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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
POSITIVE
SELF-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 Skier
PSIA 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.
“… (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."
Tammy Dianda,
World Champion
Powerlifter
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 PERFORMANCE
EXPERIENCE
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 in
Oct. 1990"
David Wood, NBA
What is the Peak Performance
State?
PEAK PERFORMANCE
STATE
“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
ENABLED BY:
NEEDED:
Voluntary
The Relaxation
Relaxation
Response
The
Mental
Ideosensory
Rehearsal
Capacity
Cognitive
The Ideomotor
Restructuring
Capacity
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