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This is a great topic and I would love to hear how people are working imagery and postive thinking into their performance. I have been using visualization since I was downhill racing in high school- back during the era of the "inner game". I found that visualization of tough gate sequences really worked well on the actual performance. I think it was about a year ago there was a big article in the New York Times that discussed the physical effects of visualization. Sets of athletes were compared by pet scan- on group actively trained, I believe one group actively trained, another used training and visualization and a third visualized only. The group using both improved the most as far as muscles fibers actively firing (and I believe getting stronger), however, the visualization group was fairly close to the training only group. I used a lot of imagary and visualization while recovering from my recent major injury- and in some of my sports I have already seen improvement as compared to last season or pre- injury.
I have also used self hypnosis while competing to change perception of discomfort. Starting the third day of a stage canoe race I had a severe case of tendonitis in my shoulder- every time I lifted my arm it felt like I was being stabbed with a knife. Advil didn't touch it and I wasn't going to let my partner (or myself) down by quitting. By using self-hypnosis (I have training in hypnotherapy) I changed the perception of the pain to that of heat by visualizing a warm bucket of water running down my shoulder each time I paddled on that side. It worked- my mind used the gate theory of pain (where you can feel heat or pain at one time but not both).
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