Mental Practice V

The Mental Practice book series evolved out of Dr. Chandon's experience coaching athletes. He found that athletes develop in their mental games in predictable stages. The speed of their development depends on how vigorously they apply themselves in their mental practices, physical practices and competitions. When motivated athletes are open to learning, practicing the right things in the right sequences and in the right ways, they rapidly progress.

The Mental Practice series reflects the ideas of progressive development modeled by the martial arts. Mental Practice I-X have different color covers to signify that they are modeled after martial arts development and the wearing of different color belts. The different color belts in the martial arts indicate mastery levels of the students and teachers.

The Mental Practice book covers are yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, black and red. As you develop in your mastery of each book, you earn that color "belt" in Mental Practice. You'll find that as you progress through the books, you'll be challenged to use your imaginative and creative abilities more. Imagination and creativity are key components of a well-developed mental practice.

Mental Practice V includes separate and expanded chapters on Confidence and Motivation. In addition, you'll have additional mental practices on leadership power words, mental toughness power words, champion power words, and health power words. You also learn how to deal with negative spirals, energy and body movement, all emotions being good, dieting well, what we way matters, and what to do when you struggle.

The most significant barriers to success, breakthroughs and the fulfillment of our potential are ourselves. Life and sports provide us with an unending amount of challenges. How we respond to our internal and external challenges is the essential part of whether we ultimately succeed or fail. The key isn't whether we have success or failures, what matters most is how we choose to understand them, learn from them, and keep moving forward. Life and sports can subtly erode our confidence, skill and motivation unless we are actively working to build them.

This book gives you a powerful way of working on your mental approach to athletic performance. The essence of a strong mental approach or" mental game" is when we correctly manage our thinking, emotions, and physical body in ways that work the best for us as individuals. We do that by regularly working on improving our mental game. We mentally practice.

The individual mental practices are grouped by topics.

Mental ToughnessDeveloping Mental SkillsBeing a ChampionHandling ChallengesPlanning for SuccessBeing HealthyTraining WellConfidenceMotivationBeing a LeaderBeing a Free SpiritDesigning Your SanctuaryMental Practice RetreatsEach mental practice has some reflections for you to consider and unique "Power Words" after the reflections. Power words are a simple sentence, phrase or individual words that you use to engage your imagination and help you focus as you mentally practice, physically train and compete.

See how good you can be.