The Power of Affirmation

Doctor charles garfield has done extensive research on peak performers, both in athletics and in business. One of the main things his research showed was that almost all world class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. If you visualize the wrong thing, you'll produce the wrong thing. I have helped and encouraged my son, shawn, to use this affirmation process extensively throughout his football career. We would try to get him in a very relaxed state of mind through deep breathing and a progressive muscle relaxation technique. Then i would help him visualize himself right in the heat of the toughest situations imaginable. At one point in his football career, he told me he was constantly getting up tight. As we