Achieving outstanding Performance in Professional Sport.

Have you ever observed how elite sports men and woman achieve outstanding results, and then asked yourself… what makes them so different to those who fail to achieve a similar level of high performance?

The Sub Conscious Mind is the storehouse of all experiences, feelings, actions, re-actions and emotions. When a person decides to become an elite sports person, the Sub Conscious Mind will use all the past experiences that surround the actions of their chosen sport as reference points. Included in these experiences will be all of the successes, and all of the failures.

Throughout one’s lifetime, whenever you are placed in a position of decision making, the Sub Conscious Mind will draw upon all similar experiences to help the brain to make the most effective decisions. Within these past experiences there will be an array of consequences of all the ineffective, and the effective decisions that have been made during sporting activity.

For an Elite Sports Person to achieve their desire of Peak Performance in their chosen sport, they must be able to make decisions which are unconnected to their past experiences of mistakes.

If a Sports Person has been through a period where they have under-performed, then the Sub Conscious Mind will draw on those experiences as a first priority, and then on all other performances, next. This happens because most under-performances involve mistakes, and the Brain always instructs the Sub Conscious to deliver mistakes first, as a key survival mechanism. This is part of a human’s programming.

The Brain is programmed to learn from mistakes, which is important for a person’s emotional wellbeing. In the decision making process, there is often only a short time period between the decision being made and the resultant action being taken. This time period could be anywhere between 10 seconds and 4 minutes.

So for an Elite Sports Person, whose decision making process lies within a range of between 2 seconds and 20 seconds, there is insufficient time to process consciously, all of the data that can be delivered by the Sub Conscious Mind.

With the capacity of the Brain to process information running 0.05 seconds slower than the Sub Conscious, and with a reaction time that is slower than the action that is to be  made, it is little wonder that Elite Sports people experience high levels of frustration in their quest to maintain Peak Performance.

For an Elite Sports person to maintain a high level of performance, requires their Sub Conscious to draw only on those experiences that have produced successful results. In achieving this, the Brain will then only receive data that supports decisions that have emanated from successful experiences.