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Help children practise performance before it happens. This animated Power Up® lesson introduces mental imagery, different perspectives and sensory detail, then shows how imagination can support preparation for goals, new skills, pressure situations and unfamiliar performance environments.
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This section explores the benefits of positive imagery. Mental rehearsal or imagery offers you the opportunity to imagine a specific technique, experience, environment or even a specific state of mind. Applying imagery techniques to your performance rehearsal will facilitate optimal performance for participants.
Imagery is a mental skill commonly used by elite performers and is among the most important skills for managing the mental demands of performance. By regularly completing imagery exercises, you are able to stimulate your muscle memory and improve a specific skill through imagination.
By using the techniques presented in this video and in your workbook you are likely to achieve the following:
This Power Up® module introduces children aged 10 to 16 to mental imagery, a performance skill that involves rehearsing an action, event or state of mind in the imagination.
The animation explains how performers can mentally practise from different perspectives and make imagery more detailed by noticing what they can see, hear, feel and smell.
Children are then guided through examples of where imagery can be useful, from reaching a goal and learning something new to performing under pressure or competing in an unfamiliar venue.
This is Lesson 3 in the six-module Power Up® performance psychology course. It can also be purchased and completed on its own.
Imagery develops through repetition. Children are encouraged to revisit the exercise and experiment with the details and perspective that work best for them.
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