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PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEAK PERFORMANCE

Gary A. Beale, Ph.D.

Sierra Center for Peak Performance

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.

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?

BASIC PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

I. Positive Self-Esteem

II. Success Identity

III. Sequential Analysis

Skills

IV. Self Discipline

POSITIVESELF-ESTEEM

The recognition of one's own worth as a person and a favorable attitude towards one's self

SUCCESS IDENTITY

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

SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS SKILLS

The ability to solve problems through

the selection of alternative strategies

SELF DISCIPLINE

Guiding one’s own behavior from an internal locus of control

“… Thanks to Dr. Beale, I now have the tools of mental focus and relaxation on my side!"

David Mannetter, Professional SkierPSIA Alpine Demonstration Team

THE PEAK PERFORMANCE CONCEPT

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.

Tammy Dianda, World Champion Powerlifter

“… (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."

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?

PEAK PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

I. Mentally Relaxed

II. Physically Relaxed

III. Confident/Optimistic

IV. Focused on the Present

PEAK PERFORMANCEEXPERIENCE

V. Highly Energized

VI. Extraordinary Awareness

VII. In Control

VIII. In the Cocoon

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.

"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

What is the Peak Performance State?

PEAK PERFORMANCESTATE

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

SKILLS NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THE IDEAL STATE

I. Voluntary Relaxation

II. Mental Rehearsal

III. Cognitive Restructuring

BASIC SKILLS NEEDED:

ENABLED BY:

Voluntary Relaxation

The Relaxation Response

Mental Rehearsal

The Ideosensory Capacity

Cognitive Restructuring

The Ideomotor Capacity

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