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Concrete content for anyone looking to get better. This community is for people who want to grow themselves, and grow the game. We know the game of baseball teaches us so many valuable life lessons!
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Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Bio
- Mental Skills Coordinator for the Baltimore Orioles
- Licensed mental health professional
- Was the mental skills coach for the University of Rochester men's soccer team
- Masters Degree in counseling and sports psychology at Boston University
- Played soccer and graduated from University of Rochester
Show Notes
- Weekly skill focused
- Monday mindfulness
- Friday guest speakers
- How to teach the mental skills
- What the mental skill is
- Example
- Exercises
- Incorporate the skill within a game/activity
- Homework related to baseball and in everyday life
- A lot of skills can be taught and helpful outside of the game
- Switching to scenarios (responses)
- Preparing for adversity that is going to happen and plan for our response
- Having a deep breath and helps them to reset
- Kicking the dirt to reset and breath to get back to compete
- Identifying your growth mindset voice and fixed mindset voice
- Self talk
- Triggers - coach yelling, good pitcher (to find a trigger do a daily checklist of when you were fixed or open to find reoccurring events)
- Trying new skills - “neuroplasticity”
- Recurring theme is self awareness - if you are not aware of yourself we can’t make changes
- Daily notebook/journal reflecting on the day and how they are successful
- “Ideal” mindset to incorporate self awareness
- When you are playing your best versus not playing your best, and then attack skills and build behaviors to get you closer to playing at your best
- Mental routines part of the players plan to know the player
- “Not thinking” may be a bodily feeling (relaxed, pre game routine, etc)
- What happens when your routine gets messed up? Have a response!
- Why are you doing the routine? Own the routine, not just do it because someone says
- Mindfulness and being aware in the moment of what you can and cannot control have helped beyond
- Mindfulness meditations to help be in the moment and be aware. Guided and practiced
- Around 10 minutes of guided meditation
- Started with the coaches and then the players to get buy in
- Give real life examples as to why mindfulness is so important.
- Golf
- Driving and thinking where you are going not where you are
- Examples in their game/area
- Guided deep breathing visuals on Youtube
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