The power of positive thinking is vital for achieving success. Positive thinking is a mental attitude that sees the bright side of things. A positive mind anticipates happiness, joy, health, and favourable results. If you adopt this mental attitude, you teach your mind to expect success, growth and favourable outcomes.

Some people accept positive thinking as a fact, and believe in its effectiveness. Others, consider it as nonsense. Among the people who accept it, not many know how to use it effectively to get results. However, it seems that many are becoming attracted to this subject, as evidenced by the many books, lectures and courses about it. It is a subject that is growing in popularity.

Here are five ways keeping positive can help you recover from injury:-

Speed up recovery: A team from the University of Missouri conducted an experiment on men who have suffered traumatic back and neck injuries and found that a positive attitude can greatly speed up recovery. According to Dr. Charlene Proctor, positive thinking is \”\’a discipline that trains the human mind to change a perceived reality by repeatedly making positive mental statements”

Take Responsibility for Injury: According to the Association for Applied Sport Psychology those who display a personal responsibility for healing often recover from injuries much faster. This doesn’t mean accepting blame for how the injury occurs, it means accepting that once you are injured you are the only one that can affect your road to recovery and the onus is on you to achieve it!

Mental Imagery: The AASP recommends that athletes use a technique of mental imagery to aid their recovery process. Imagery includes using all your senses to create a mental likeness to something that you are striving to achieve in real life. A report in Sport, Psychology and Counselling found that the use of imagery resulted in injured athletes having much more motivation and commitment to their rehabilitation programs.

Appropriate Goals: Instead of becoming despondent when injured and seeing it as a crisis, it is recommended to view it as just another training programme to overcome on the way to success. By setting appropriate and achievable goals you can see genuine progress in your recovery leading to greater confidence in the rehabilitation programme. This can also allay the fear of re-injury by giving you greater confidence in your body’s ability to heal.

The Importance of Support: a common reaction to injury is to withdraw from the social aspect of the team or sport in which the athlete is competing. This leads to antisocial feelings of exclusion and pessimistic outlooks about recovery. By remaining an active member of the group team mates can offer their support and advice while giving you a place to vent. Knowing you’re not the first to go through this and seeing the complete recoveries team mates or friends have made can encourage your own recovery.

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