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  3. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEAK PERFORMANCE Gary A. Beale, Ph.D. Sierra Center for Peak Performance

  4. This slide show represents the visual elements from a Continuing Education seminar presented in Seattle Washington on October 26, 2000 at the Tukwila Embassy Suites Hotel by Dr. Gary A. Beale of the Sierra Center for Peak Performance.

  5. If we could engineer an ideal athlete, what psychosocial personality characteristics would we need to include to assure that this person would be maximally productive?

  6. BASIC PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS • Positive Self-Esteem • Success Identity • Sequential Analysis Skills • Self Discipline

  7. POSITIVESELF-ESTEEM The recognition of one's own worth as a person and a favorable attitude towards one's self

  8. SUCCESS IDENTITY The ability to identify with the successes in one's life and believing that a successful experience is possible and likely

  9. SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS SKILLS The ability to solve problems through the selection of alternative strategies

  10. SELF DISCIPLINE Guiding one’s own behavior from an internal locus of control

  11. “… Thanks to Dr. Beale, I now have the tools of mental focus and relaxation on my side!"David Mannetter, Professional SkierPSIA Alpine Demonstration Team

  12. An ideal state of mind exists for each of us that is conducive to our own best performance. We can learn what this state of mind is and how to bring it on. THE PEAK PERFORMANCE CONCEPT

  13. “… (In) my next world Powerlifting competition I set the World record in the bench press. Thank You Dr. Beale for the dream of a lifetime." Tammy Dianda, World Champion Powerlifter

  14. When we ask the best athletes in the world what they experience when they are performing at their best, what elements do they report as being present?

  15. PEAK PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE I. Mentally Relaxed II. Physically Relaxed III. Confident/Optimistic IV.Focused on the Present

  16. PEAK PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE V. Highly Energized VI. Extraordinary Awareness VII. In Control VIII. In the Cocoon

  17. Have you experienced all or any of these feelings when you were performing at your best? We all can learn the skills needed to induce these types of feelings when we perform or compete.

  18. "You were the first one to ever teach me about visualization and relaxation, and it helped my free throw shooting tremendously...I lead the NBA in free throw shooting inOct. 1990" David Wood, NBA

  19. What is the Peak Performance State?

  20. “The Zone”, “Flow State” or “Peak Performance State” can be thought of as an altered state of consciousness. PEAK PERFORMANCESTATE

  21. I. Voluntary Relaxation II. Mental Rehearsal III. Cognitive Restructuring SKILLS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THE IDEAL STATE

  22. End of Part I of III Click here for Part II

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