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Message #94 - Keep Believing in your Miracle.

Lee Kemp | Profile
November 5, 2009

Don't quit the moment before your miracle... your breakthrough... your SUCCESS!

If you keep believing your breakthrough will come. Your success will come.

One way to keep your dream alive is to constantly visualize your success. Role play it in your mind. Then step out of your mind and role play your future success by acting it out.

Really act it out. As a young wrestler I used to make an award stand in my bed room and role play getting up on the #1 spot after hearing the my name announced as the champion. Sounds corny but this stuff works.

Another way is to make a feature film of your success in your mind and create a "highlight" trailer and play it constantly in your mind.

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#9
Replica Watches   November 8 at 6:50pm
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Dr FrankenBlue   November 8 at 2:43pm
brah said:
You might have just been a bad wrestler. You think you're the only guy nervous out there? Find any wrestler, even the toughest guys, and ask them if they get nervous before their matches. If they say no, they are lieing.
I do not think whether he was good or bad is necessarily the point bc he stated that he had negative ruminations with a complete fear of losing moments before a competition along with shakes (tremors) which is certainly not considered "normal physiological functioning. The dry mouth and increased heart rate; however, could be considered normal unless they impaired this person's ability to perform at an optimum level. This definitely sounds like performance anxiety which is very different from plain nervousness. I am quite certain if we asked most wrestlers what their thoughts were on match day or moments leading up to the actual battle, they would exude varying degrees of confidence not complete fear, anxiety, and gross tremors coupled with dry mouth and tachycardia. That is a disorder and professionalism intervention from a sports psychologist should not be ruled out.
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Brah   November 7 at 10:41pm
You might have just been a bad wrestler. You think you're the only guy nervous out there? Find any wrestler, even the toughest guys, and ask them if they get nervous before their matches. If they say no, they are lieing.
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Kristoff Thomas   November 6 at 9:10pm
Thank You
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Red Dog   November 6 at 5:36pm
I say just grow a pair Michigan Wrestler and compete hard!
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Robert Gendler   November 6 at 11:22am
Michigan Wrestler said:
I love the message but unfortunately I suffered from "performance anxiety" which at that time was simply called stage fright or negative ruminations. There was no formal diagnosis and treatment was few and far between (no medications either). That mental disease which I believe it is when left untreated will destroy a wrestler no matter how hard he trains, no matter how much he visualizes success, no matter how much he truly wants to become a champion and pays the physical price to do it. But when you hear the buzzer go off in the preceding match and you pull off your hoody, snap your headgear, all you feel is you heart pounding out of your chest and suddenly become overcome with dry mouth, shakes, total fear of losing, and anxiety. No matter how hard I ever tried, nothing worked, I was a failure not by my choice but due to physiological reasons which were uncontrollable at the time. But I still LOVE Coach Kemp's messages, they are so inspiring!
Some people have anxiety disorders that terrify them when it comes to public performance whether it be competition or public speaking, etc. For public speaking the drug propranolol will eliminate the physiologic response (heart pounding) but since its a cardiac suppressor (beta blocker) it would be detrimental to take prior to competition. Another way to think about it is that despite the inner torture you went out and competed nevertheless. That takes a high level of courage and is a personal triumph in and of itself that you can be proud of.
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Sport Psychology   November 5 at 8:19pm
Michigan wrestler,
there are things to overcome that! sport psychology is one, also i've heard of championbydesign.com helping out guys like danny felix, national champs, olympic champs etc
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Michigan Wrestler   November 5 at 6:33pm
I love the message but unfortunately I suffered from "performance anxiety" which at that time was simply called stage fright or negative ruminations. There was no formal diagnosis and treatment was few and far between (no medications either). That mental disease which I believe it is when left untreated will destroy a wrestler no matter how hard he trains, no matter how much he visualizes success, no matter how much he truly wants to become a champion and pays the physical price to do it. But when you hear the buzzer go off in the preceding match and you pull off your hoody, snap your headgear, all you feel is you heart pounding out of your chest and suddenly become overcome with dry mouth, shakes, total fear of losing, and anxiety. No matter how hard I ever tried, nothing worked, I was a failure not by my choice but due to physiological reasons which were uncontrollable at the time. But I still LOVE Coach Kemp's messages, they are so inspiring!
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Thanks   November 5 at 6:29pm
Excellent advice that can be carried over into your career -- amongst other facets of life and personal goals -- as well.
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