Elite Athletes See a Different World - A Visual & "Quiet" Analysis
To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background. To activate the parasympathetic nervous system: widen your visual field. See as much of your environment as you can.
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
Baseball players have to know before the final two hundred milliseconds of a pitch where to swing, so the earlier they pick up anticipatory cues the better.
David Epstein • The Sports Gene
More recently, Debbie has designed a user-friendly and relatively inexpensive system, Opti International , to help athletes identify ideal versus unwanted brainwave states. Her system provides both assessment and training to achieve a “quiet brain” accompanied by vivid imagery and targeted focus. A second device is the Focus Band . Graham Boulton d... See more