“Imagination is everything. It is the preview to life’s coming attraction” Albert Einstein

Imagery is a great tool that will assist you in achieving your basketball goals.

It is a critical mental skill that allows you to use your mind to enhance your performance.

There are four areas to quality imagery that will help you to elevate your game now!

Last week we talked about imagery perspective and multiple senses. This week I will share with you imagery control and imagery speed.

 Key #3 – Imagery Control

Have you ever been doing imagery, and you keep losing focus? This is where imagery control comes in.

Imagery control is how well you can imagine what you want to imagine in your mind and stay focused on it.

If you can control your images when you visualize them, it will help you compete more effectively. Controlling the images will also help you regulate your anxiety, which will enhance your performance.

Controlling your images will build your confidence and help you focus on what is important, and that is what you are doing in the moment – nothing else.

In many cases, especially in the beginning, athletes may perform poorly in their imagery. If this happens to you, do not get discouraged. It is challenging. Just know you are not alone.

Keep this in mind. When you have difficulty controlling the images in your head, it could be that, deep down, you are not confident in your ability to perform successfully. And that is precisely why you want to keep doing it, even if it is not good initially.

If you keep at it, it will build your confidence and help you focus like a champion.

Key #4 – Imagery Speed

The ability to adjust the speed of your imagery will help improve different areas of your performance.

This improvement will also help you enhance your performance and elevate your game.

There are two types of imagery speeds – slow speed and fast speed.

Slow-motion imagery is effective when you are focusing on techniques.

When you start to work on something new like – new skills, new strategies, new plays, or developing new skills, you want to see it done slowly in your mind.

If you are trying to improve on something you already know and want to get better at it, slow motion will help you improve those skills.

What you want to do is slow the image down and perform it step by step so you can see each move performed precisely. When you are doing well in slow motion, you can slowly increase the speed of your imagery.

Eventually, you will be able to perform your image in fast motion or real-time speed. Fast motion imagery is sometimes referred to as real-time speed.

This is the speed of the actual performance in your mind as if you were performing in real-time.

Fast motion or real-time speed is most effective when you imagine yourself being mentally tough, regulating your arousal level, developing strategies, and visualizing a skill you have already mastered.

Stay at real-time speed until you can perform the skill or run the plays very well.

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