The Mental Game of Baseball: Will Smith’s Secrets
Looking for the real keys to success in baseball?
Look outside of baseball. It frees your mind. Enables you to move past the barriers that are holding you back.
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White Sox Scandal: Get Your RAS in Gear for Better Baseball Coaching!
It’s 8:07am and I’m slowly getting steamed.
Angelina (3) is crying in the back seat.
She doesn’t want to get out of the car and go into her day
care.
And I can’t find her black socks.
“I KNOW I put the dang black socks right in the front seat
with me when we left.”
But they are no where to be found.
Very frustrating, but having done a nice morning practice
where I center myself and connect emotionally to who I want
to be/am, I don’t totally lose it.
So I punt on the socks and solve the tears buy challenging
Angelina to a race to the front door.
Off she goes… (and as always, she beats me.)
Returning to my car, I sit down, move the dog off the
console, and what do you think I saw sitting there in plain
site?
Angelina’s WHITE socks.
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Reticular Activating System!
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I was so stuck on the idea that her socks where black (my
son’s are today, that’s where it came from) that the shiny
white socks jumping up and down, calling my name didn’t
register on my conscious mind.
Does that make me an idiot?
No, it means the part of my brain called the Reticular
Activating System is working well.
The “RAS” helps us filter the infinite stimuli that come
into our senses all day. As I understand it, we tell it
what to look for and it filters everything coming in with
that in mind.
I told it to look for black socks and it correctly didn’t
find any.
“SO WHAT?”
So this is as big as it gets: We see what we want to see.
Another way to say RAS is “attitude.” Your mood, “vibe,”
and overall happiness are determined by what you are
looking for.
Are you looking for what’s good or what’s bad?
What works or what doesn’t work?
What’s possible or what’s always happened?
What you’re grateful for or how you’re getting hosed?
How much you deserve success or how you’re a total loser?
Whatever you’re looking for you find.
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How we set our RAS to determines the very nature of our
lives.
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So choose wisely today. The holiday’s encourage us to press
“re-set” in our minds as to what’s important and what’s
wise to set our RAS to.
The typical player/person let’s chance set their RAS.
The fulfilled person sets his/her RAS very deliberately.
Choose,
Tom Hanson, Ph.D.
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How to Bring Back That Winning Feeling
Bring back, that winning feelin
Woah, that winning feelin
Bring back that winning feelin
Cause it’s gone,gone,gone wooooooh
– with apologies to the Righteous Brothers
As a baseball guy, I like to watch other sports for tips on baseball coaching, mental toughness, and confidence.
I watched Apollo Ono win the 500m short track speed skating gold in the last Winter Olympics.
I could see the electricity rocket through his system after he crossed the line. Fists clenched, arm muscles fired, and a primal yell erupting from just above that ridiculous patch of hair on his chin.
We can only imagine what that winning feelin’ is like.
But you know, that’s not so bad.
Our imagination is extremely powerful.
I’ll bet if I said I’d give you a million bucks if you could right now generate the emotion he felt at that moment you could get pretty close.
How would you do it?
You’d stand up, jump up and down a few times, clench your fists, fire all the muscles in your arms and legs, and let loose a primal yell.
At the same time you’d visualize your winning the million dollars, or cashing in huge on some stock deal, or getting a date with Paris Hilton (or whatever would really set you off).
Keep doing these things — I mean for real doing them, no holds barred — for one minute and you’d be pretty close, don’t you agree? You’d certainly be pumped up, you’d certainly be excited.
Would you like to feel that way? Then do what I prescribed above.
Youth Baseball Tips: Make it Fun!
I’m often asked for baseball tips on how to motivate kids…. TODAY’S kids.
As we see in this video, one, if not the best baseball tips is to be creative and find a way to make it fun!
And it’s more fun when you’re good. When you relax and play freely. Learn more baseball tips here and get my #1 Baseball Success Secret HERE
Baseball Training: A Quick Visualization Tip
Baseball mental training meets the scalpel. A nice little visualization tip is revealed.
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Baseball Coaching: Do You Follow These 3 Performance Principles?
Here’s a baseball coaching and baseball training video covering three vital performance principles… and the arm surgery I’m having today….
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Baseball Skills: Baseball Errors Explained
The baseball skills a player “has” don’t always show up on the field.
That is, players typically don’t play to their potential.
Why is that?
Here’s a model you might find useful in understanding this…
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Baseball Coaching Strategies: Get Hitters to Mute Neo-cortex!
Below is an article I’d really like you to read.
It’s by a former Big League pitcher, though it reads like
its been written by a really smart guy…
(I’ve had ML pitchers tell me they wish they weren’t
intelligent so they wouldn’t think themselves to death.)
Dave Baldwin analyzes what goes in inside a batter’s brain
and the rest of his body while a pitch is on it’s way.
It explains a lot about what it takes to succeed as a
hitter and as a pitcher.
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To Think or Not to Think?
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One highlight is Baldwins’s talking about the functions of
the different parts of the brain, namely the neo-cortex and
the limbic system.
(I break this down in a very practical, useful way at the
start of Week 2 lesson in my new program “Baseball Success
Secrets.”
The lesson shows you clearly why the primary goal of mental
game training, and, for my $$, the primary goal of baseball
training period is to _______.)
Baldwin emphasizes that any activity in the neo-cortex
messes up hitters. It explains why virtually every hitter
will tell you he hits best when he’s “not thinking.”
Thinking = neo-cortex activity.
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Check out THIS Quote from the Article…
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“The batter’s noggin has about 270 msec or a little more
than a quarter of a second to get its ducks in a row and
start the swing.
“But, although the bat has started its journey, the
batter’s conscious mind is still unaware that the batter
has decided to swing.”
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Did You Catch That?
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The body has decided to swing before the conscious mind
even knows it!
This emphasizes one of the central points of my training:
confidence is not just a brain thing: it’s a whole body
thing.
Thus, it doesn’t help you to KNOW things about how to
perform. The thing has to BE IN YOUR BODY.
That’s why each week in my program you get some knowledge
in the form of a lesson or what I call a “distinction.”
AND you get a practice (an exercise): Something to DO so
that confidence and trust and belief get into your BODY,
not just into your neo-cortex (where it does you “know”
good).
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So here’s the article:
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2009/09/unraveling_the.php
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(notice you FEEL it, don’t just THINK it)
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That’s all for now –
Play with Confidence,
Dr. Tom
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Baseball Training: Old Coach Wisdom for Those Willing to Listen
Click here to read an excellent article about a coach with a heart and head in the right place.
I love the “topic of the day” — dealing with failure.
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Baseball Success Secrets Revealed: Featuring Ken Ravizza
Here’s baseball coaching expert Dr. Ken Ravizza, co-author (with me) of “Heads-Up Baseball: Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time.”
You might watch it through 2x, he actually says a lot in a short time.
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