Critical perceptions for optimal performance in sport

Abstract

In a sports psychology practice clients frequently ask the question:
Where is a proper or effective starting point to make a significant change in my life or to improve performance? In these kinds of questions you can detect a curiosity and search for a starting point or a foundation from which you can orientate yourself and explain the world around you. Perceptions can be the most profound starting point to introduce significant changes in your life. When you are working with perceptions, you are working with core mental adjustments that can change an individual's universe in seconds and can lead to a total re-alignment of mental capacity. Staples underlines the power of perceptions by stating: ‘Individual perception is all-encompassing and all-powerful. How you perceive the world defines for you the environment you live in.

Continuing Medical Education Vol. 26 (7) 2008: pp. 328-330