Results MFT - sports

MFT Sweden has helped around 60 athletes with individually suited MFT programmes. Here are some of these results accomplished with clients that have choosen the method MFT - sports as a way of mental training. Focus in this training have been to increase the athletic achievement but a lot of work have been connected to life outside sports which is quite natural considering that thoughts, feelings and behaviour in a sports environment can be the same as in other contexts.

Clients that have choosen MFT - sports as their mental training method

Client 1: Man 26 years

Goals: To increase his understanding of what his optimum condition for achievement on court is and find ways for him to increase his ability to get into that stage. Increase his understanding of the feelings that occur during practice and competition, especially which they are, how they can be understood and handled. Feel better during practice and competition and strive for making the joy of winning greater than the fear of loss.

Tme consumtion: 10 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "Magnus has helepd me to understand and interpret my thoughts and feelings in a new positive way", " It has been very easy to talk to Magnus which have made our conversations developing", "I think we have reached all our goals and more to it", " It has been very good that Magnus himself is an elite athlete becaus he has been able to share his experiences and understand my situation in a contructive way."
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Client 2: Woman 31 years

Goals: Create a explanatory model to understand her anger, it´s source and connections to other feeling, experiences and behaviour. Use this model to understand the function of the anger, construct tools to manage it in a more constructive way.

Time consumtion: 15 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "We set clear goals and rules for how our cooperation should work so that I understood since I had no earlier experience of therapy", " I thought it was great that Magnus all the time was able to understand my reactions and situation", "In the short period of time that we worked I was able to understand myself much better", "He asked me questions so that I could find the answers inside myself", "Magnus is dedicated, thorough, professional and considerate as a therapist", "I would recommend Magnus as a therapist to anyone."
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Client 3: Man 17 years

Goals: To increase the ability to let go of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that are destructive for him in his present environment. Especially his nervousness and his feeling of havning to achieve. To increase his knowledge of his optimum condition for achievement.

Time consumtion: 8 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "The training has helped me in many ways, among others the ways I handle a loss, I do not get so low as i once did wich makes it possible for me to relax while playing and therefore helped me to play better. The fear of painfull losses has diminished. Now I can use my energy on constructive thinking, feeling and behaving instead. After all that I have learnt I can see how this could help me in my life outside sport. Your help has been very useful, thank you."
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Client 4: Man 15 years

Goals: Want´s to understand why he gets so angry that everything seems to get black. Want´s to get tools to handle his anger so that it does not become destructive for him in his environment.

Time consumtion: 8 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "I have been helped controlling my temper", "When I played a match I became engry but I was able to control it so it did not become destructive", "When our conversations made me see that I got a lot of emotional rewards for my anger that I did not want on a conssious level, it was so much easier to let go of the anger."
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Client 5: Man 16 years

Goals: That he shall be able to hit through his strokes, be less hesitant, increase his ablity to concentrate and learn to let go of destructive thoughts. That he shall be able to handle psychological warfare from his opponents, be able to give a hundred percent even though things do not come his way and decrease his stress while playing."

Time consumtion: 12 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "Magnus has helped me tactically, psychologically, with my conditioning and the game itself. He has also taught me how to think in different situations and not to hesitate. My game is better than ever thanks to a better self confidence."
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Client 6: Man 14 years

Goals: To increase his ability to play well even though he plays somebody he knows. To become a better judge of which balls to attack and come in to the net and which to play safe with a lot of topspin. To get rid of all behaviors of superstition that consumes energy and instead use it on more constructive activity. To make him understand what his optimum stage of performance is. To increase his ability to enter his optimum stage of performance. To become more aware of which thoughts, feelings and behaviors that prevents him from playing well and which help him to play well. To develop his ability to move from destructive thoughts, feelings and behaviors to constructive thoughts, feelings and behaviours. To increase his knowledge of how thoughts, feelings and behaviour are connected and parts of each other.

Time consumtion: 7 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "I believe I am more focused and more calm when I work according to my individually suited MFT program, I become more goal oriented. I am starting to be able to beat my friends even though I sometimes lose, it is getting better and better. What has helped me the most is my increased ability to move from destructive to constructive thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It is so much easier for me to accept bad calls from the referee and easy mistakes from my side instead of beeing disappointed and negative. Now I hardly remember easy mistakes. My mental strength and capacity have increased because of this."
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Client 7: Woman 18 years

Goals: To learn how to allow herself to not give one hundred percent in each practice, sometimes it is better to take it easy. To learn how to prioritize herself instead of always consider the environment first. Some times it is better to think about oneself even if other people want something different. To learn how to decide when to think about herself and when to think about the environment. To reduce the headache she subconsciously develop to create a legitamate reason for not giving a hundred percent and replace it with a conscious decision to take it easy because she needs to. To become aware of what her optimum stage of performance is like and how to enter it. To become consciously aware of what thoughts, feelings and behavior that are stopping her from running faster and which are helping her. To develop the ability to go from destructive to constructive thoughts, feelings and behavior and to know how thoughts, feelings and behavior are connected.

Time consumtion: 10 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "After going through mental fulfilment training with Magnus I feel I have learnt a good deal about myself, both new things and old that I have increased my understanding for. During our cooperation my feelings went up and down considerably, both laughter and cry. It is not always easy to open up to new people but a good side of Magnus is that he is easy to open up to because he seems yo understand you. I did not feel alone in what I felt. I could talk about everything. Magnus´s experience from sports make him an good mental coach. To begin with I felt that this training created new problems but I am very happy I acknowledged them because they were old problems that I had not accepted that through the training became conscious to me. The MFT have given me a healthier attitude to my sport because I now know when to go hard and when to take it easy, I control myself better. I have also learnt that life in- and outside sports are connected and new pathways of thinking that will help me in my life in the future have developed during our cooperation. Together we have changed the pieces that needed change in order for me to feel better and to increase my chances of succeding as an athlete. Thank you for your help"
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Client 8: Man 18 years

Goals: To learn how to play with wide enough margins and to learn how to handle the feeling of happiness that is so destructive to his performance. To become aware of what his optimum stage of performance is like and how to enter it. To become consciously aware of what thoughts, feelings and behavior are stopping him and which are helping him. To develop the ability to go from destructive to constructive thoughts, feelings and behavior and to know how thoughts, feelings and behavior are connected.

Time consumtion: 8 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "The reason for me to get in contact with Magnus was that I had problems focusing on an entire match from beginning to end. I could play well in the beginning of a match but lost focus as I got ahead. Magnus helped me to find the things that made me loose concentration. We found that my feeling of happiness that I felt after having played well was very destructive to my performance during he match. When I played badly I started to focus on what was going on around the court and therefore lost focus even more. All these behaviours sholud instead work as warnings signs for me saying "you are not focused" and instead start a signal for me to think, "new game 0-0", independent of the actual score. Our cooperation have worked very well and I have been helped a lot in many ways both as a badmintonplayer and in school, thank you!!!"
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Client 9: Woman 13 years

Goals: To reduce the amount of times she stops giving one hundred percent.To become aware of what her optimum stage of performance is like and how to enter it. To become consciously aware of what thoughts, feelings and behavior that are stopping her from playing better and which are helping her. To develop the ability to go from destructive to constructive thoughts, feelings and behavior and to know how thoughts, feelings and behaviour are connected.

Time consumtion: 8 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "I have really tried to think about my mental training. It has helped me pretty much. In the county competition the other week it relly helped me think in a way that made me win the match. I was positive, believed in myself, relaxed and aggressive in a good way. During the final the opposition was very strong and I forgot about the mental training which is a problem to me that I do sometimes. I fall back into old destructive habits. Sometimes I feel like giving in but I get help from my mental trainig programme. I need to work on a lot of things to become a better tennis player but MFT has helped me to take a step in the right direction."
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Client 10: Man 21 years

Goals: To lower the pressure and high expectations that he experiences to a level of stimulation instead of hindering. To stop self puninshment in the form of negative self evaluation and instead see possibilities and developing potential in what is going on. To be able to push himself so hard physically not to be stoped by feeling uncomfort in physical exhaustion. To know how to separate constructive from destructive thoughts, feelings and behavior and know how to transcend from one to the other.

Time consumtion: 13 hours

The clients evaluation of the cooperation: "I have learnt to focus on the right things in my game and feel that the pressure that I have felt before now is on a reasonable level. Now I feel with help from my MFT programe that I have learnt how to deal with physical exhaustion and also increased my consciousness of thoughts, feelings and behavior and know how to deal with them for my benefit on and off court"
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