Harness The Power Of The Mind For Great Goalkeeping Feats

Uri Geller can bend spoons using thought, imagine what you can do for your goalkeeping if you just harnessed the power of focus. Focus is an encompassing goal, you’re the only person who can see it. With a strong focus you can alleviate pain, shape your thoughts and turn those same thoughts into powerful action’s. The mind is a powerful conduit for brilliant actions. Goalkeepers like any other competitive athlete have that ability to utilize their mind for favorable outcomes on the field.

Aussie health show ‘What’s Good For You’ gave a really fascinating insight into the power of the mind to excel in any athletic endeavour. Over the past decade, sports scientists have created some compelling studies that focus on how an athlete can help improve their game by up to 10 to 15 percent with the use of technology and sports science:

“We have athletes improve 10 to 15 percent in terms of their accuracy of making decisions in a game of basketball and we attribute that to the training we have given them.”

Above, Australian Institute of Sports Scientists have developed a computer program for basketball players that mimic on court decisions during a competitive game. I remember seeing a documentary on the National Geographic Channel about modern football and some of the amazing technologies that they use nowadays to help players increase their playing ability. Other scientists such as those at the University of Washington utilize virtual reality programs to enhance the focus of a test subject, thus allowing their minds not to be affected by a certain threshold of pain.

Can you imagine the ramifications of this in the future? Virtual reality used to increase the focus of athletes so that they can overcome pain and play longer? Sometimes I tend to think that the future is happening right now, and we can see this from the above scenarios. I’ll leave you with this interesting scientific fact that shows just how powerful the mind is if we focus on the things that we want to achieve on the playing field and off:

Your brain accounts for two percent of your body weight, yet it gobbles up 20 percent of your oxygen and blood supply just to keep going. And if they harnessed the electricity it uses while you’re having a think, your brain could light up a 10 watt bulb.

Imagine what you could do with your goalkeeping skills if you harnessed the power of mental focus…fly to save the impossible shot on goal while your team mates looked on in awe? Why not.