SPORTS PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC

Looking for a sure-fire way to raise your sports performance? Study after study confirms the affects of music on attitude and behavior. Certain music strikes certain chords within us, changing our inner vibrations, making us sharp when we're flat. You can tinker with your mood, tune into your inner rhythms, make your spirit soar!

THE MOZART EFFECT ON ATHLETES
Athletes deal with play-by-play pressure. Elite athletes become comfortable being uncomfortable. Young athletes can be surrounded by unfamiliar spectators, while top sports stars are scrutinized by millions of viewers and the media.
Fifteen minutes of Mozart can calm your nerves, clear the jumble in your head, place you in a safe place. According to Don Campbell, author of "The Mozart Effect," a little Mozart goes a long way to:
> boost your immune system
> regulate stress
> expand your perception of time and space
> increase your effectiveness
> help your digestion
> increase your endurance
> create a comfort zone

HEAR THE MUSIC, BE THE MUSIC
If you are feeling emotional, unfocused, scattered--sit quietly with Mozart or Baroque music. If you are too systematic, too robotic, too structured in your play--listen to some Jazz.
You want to know what certain types of music can offer you? Follow this guide:

Baroque -- order
Georgorian Chants -- meditative
Romantic -- compassion
Jazz -- inspiration
Samba -- soothes
Big Band -- well-being
Pop -- belonging
Country-Western -- modesty
New Age -- relaxation
Metal -- release
Hip Hop -- understanding

Find the music that best suites you. Use it to your advantage. But do it now because music has been found to be so effective for athletes that some organizations are thinking of banning IPods and MP3 players from the field.
I wonder, would that include national anthems?

email: athletewhisperer@gmail.com