Parents or coaches can use this visualization for any sport. Modify it for the child’s sport by substituting an appropriate exercise. This script demonstrates how a little imagination can help an athlete’s performance.
PARENT TO CHILD: Stand with your feet together and jump with both feet
as far as you can. Let’s see how far you can go. Child jumps. Mark the spot where she lands.
PARENT: Now let’s do it again. But first imagine that you can jump farther.
Pause. Let her picture the mark you made where she landed, then see herself
landing past it, and then your drawing the new mark.
PARENT: Now try it again. Child jumps farther.
PARENT: It’s like magic! Isn’t that cool how your imagination can help you? Each time you have a new game or goal, remember how you can use your imagination and thoughts to help.
By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Metro Denver Eye Doctor in vision improvement.
A pioneer in vision therapy and developmental optometry, Dr. Lynn Hellerstein is the founder of Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, PC. For more than 40 years, she has helped thousands of children and adults improve their vision and transform their lives — at home, in the classroom and on the sports field.
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