When you are performing your best and feeling your best, there is a coherence in your nervous system. This coherence is between your sympathetic (fight, flight, or freeze) and parasympathetic (rest, digest) branches of your autonomic nervous system. It is in the...
Finding flow in a new skill or advancing in a current skill will always begin with facing a level of resistance. This resistance or pressure is a must, it's needed for flow. It is the thing that is hiding flow from you. Understanding that this veil is hiding the truth...
Usain Bolt walks up to the starter blocks for the 100m Olympic 2016 finals. Showboats to the spectators as a means of controlling his competitive mind. His chin lowers ever so slightly, as he eyes the end of the track like a hunter eyeballing his prey. The noise of...
Mystics have said, “connect to the heart and align with yourself” Does the core of optimal performance sit in opening the door to the heart of flow? Does the personal awareness of your own heart rate variability assist not only in performing a task in flow but...
The search for optimal performance has been hunted by most of us looking to achieve excellence in our field. Once found it becomes like holding onto a slippery fish! But that effortless feeling of performing like a superhuman is so addictive, we must get more. As a...
It is important for every athlete, whatever sports they are in, to be very fit and keen on training in order to achieve results in this highly competitive world of sports. They spend a lot of time in preparing their body to cope up with the strains and the energy that...