Emotions are tied to our thinking in different ways, in regard to performance emotions can be a powerful ally in the stream of adversity. When we perform, often what happens is that people evaluate what is going on, the result achived is measured and compared to a expected result.
Now, our thinking can be perfect, but our performance even if wanted seldom is perfect.
We strive for perfection.
Its in our genes.
Or brain if you like.
This is why people feel anxiety, worry or are nervous before a competition, they make mental images based on expected results that are matched against beliefs we have about the performance we are about to do and what that performance will lead to, the result.
This is very emotinal based, they link to our beliefs and subsequently our states in performance are tied into a context.
This context are twofold, one is the one we engage into and the other is what we have inside our mind. We have created small links that in some ways tell us how to respond to in a particular situation based again on our beliefs and criteria of expected result, when this are met we can react positivly or negativly or not at all.
We react with emotions.
This is tied into our learning brain based system, our brain needs emotions to learn, its also simple but highly effective directed charges of information for our brain to respond to.
If the emotion is strong enough it creates a unique learning experience, in NLP this is called an anchor.
The anchor never subside but shows up its ugly face or happy face depending on what we have attached to this anchor and learning experience, we might have formed beliefs about this event.
Micheal Jordan learned to play at his best when he got the ball at the end and nailed it and his team won. Then he wasnt afraid when it got seconds left due to him now, wanted the ball, he had a positive learning experience, he then re-inforced that with beliefs about him performing at the best at the end and he wanted the ball.
He connected his experience under enormus pressure to define a belief connected to this last minute performance.
He now had the ability to in this context just hook it up, feeling he wanted the ball, that he could get it in, waiting for the moment, and had all positive lined up for him.
Now, many think that feelings of peak performance are random, just something that happens from time to time.
What I am suggesting is that you can by design set this up, connect and hook all up in such a way you be performing at your level as you want in the context you set it up with, at any time and under any circumstances.
Moe Norman had the "Feeling of Greatness" when he woke up, he knew he would hit the ball better than anybody on the planet.
As a golfer he shot 59, 3 times under competition, he set numerous course records.
This is what emotions do to us, they become such positive forces if done properly. However emotions can destory a life in seconds due to improper care.
A guard was stabbed to death beacuse he did a intervention between two people, the guy cutting him down said, he laughed at me. He had just smiled to calm the guy but the guy in his state saw him laughing at him and stabbed him.
The guy who stabbed obviously coulndt make a judgement call due to seeing someone laugh at him, most likely due to a bad experience in his early ages and sad enough couldnt handle his emotions and killed someone.
This was after his team had lost their match in the world cup 1998.
Emotions with proper beliefs, tied into the state we want to have when performing allow a positive peak performance to take place.
We know what state we want to have how we want to feel and experience the performance and has this set up in the way we want.
This also means, we dont need to wait for peak performances to happen, we can get them whenever we want.
We can choose to design and set this up and I use the future based performance in how to do it.
I choosed a belief in how to play golf, I adressed the way I want to play the golf I want, the state, then adding basically important findings into this, as skills I need to have to meet the requirements needed to play the level I set up.
Then practice takes place, reinforcing this emotinally, feeling this, measuring that it works, refine it, until it works automatically.
Basically it follows the steps of,
1. Set a belief about future performance matched with evidence of factual events.
This means, the level I want to have can be measured agaisnt the best who perform in that area and the statistical data can be used to measure my performance and improvement.
Since I got the belief set up, with performance under factual evidence the next step is to choose the way I want to play.
2. Set the state you want to have when you perform.
This means we need to access in our experience what this feels like, inside out. We need to have it, holding it inside our body looking out, seeing our percepetions shift, feeling it and even hearing things differently due to this state of experience first hand.
If your perception do not shift when entering a peak performance state, your not in the state.
Your still thinking about it.
3. Add whatever needed into this belief and state and define the contextual parameters where you be performing from this state.
Stuff as knowledge, skills, refined movement, adjusting emotions make them stronger, sorting out unwanted stuff that might crept into old performances etc...
- When the beliefs are set future based on factual level of performance, the states have been elicited and linked with the beliefs and the additions of skills and emotions and other stuff set in a contextual parameters are made we can consiously be aware of entering the state, have our evidence of being in the state, exploring how it affects our perception and adjust on this new experience how it affect our performance.
- Performing under practice and competition should be the same. This means, for you there should be no difference between going out and practice or entering a competition, there is no difference unless we set a difference.
- You might perform slightly better under competition however due to increased positive emotions added to enjoy the level of performance you now have so it re-inforces itself when entering competitions.
You then practice this until you automatically just enter the wanted performance level when you need to. Just checking that you got this and then just perform. If loosing this due to unforseen circumstances does not matter since you also know how to get back into the performance state.
All adjustments should be done after practice and competition, at bedtime or when time permits, adjusting based on new evidence and experience.
This will allow a continious improvement over time for your performance.
Emotions are an ally when used positivly, reinforcing this level of performance, you know before your going out there in whatever you do that you be doing your absolut best this day, that you be able to perform at the highest level with expected results time after time again and again.
This creates feelings of joy, happiness, confidence, selfworth and other positive ones due to you are building on a positive formula and feedback.
For me, I discovered when entering the above process that I felt excited and also found that Golf would be a much easier and simpler game this time due to properly knowing what to do and how to get it done.
I still need to make the time for practice and summer cant come soon enough.
I am motivated, not just to play but to practice the skills I need to have to be able to compete at the level I want to do.
Easier and faster than ever before.
Enjoy
/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP
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