Posts Tagged ‘ anger ’

By Dr. Stephen E. Walker, PhD, CC-AASP Have you ever wondered how your thinking might influence your physical health, performance or well-being? In the second quarter issue of 2005, research was presented by Dr. Alan Rozanski in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology focused on developments in the field of Behavioral Cardiology....
More »

By Dr. Stephen Walker – CC-AASP “The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember.” – Mark Twain Athletes in every sport will from time to time lose focus, become self-conscious, have self-doubts to contend with and worry about things. It happens in every sport but especially in mentally challenging...
More »

Jeffrey Bond, former head of the Sport Psychology Department at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, has coined a term for the reckless behavior by many professional athletes: pedestal syndrome. In an issue of The Sporting Mind, Bond describes pedestal syndrome in detail. His article starts on page 6 of this PDF. In...
More »

Nigel Pond of the UK wrote this article on the benefits of hypnotherapy in sport. It mainly uses golf as an example but the general ideas apply to much more than golf. The author breaks down the essence of the mind game into four sections: before sport, during sport, the “in between” and after...
More »

Here’s an article by Marvin Zauderer that appeared in Pez Cycling News on managing emotions.
More »