The difficulties of a before or during a sports competition
Dr. Matthew SIMONE
Arnold Lazarus
that can happen before a sports competition or during the competition at a crucial moment as it may be a goal or a penalty, the athlete may have some negative feelings that considers: unpleasant, disturbing, excessive anxiety, too much stress, fear, block.
These feelings can result from several causes conscious or unconscious.
For example, the athlete can compete with athletes considered to be stronger than he can compete after an accident and do not feel safe to express themselves in an excellent performance, he may feel the pressure of some figures of his staff or persons deemed to be important for him.
What can a psychologist in these cases?
certainly not a magic wand, not the right medicine, can still implement the interventions that should be customized and follow a gradual path that can be defined as mental training.
can start doing interviews with the athlete and explore its wide-ranging experience, that is, covering both the sport and other aspects of his life that could contribute to the difficulty experienced by the athlete.
Through interviews, the psychologist and the athlete living space and their time, reserved, exclusive, derived from the trust by the athlete and the interest of the psychologist to provide himself and his professionalism available to the athlete.
At the same time, the psychologist may propose methodologies or techniques learned during his training and work experience.
The psychologist may ask the athlete first and foremost to pay attention to your feelings is in the race at that time in session, and in other circumstances of his life, for example considering the fear temporarily stops breathing, the athlete can pay attention to how is his breathing and after becoming aware of apnea may be try small changes, for example, may try to take a deep breath combining a view that can help you get a bit 'more security and put away part of anxiety is not functional yet to be overpaid and disturbing.
The display may include a benefit of the past that has given a sense of well being resulting from a victory, placement, personnel records, etc.. Or can see someone who has encouraged in the past, saying the words or sentence that has sparked security, wants to win big.
The right modulation of breathing and visualization can be part mental workout to try at the interview or during training and everything in search of a pre-race activation, which might best athlete in the experience of flow to achieve peak performance.
The athlete can achieve greater self-confidence and thus its performance even just for the fact of its being delivered to a sports psychologist, if only for having had the courage to ask for help, because this means that it is determined to do better, to succeed, to overcome a difficulty, q achieve its objectives, and that is therapeutic for him, give him strength, he knows that now will be more strong with the help of the psychologist will have a weapon more than its rivals but the fear, then the psychologist is certain to confirm their expectations and contribute to its excellence.
Another technique that the psychologist may have available is the establishment of a group of esperienzale race approach.
athletes in the group would provide a space, a time where you can compare, express difficulties, feelings, emotions, in short, a laboratory experiment where a psychologist can make to each their own time and providing the verbal expression and no record of their difficulties and try to experiment together with possible solutions through simulations and metaphors.
addition, the psychologist can observe the athlete during training and interaction with the coach or training partners to capture aspects such as facial expressions, gestures, interaction with the coach or fellow training that serve a greater knowledge of the person who wants to help and also have informal discussions with the other figures that revolve around the athlete as coaches, managers, medical staff, family, etc.. to support their feelings of guilt that can be , of powerlessness, dissatisfaction, etc.., and they may feel better certainly have a positive impact on the performance of athletes.
Before embarking on a competition, the advice is to try to imagine the largest possible that can best contribute to the success of the service, starting to see, for example, the blood that flows and circulates oxygen and nutrients and vital to all muscles and organs, see your heart, body / muscle vital, and the rest of the organs and muscles, and do almost a deal with them, encourage them to work well during the competition, it is only a view, it does not cost nothing, it does not hurt, could only serve to have a greater awareness of themselves, to have available a new way of dealing with things that we can deal with a competition, or even can be used to deal with an illness, an existential problem.
Another suggestion is to believe in what you do, be convinced of what you do, and even more important to show that they are confident when speaking with others, it is important to convey safety of themselves to others, because if, for good luck or out of habit or to prepare themselves in case of failure, others are told not to be fit, not being able to do the utmost in preparation, is likely to make people believe themselves to this and it is easier failure.
Also, consider more parts of one's whole body and try to establish a dialogue with them, find compromises, make agreements, exchange offer, for example to their legs and feet you could try to ask to make an extreme effort for that important day, promising a well-deserved rest and a massage afterwards.
These suggestions do not cost nothing, are simply suggestions of small changes that might be useful to someone, could yield better performance or any other decisions with greater awareness, maybe even decide to abandon the competition.
may also be a simple chance to enjoy themselves and how this could be extended to other occasions when we face difficult situations.
course should be tailored to achieve the best possible result.
Dr. Matthew SIMONE
Clinical Psychologist and Sports - Gestalt Psychotherapist
3804337230-3336955250 - 21163@tiscali.it
experiential group therapy
Dr. ANNA Tecchio - Dr. Matthew SIMONE
Rome - Piazza Ragusa 5 int . 20 (Tuscolana Station) 19:00 to 20:30 hours
"When we are not in touch with our needs and desires and deal with life without oars without helm. " Nathaniel Branden
What
group psychotherapy is a laboratory in which the person explores herself without fear of rejection or criticism . The psychotherapist helps the person through the group to arrive at new expressions.
Target
objectives consist in increasing people's awareness and understanding of self, in do act effectively in his environment and broadening its repertoire of answer mode to life situations.
Who is it for?
To all those interested in improving their relationship with themselves, to test how best design and operational in relation to the other.
Mode - hourly - cost
The group is held Monday at 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on a weekly basis at the study site in psychotherapy P.za Ragusa 5 int. 20 (Tuscolana station). - The cost is € 100 per month.
The group is conducted in co-therapy:
Dr. ANNA TECCO
Psychologist and integrated approach to clinical psychotherapist.
Email annatacce@tiscali.it cell. 348/2865529
Dr. Matthew SIMONE
clinical psychologist and sport. Gestalt therapy.
Email 21163@tiscali.it cell 380/4337230 www.psicologiadellosport.net
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