Relax!
Mental training can take care of all of
these for you, quickly and easily.
Basketball,
being a particularly fast sport, allows little
time for conscious thinking while you
are playing in the heat of a game - and this means
many actions are performed on auto-pilot,
using muscle-memory and experience.
All
of these movements are controlled by your powerful
subconscious mind, which
contains all your basketball memories,
knowledge and experience -
and as most champions know, is the power
behind most great performances.
I
am a mental trainer who has worked with a vast
number of athletes, teams, coaches and sports,
from all over the world for the past few decades
and I have worked with basketball players and
coaches many times to boost their competition
performances, and deal with various issues and
challenges they encounter.
Regardless
of the position you play, your subconscious mind
is generally responsible for all your
best performances on court. Sometimes
you may even click into "The Zone"
- the mental state which
delivers the highest pinnacle of basketball performance.
When
you are in the zone, everything flows instinctively
- you feel like you "cannot miss".
The
subconscious is an amazingly powerful mechanism
which works almost exactly the same way as a computer
- and it knows exactly what you need
to succeed on court, every single time
you go out there.
Unfortunately,
as many intermediate basketballers know too well,
our conscious mind often does not allow this to
happen.
It
often takes command of your performance and overrides
the powerful subconscious - and this is
usually responsible for any our worst
performances on court.
This
can create a program within our internal computer
which can sabotage our game, affect our
confidence, cause missed opportunities, slumps
in form, etc etc - which often continue
to happen over and over againuntil we
deal with it.
This
has been the cause of most problems for players
around the world, and often happens during
the pressure of a big game, rather than
in practice.
Initially,
most players just assume that more and
more training will fix this - but the
only permanent way to ensure success is
to work at the very source of your 'basketball
control-center', your subconscious mind.
The
mind controls the body, not the other way around.
So
when we add mental training to our physical
training using powerful techniques like visualization
- it helps us to break through the barriers
and move to the next level.
It
also helps us to create a mindset
of success - an expectation and inner belief
that you will perform strongly each time
you take to the court.
When
mental training is used correctly, it delivers
consistently strong results in players of all
levels, every single time.