This technique is designed to help athletes identify the different attentional styles and focuses more appropriate for various specific sports that are involved.
to practice this exercise, athletes should be sitting or lying in a comfortable position.
1 - First you get athletes focus on your breathing. The first minute makes them breathe more deeply and slowly, while keeping the chest, shoulders and neck relaxed. Returns to normal breathing for three or four times and returns to deep breathing until it is comfortable, easy and regular.
then athletes should pay attention to what they hear, indicating that separate sounds, identify and then classify them mentally: "steps", "voice", "cough" ...
2 - Then, simultaneously they must listen all sounds without trying to identify or classify them. Must listen to the mix of sounds, such as if left running music while verbal thinking.
3 - then should be aware of their own bodily sensations, such as the feeling of the chair or the ground on which rests the body. Mentally must catalog all be feeling as felt. Before switching to another feeling must be extended consideration. Consider the quality and origin. Finally you have to experience all the sensations simultaneously without identifying them or label them in a certain way. This makes it essential to introduce an internal body awareness.
4 - In this step only pay attention to emotions or thoughts, allowing every thought or emotion displayed smoothly without being forced. Identifying the nature of the thoughts or feelings. Staying calm, no matter how pleasant or unpleasant are of, in succession, one after another. Then try to empty of all thought or feeling. If this is not possible with only one tune and focus attention and him.
5 - Open your eyes and pick something from the room that is directly in front of oneself. While it is seen directly ahead, look around the room and things in it to make way for peripheral vision. Simultaneously observe the room and everything in it. Imagine a funnel in which the mind is moving, and fair and its center is the initial object, which is directly opposite. Narrowing the focus to gradually reduce the funnel, so that the only thing there at the end of either this object. Expand attention gradually widening the funnel until you can see everything in the room.
This exercise is intended to illustrate the athlete to focus attention on stimuli that interest you, and learn to play with the breadth of attentional focus.
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