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As an athlete, performer or competitor, not being able to push yourself past your comfort zone is one of the major mental blocks. First off, I operate under this principle: Performance = Potential – Interference. Meaning, you will play, compete or perform your best when you have no interference or mental/emotional blocks.
To be able to Clear this mental block, let’s call it Self sabotage, it’s extremely helpful to understand it first and then you can take it apart. And let me explain your solution to this problem using my 4-step R.A.C.E. Formula for mental toughness which I developed from my experience working with thousands of athletes and performers over the years because this is the vehicle that will transport you to clearing this block. It’s what I use for everything now to help my clients acquire mental toughness.
R stands for Relentless and it means you must be relentless about your ability and desire to change these automatic thought responses that seemingly are out of your control. They are not. I give you the tools to Believe you can change this and to actually do it. You just cannot give up on it and I promise you, it will go away. This video starts the process for you.
A stands for Awareness so let’s go there on this mental block. Self sabotage is the most infuriating of the mental blocks because It often shows up right when you get close to winning or achieving something you want. What’s going on here is that your inner mind programming and your goals are not in sync. They are not lined up. They may even be totally opposed to each other.
So what happened for you is that somewhere in your past, you learned something about yourself and how you fit into your world. You created a Whole-hearted belief about yourself. You then carry this belief with you all the way through to today and then your bio-computer (your body’s intelligence) runs that program for you during competition or performing, just like a computer does.
For example, let’s say that in the 3rd grade you were playing a sport like soccer. And let’s say you get a minor nagging injury that never fully heals and because of that, you sit the bench more than anyone on the team for the whole season. On top of that, maybe one of your teammates, a bully, says something mean to you about it like: “You’ll never be good enough for our team.” …and you buy into it and think about it while sitting the bench all season. It becomes a permanent belief: “I’ll never be good enough.”
Flash forward to your 30’s and you are playing tennis late in the match and you’re winning. All of a sudden, you start losing your focus, playing scared and end up losing. The: “I’ll never be good enough” belief kicked in and sabotaged your game.
Don’t feel bad. Everybody has some of this type of interference.
Which brings us to C. is Clear. You see, I believe, there is always a reason WHY we do everything we do and there is a reason WHY we respond and react like we do and that goes for the sabotaging mind just the same. You have to Clear the REASON WHY the sabotaging happened.
The wholehearted destructive beliefs. And here’s the kicker…You have to do it at the inner mind programming, or bodily level. You can’t just think it up here.
Once these beliefs get embedded in your inner mind programming, you have to come up with a counter-belief that will dissolve it and then you have to get that into where the programming lives…your bio-operating system which is your body. Typical mental viruses or beliefs I help my clients destroy are:
I’m not a good finisher
I don’t deserve to win
I never start out good
I’m not fast enough
Other people win, not me
I can’t …(fill in the blank)
So, to CLEAR those kinds of bodily programming, you have to haven first have The right counter thought for you and you have to get it from your head to your body. How do you do that? Well, I could teach for hours on that and that principle runs through everything I do and is the reason why I have such a high success rate with my clients but the gist of it is this: the best way to get to your inner mind is to INTEND to do so and practice doing so. I do this, in part, for my clients with guided visualizations.
E. Emotional Mastery. This is the final piece for the self sabotager. Because your beliefs have been operating for a long time, even if you were to be successful at clearing them out, you still have a lifetime of how you react and think when you feel bad. These emotional habits are just as destructive as the original sabotaging belief. Think about this…when you feel bad, for any reason, you tend to think negatively about things right? You see the world through negative lenses. You let your mind follow your body! Feel bad, think bad. You are a slave to your difficult emotions! You have to break free of those chains if you want to break through the invisible barriers you’ve built around yourself. That’s why my emotional mastery process does as part of the R.A.C.E. formula. Defeatism, Procrastination, Unmotivated are all emotions that keep you in the negativity cycle until you master them.
Thoughts lead to emotions which lead to bodily feelings which leads to performance and actions.
Graphic – Thoughts >> Emotions >> Feelings >> Performance/Action
If the self-sabotaging mind is your challenge, The R.A.C.E. formula eliminates the mental baggage and puts you in charge of your emotions.
I’m going to send you an email tomorrow to pick up where I left off here to give you more tools for all of this. Look for it.
If you want to get a jumpstart on my programs right now, I’ve got links below. The R.A.C.E. Formula always works when you work it.
Let’s do this,
I’m Craig Sigl, your mental toughness toughness trainer