Ahead of the Game: How to Use Your Mind to Win in Sport by Jeremy Lazarus

Author:Jeremy Lazarus [Lazarus, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The Lazarus Consultancy Ltd
Published: 2014-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

Keys To Doing Mental Rehearsal

Introduction

Let’s move on to how to do mental rehearsal, and some tips to enhance what you do.

Before we begin, it’s important to note that there is no definitive way to visualise or rehearse mentally. Everyone is different. If you have found a technique or an approach which gives you the results you want, keep doing it! However, if you have not yet found a way which works for you, or if you want to make what you do even better and are willing to be flexible, then this section may offer you some tips. Remember, if you experiment and it doesn’t help the situation, you can always revert to what you were doing!

Also, I sometimes hear people say that they are not very good at visualising anything – the picture they get is not very clear. There are two points I would like to make about that.

Firstly, how clear would you expect the pictures to be? If they were as clear as the ones that you have right now as you are reading the book, how would you tell the difference between what was real and what was imagined!

Secondly, most of us have a preferred representational system (visual, auditory or kinaesthetic), unless we are equally as comfortable using all three. Around 40 percent of people have visual as their preferred representational system. This does not mean that the other 60 percent cannot visualise, it means that they may possibly find it more difficult to visualise than to hear sounds or feel feelings. We will touch on and discuss what you can do if you or people you coach find it challenging to visualise.

The rest of this section will cover how to do some of the aspects of mental rehearsal and then will pull it together and explain the processes involved. The first key aspects are association and dissociation.

Association and Dissociation

When we mentally rehearse, we can either be:

‘associated’ or

‘dissociated’

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