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Introduction to Mental Imagery

Introduction to Mental Imagery. Coach Doron. Agenda. Definition Actual mental imagery exercise Research Notes Homefun. Mental Imagery Definition. What is it? A form of simulation with as much sensory experience but the entire experience occurs in the mind. Mental Imagery Script.

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Introduction to Mental Imagery

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  1. Introduction to Mental Imagery Coach Doron

  2. Agenda • Definition • Actual mental imagery exercise • Research • Notes • Homefun

  3. Mental Imagery Definition • What is it? • A form of simulation with as much sensory experience but the entire experience occurs in the mind

  4. Mental Imagery Script • Let’s try one out! • Get comfortable and here we go…

  5. Why is Mental Imagery Useful? • Allows you to go through positive experiences before you actually do it • Improves concentration • Builds confidence • Controls emotional responses – • against cheap shots – how will you react? Will you try and play into their game and allow them to pull you off of yours or will you be patient

  6. Why is Mental Imagery Useful? • Practice improving a skill • Recovering from injury

  7. Types of Imagery • Internal Imagery: Imagine the execution of a skill from your own perspective • External ImageryView yourself from the perspective of an external observer (camera’s perspective) • Better to do internal imagery 80% vs. external imagery 20%

  8. Coach Doron’s Top 10 Guides to Effective Mental Imagery • Use all the senses • 10) Hear • 9) Eyes (most important of the senses but it is important to experience the others) • 8) Feel • 7) Taste • 6) Sound • Acronym HEFTS (Heart, Effort, Focused, Trust, Sacrifice)

  9. Coach Doron’s Top 10 Guides to Effective Mental Imagery • 5) Vivid pictures (the more vivid the better) • 4) Use more internal perspective 80% vs. external perspective 20% • 3) Use real time (1 second = 1 second) • 2) It is not practice makes perfect but rather perfect practice makes perfection • 1) 100% positive! Expect nothing less

  10. Homefun  • 100 words as a team; send me an email if you are not added to the google document • Tell me what it means to be a Panther • Write 150-200 words of your own mental imagery script • Begin with the feeling of being in the middle of your own room • Pay attention to detail and Doron’s Top 10 list • Practice at least once and write the date and time; score yourself 0 (poor) -10 (excellent) • Hand it in next meeting • We will then work on a sport specific script.

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