Most of the best athletes in the world have not only developed superior physical skills in their sport, but more importantly, they have developed the ability to perform and display these skills in the most challenging and pressure filled situations.
I can't tell you how many times I've talked myself out of something or convinced myself I wasn't able to accomplish a certain goal. This is all chatter in my own head, and most of the time I listen to the negative, self-doubting side of it.
We are all guilty of this. For some reason, anything short of perfection for competitive athletes is unacceptable. Regardless of how long we have been doing our particular sport, we constantly have these ridiculously high expectations of ourselves and we beat ourselves up when we don't perform as we feel we should.
If you participate in gymnastics, or any sport long enough, chances are that at some point along the way you will experience an injury. If you were to scour for more information here, you'd know that the probability of an injury transpiring from gymnastics is high. The physical process of rehabbing the injury and getting back to normal training and competition level can be a long and difficult road. However, what is often overlooked is the mental rehabilitation that also needs to take place. Even when the athlete is back to 100% physically, neglecting the mental rehab or avoiding sessions of advanced hypnotherapy training can prevent the athlete from ever returning to pre-injury form.
