It's just a feeling, and we create mental images from these and then it becomes real. It's a feeling. I know I am a therapist and I should honor feelings more and if you ruin my office as a therapy patient, I would honor your feelings, but only to a point because it's only a feeling.
You should always bring the CEO of your company into play, the CEO. What you feel, think about it, figure it out, process that feeling and then do what you need to do because it's only a feeling. It's not something that has to be honored or yielded to especially while you are performing athletics, right? It will get in your way.
Feelings are thoughts. What thoughts do you want in your head? Good ones? Can you control the thoughts that come in? I am going to state that a little differently. I can't control if I have a feeling because certain things are going to set off certain feelings in me, and I can't control if I have a thought, I mean if a thought comes in and I don't like the thought, I obviously couldn't stop it, could I from coming in. But once it enters, I can take control over that thought and over that feeling. And so the sooner you can dial into different thoughts and different feelings and then lose them, the better off you are going to be, and the more you are going to be able to focus on what you need to do. So how do you do that?
Well, sit back right now and we are going to do an exercise. We are going to close your eyes. We are going to take only a minute, but I will describe the exercises differently later. And the only thought that I want you to have is of your breath. I want you to concentrate on your breath. So just breathe and concentrate on your breath, and experience where does your breath come from? Is it a shallow breath emanating from the chest? Is it a slightly deeper breath coming from your belly? Is it a really full breath coming from the lower part of your belly?
As you breathe in and as you breathe out, are there any hitches in your breath? It doesn't matter if there are hitches. We have hitches lots of times. They are not good, they are not bad. They are just hitches. Just concentrate on that breath.
Any thoughts that start to come in? Say, oh, you are just a thought; you are not invited at this time. I am going to think of my breath and go back to your breath.
When you are ready, slowly, slowly come on back. And if you are to walk out this room right now and we were done, and you took that exercise for five minutes, three times a day at a prescribed time everyday, not like, oh, I need to do this three times a day. Oh, damn, I didn't do this today, at a prescribed time the same way; you have prescribed times for the rest of your workouts. If you did that, you would start to control what's in your mind and how you feel.
And I am going to assume because I have done this a lot, that you will feel relaxed. It's the simple things that bring your body into regulation, that bring you to a relaxed state and when you are relaxed, you are clearer. There is less kind of running around, less static and you could just move on.
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