Mental fulfilment training (MFT) - sports

This branch within MFT speaks directly to anyone that wants to improve mentally as an athlete and strives for better and mor consistent achievements. It can include dealing ewith nervousness, anger, decreasing the differences between a good and a bad performance, having a mental strategy during competition or just learning to enjoy yor sport!

MFT - sports, a short introduction

MFT-sports have the same for steps as MFT - everyday use, rewiev conversation, identifying changes, mental training and measuring the achieved progress. What separates the branches is the condition of thoughts, feelings and behaviour in wich you will achieve your best result in sports are different from the thought, feelings and behaviour that will make you constructive in everyday situations. But both branches lie upon the same theoretical psychotherapeutic foundation.

To better your athletic performance it is very important that you have a well thought training mental strategy that deals with psychologically demanding situations during training and competition. In addition it is crucial that you make mental fulfilment training a part of your everyday training. MFT is as important to you as other parts of your training if you want to become stronger mentally! If you use an individually suited MFT program you will access a detailed and efficient mental strategy consisting of five mental abilities that is individually adapted.

Consiousness. You need to practice to in each moment become aware of what you think, fell and how you behave when you perform well to be able to distinguish between thoughts, feelings and behavior that are constructive and destructive to your performance.

Knowledge of your optimum condition for performance. You need to, as thorough as possible, describe what thoughts, feelings and behavior you use when you achieve your best results. In order to do that you can use memories of your best performance. What did you feel, think, taste, smell, see, what happened and how did you behave at that particular occation? Learn how to get in contact with your optimum condition for performance.

Transition ability. When you perform situations will occur when the way you think, feel and behave gets destructive instead of constructive to your result. Your task is to learn how to, at all times, search for yor optimum inner stage. If you experience yourself using destructive, thoughts, feelings and behavior you need to be able to get in contact with your optimum stage as soon as possible.

The ability to distinguish between thoughts, feeling and behavior. You will also need to learn how to separate what you think, what you feel and how you behave because they are all three different mental processes that are part of each other and often in action at the same time. You need to learn how to separate constructive and destructive thoughts, feelings and behavior.

Knowledge of how thoughts, feelings and behaviors are connected and affect each other. Finally it is important to understand that thoughts, feelings and behavior are intimately connected and interrelated parts of the same system. To be able to stay in your optimum condition of performance you need learn how to deal with your own thoughts, feeling and behavior at the same time.

Deal with what is stopping you inside yourself to get where you want in sports by contacting MFT Sweden under the homepage headline "contact us" at the top of the page!