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Category: Science

Sports Psychology Applied in Daily Life – Part 2: Imagination Is Your Reality

I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

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Our Beaches in the Wake of Gabrielle

There was a wonderful event at the start of June on Wharekaho Beach. The community turned out in good numbers to help replant the dune after the devastation caused by cyclone Gabrielle. Happy, cheerful people, not complaining about the damage, or the fact that we may lose some of the plants we were planting to the next storm, just good people keen to join together to do their bit to help protect our beach. 

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Sports Psychology Applied in Daily Life – Part 2: Imagination Is Your Reality

I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

Read More »

Our Beaches in the Wake of Gabrielle

There was a wonderful event at the start of June on Wharekaho Beach. The community turned out in good numbers to help replant the dune after the devastation caused by cyclone Gabrielle. Happy, cheerful people, not complaining about the damage, or the fact that we may lose some of the plants we were planting to the next storm, just good people keen to join together to do their bit to help protect our beach. 

Read More »

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