Mental Training for Skydiving and Life($65.98Value)

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This is a peak performance handbook--for individuals and teams--for skydivers and non-skydivers alike. It’s a "how to" book that teaches practical methods and techniques for designing realistic plans to achieve goals. Best of all it's filled with creative and innovative mental training tools that are simple to use and can be applied immediately. John DeRosalia is a master at motivation and performance enhancement. He’s been training the ‘best of the best’ both in and out of skydiving for over a quarter of a century. The 2 chapters on teamwork alone are invaluable. The chapter Video Games—the Creative use of Visualization and Imagery, is ingenious, extremely effective, and lots of fun. The chapter on Performance Anxiety can make a difference immediately. This book is an exhilarating experience. It can change your life. I just finished the book and it is fantastic...awe inspiring, and moving. -- Joey Jones, FX, World Cup Champion This book gripped me. I found myself grunting approval at every turn of the page. -- Jack Jefferies, Arizona Airspeed, three time World Champion This book has had a major impact, not only on my skydiving, but also in my life. -- Dawn English, FX, World Cup Champion This breakthrough book is without a doubt the best thing to hit skydiving since the invention of the wind tunnel. -- Joe Trinko, former Golden Knight, two time World Champion John DeRosalia MSW, C.Ht., affectionately referred to as “Dr. John” in the skydiving community (even though he is not a doctor) is a Peak Performance Specialist and Consultant as well as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, author, motivational speaker, and skydiver. In professional practice for over twenty-six years and founder of SkyMind School of Peak Performance, John has been the mental training coach for numerous world-class teams and individuals, among them World Cup Champions Generation FX, the British National Team (Sebastian XL), the Danish National Team (Nitro), the Canadian National Team (Plaid Jackets), the U.S. Army’s elite parachute team (The Golden Knights), and the U.S. Parachute Team. He maintains a private practice in upstate New York and travels worldwide to coach and present his curriculum to a wide variety of athletes, business professionals and various other groups. In 1954 an event occurred that shocked the world and expanded the boundaries of human consciousness forever. Roger Bannister of England, an athlete who refused to abandon an impossible dream, ran the mile in three minutes and fifty-nine seconds in a race that will never be forgotten by those who saw it. Until that day it was believed that no human being was capable of running a mile in less than four minutes. It was an accepted and well-known medical fact that man was not biologically or structurally designed to run at such speeds a fact that Roger Bannister chose to ignore. His belief, conviction, and knowing, allowed his vision to extend beyond the confines of reality. And while his physical achievement was truly amazing, it paled in comparison to the psychological impact this achievement would have on the world. Within days, the four-minute barrier was broken again by another runner. And two weeks later it was broken again. And then again, and again, and again Why, suddenly, were so many athletes performing a feat that only weeks before had been impossible? The answer, of course, is that they no longer believed it was impossible. Their old reality had been shattered and their present reality had taken on new parameters, all because someone had a dream and refused to believe an illusion. What are your boundaries? What secret convictions do you hold that stop you from realizing your dream? Do you think you re not smart enough, or skilled enough? Do you need proof that it can be done? Is what you want only achievable by those special others because they have qualities and abilities far beyond yours? Mental training for peak performance is a process that leads to an interesting phenomenon called change. Change is something that either occurs or it doesn t. It s one of the few things in this world that s black and white. There s no gray area. If it occurs a little, it s change. If it occurs a lot, it s change. But there s no in-between. Change can be either large or small. What matters is not the amount, but the direction. Generally speaking, small change now is better than big change later, because later has a way of never showing up. There s also no such thing as trying to change. If you re trying to change, you re not changing you re trying to change. You can jump out of a plane or you can not jump out of a plane. You can exercise every day or you can not exercise every day. But you cannot try to jump out of a plane or try to exercise every day. You either do it or you don t. The paradox of change is that the harder you try, the less you change; the less you change, the harder you try. And so this book is not about trying to change. It s about changing.