Question - Is your body controlled by your brain?
Yet few people consider that if their mind is better conditioned, their body will function more efficiently. Effective performance psychology support can facilitate significant performance improvement through
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"Unleash Your Potential"
Keith Begley is a member of the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES) and an Accredited Performance Psychology Consultant with the Irish Sport and Exercise Science Association ISESA.
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Numerous accounts of high profile athlete's suffering from depression have surfaced in recent times. This openness and honesty is both refreshing and healthy as it normalises issues that affects the majority of families at some level in some shape or form. Previously, people suffered in silence, almost ashamed to reveal their reality to the people...
The nervousness started the night before the game. A former team-mate, with whom he shared a room in the early stages of his career, once called his attention to it. "He said he did everything he could to try to fall asleep before me. Before games, my right foot would twitch so hard that the entire duvet would rustle....
Let The Kids Play
He stands there in his jersey, fulfilling all his dreams, Representing club and family, and he is on the team. The ball thrown in, the game is on, there is movement all around, Some parents shouting frantically, as the ball's played up and down.
In a recent post on All-Black culture, I discussed some of the value systems that have been put in place. The All-Black culture puts the needs of the team above that of all individuals. The challenge is for each individual to leave the jersey in a better place than they found it – to add value to it.
