Alia Crum, PhD | Harnessing the Power of Your Mind
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The Power of Visualization in Sport Psychology
In gymnastics, we learned that visualization is critical to be able to learn and perform a new skill. There's been some research showing that if you can visualize, like shooting basket balls, for example, or putting or swinging a golf club,. That can help physically prepare your body to do the same motion that you've been practising mentally. I think actually this was one reason why i moved a little bit away from studying just the art of visualization to thinking about other things that might go on mentally. The work that we do is studying what we call mind sets. So they are these like default states of the mind that leads you to act in certain ways, think in certain ways., notice
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