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This Is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!
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9 minute read
Published May 2, 2011
What you'll learn
When we think of traumatic incidents, we think of near-fatal car accidents and natural disasters. But there is a demographic that is also unknowingly suffering from the effects of trauma: athletes. Placed in high-pressure, sometimes dangerous situations, athletes often endure physical and emotional traumas that wreck performance on a consistent basis. This Is Your Brain on Sports explores the issue of trauma and what can be done about it. It’s useful not just for athletes and coaches, but for anyone who is looking to understand how trauma works.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Whether athletes realize it or not, Repetitive Sports Performance Problems is a condition that plagues many of them.
- 2 The fight-flight-freeze response in animals is the key to understanding trauma.
- 3 Trauma in sports can be physical or emotional, a hit or near miss, first- or second-hand.
- 4 Coaches and parents exacerbate performance issues by making performance the ultimate determinant of value.
- 5 Traumatic experiences are those that are crystalized and lodged in the subconscious, which the brain fails to properly integrate into memory.
- 6 Brainspotting is an innovative new way of locating and untangling the athlete’s trauma source through observing eye movement.
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