The Complete Mental Game of Baseball
Taking Charge of the Process , On and Off the Field
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From Chapter Two--- Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
Baseball is not an easy game to play. In baseball, you will fail more than you succeed.Despite the diificulties involved in playing baseball, the game can be an enjoyable experience, especaily when you use all of the assets that you have which are at your beck and call. Three pesronal assets that you have at your disposal and in which you can invest are your thoughts, emotions, and actions.
Without a doubt, how you think about yourself as a player and person; how you use your emotions on and off the field; and how you behave in the clubhouse and other areas of your life can help make or break you and your performance and career, in baseball.
Investing in your thoughts, emotions, and actions will allow you to take charge of the process of playing the game in the following ways:
1. Developing and using your thougts, emotions and actions so that you can be a quality person. This includes understanding your personality, clarifying your core personal values, and being aware of cultural similiarities and diffrences that you share with teammates and opponents.
2. Developing and using your thoughts, emotions, and actions so that you can cope effectively with risk. This inlcudes elimnating negatuve people, places, and things from your life while building a positive support system.
3.Developing and using your thoughts, emotions, and actions so that you can be a good teammate. This allows you to contribute to the team, no matter what your tole on the team may be, as well as steping up and being a team leader when appropriate.
4. Develping and using your thoughts, emotions, and actions to be a consistenr performer. This inlcudes having a systematic way of preparing for each gam, being able to stay in the moment and compete pitch to pitch, and dealing with results and amking adjustments.
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About the Book
The Complete Mental Game is a comprehensive instructional system to guide the baseball player --- at any competitive level---- to take chagre of the process of playing the game, on and off the baseball diamond. Through this book, the baseball player will learn to establish a consistent approach to their continuous development and improvement, not only as a player but also as a person. The book includes guidelines methods and procedures so that the baseball player will learn how to do the following:
* Understand their personality, core values, strong points and limitations--- the player as a Person
* Cope effectively with negative people , places, and things that can put them at risk, while developing a posituve support system---the player as a "Coper"
* Buy into something larger than the individal-- the player as a Teamnate
* Enage prodictively in preparing for each game,, take their preapration into the game, be an accurate self evalautor, and make effective adjustments -- the player as a Performer
About the Author
Dr. Charlie Maher is a licensed psychologist and sport psychologist . He has been Sport Psychologist and Dircetor of Psychological Services of the Cleveland Indians since 1995. He also posseses twenty five years of experience working with professional teams , college teams, and elte athletes in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, horse racing, boxing, and other sports. He is Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology , Rutgers Univetsity, where he founded and directed the Sport Psychology Concentration. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psycholgical Society as well as a Certified Consultant of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology.