Essays on Mental Training

The Effect of Attentional Focus on Hurdle Athletes Motor

Running Retention Area of Focus It is a common belief held by most beginner athletes that physical training is all it takes to win an athletic competition, be it swimming, skiing, hurdles, mountain climbing or golfing. Most athletes spend much of their time training to condition the body with the objective of being able to handle competition. Notable athletes such as Bolt, the 100 meter runner, and the fastest man recorded on the planet, is well endowed in masculine structure attained over time training. Therefore, is that all it takes? Emerging studies are approaching athleticism from a new and ...

Taoist practice of psychic self-regulation has essentially solved the same task of ordering the mind as the Confucian culture. Confucianism and Taoism are quite closely related, although this is a relationship of antipodes and the unity of opposites.

Similarities in Taoism and Confucianism

Mental functions of a person must be trained and “educated” in a certain way, changing them in a particular direction. Before proceeding to any business, especially such an important and responsible as management of other people, first of all you must “learn to control yourself”, i.e. your psyche. “The root” of successes and failures should be primarily searched in yourself. The ...

In the beginning of his first topic of discussion Inner Values in an Age of Science, he is expressing how you do not solely need to rely on the blessings of something there is also the action that is needed to be taken. Although he does still value blessings and prayers, they are just psychological benefits for everyone religious or not. He continues to compare prayer to modern science. Prayer does not come close to the success stories from modern medicine, for instance, he explains how you can pray for all kinds of things but medicine advances are what ...

Introduction

The ‘yips’ is a term used in sports to describe a transient loss of fine motor skills due to various causes. Although the major etiology is unknown, many researchers attribute it to a psychological and neurological cause. It is a reversible condition which has lead to the end of many sports careers due to poor performance (Vonbrock 50). In golf, it is referred to as a movement disorder that usually impedes with putting. This is because it leads to twitching, jerking and loss of concentration that leads to missing of short putts in golf (Cullen 56).

Many researchers have attributed the condition to biochemical ...