Archery Mental Mastery: Archery Mental Mastery is a program designed to help you harness your own inner potential to allow archers to develop a winning mind-set. by Adam Cowming

Author:Adam Cowming
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Adam Cowming
Published: 2014-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

Exercise: Spinning Anxiety

This first exercise is called “Spinning Anxiety”. This is a cool exercise!

It is sometimes best with the exercise to read them first or get someone to help. I used to record them and then play them back to myself.

1. Think of a situation that makes you feel that feeling of anxiety?

2. Focus on the feeling of anxiety in your body. 3. If you could score it from 1 being low to 10 being high, what is that feeling now?

4. Use your imagination for this next question. If that feeling had a colour, what colour would that be?

5. Now change the colour to one you find relaxing or soothing.

6. Is the feeling moving in any way? I’ve found that they can spin or turn in a certain way. Just concentrate for a moment on that feeling.

7. If the feeling is moving start to slow it down by half.

8. Slow it down until it stops then make it turn in the opposite direction.

9. Think about the shape of the feeling now.

10.Start to shrink the shape down by half.

11.Shrink it again by half, then down to the size of a garden pea.

12.Imagine pushing that pea out of your body so you can see it in front of you.

13.Now fire the pea off into the distance so it’s gone completely, you may want to imagine it burning up in the sun.

14. Open your eyes just for a moment.

15.Close your eyes and notice what that feeling is like now from 1 to 10?

If you found this hard to imagine or do just try it again, it may take a few goes but you will be able to do the exercise, it is just a matter of you using your powerful mind!

Another thing that may help is listening to a favourite bit of music and notice what happens to the anxiety then. Normally it will start to reduce because you have anchored good feeling already to a bit of music.

So what is anchoring?

I may have mentioned a few times but here is the basic thought behind it.

You may have heard of Pavlovian conditioning, or maybe Pavlov's dogs. Ivan Pavlov's work found that you could associate a stimulus such as a bell to a response such as salivation in dogs. By presenting food and at the same time as ringing the bell the dogs anchored the ringing sound to eating. It works the same with music, put your favourite tune on and it can bring back good feelings or memories that are anchored in your unconscious mind to that sound. On the other hand if you don’t like the dentist and they ring you to remind you it’s time for your annual check-up, if you are like me, my heart goes up a few beats. I’ve anchored a stressed state to the dentist. When I’m there I’m fine but the thought of going is not very appealing! So as you can see even I get caught out sometimes.

The basic thoughts behind it are that we can anchor powerful and positive states to music or even to an object like your bow, for example.

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