The sympathetic nervous system can accelerate your heart rate, widens your bronchial passages and constricts your blood vessels. In one study, participants who told themselves, iam excited before something in anxiety provoking sistently outshone those who lied about their state of mind. So if you can't beat it, join it. Just say, i'm excited before you're scared. And then we use em different routines for perform s when they're preparing for a performance.
Sweaty palms before a date. Racing heart during a presentation. Needing a diaper while delivering a wedding toast. We've all been there. On the heels of New Year's resolutions, sports & performance psychologist Dr. Sari Shepphird explains confidence vs. performance anxiety, the origins of perfectionism, how much social media is too much, self-sabotoage and also dishes on strategies that athletes use to perform under pressure. Also: why you should holler the F word when you're nervous, why being authentic is always the best policy and the perils of professional darts.
Dr. Shepphird is at sportandperform.com
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