A Winning Visualization for Cheerleading Competitions

It seems like cheerleading competitions are happening everywhere! But then, this is the big season.

My new training program - The Mental Game of Cheerleading: Training for Competitions will be available very soon but until then, here’s a visualization that can be very powerful to do just prior to your performance.

Follow these steps:

1. If possible, find a quiet spot where you can sit upright with your eyes closed.

2. If this is impossible, simply close your eyes to block out all the distractions around you.

3. With your eyes closed, exhale slowly three times.

4. Repeat and say to yourself, with each out-breath I am relaxing more and more.

5. Now, with your mind’s eye, see yourself sitting alone in the audience, looking at the empty stage or performance space.

6. As you look at the empty performance space, you see someone you admire, someone who has been very important to your development as a cheerleader, come on the stage. This person stands on the stage.

7. Now someone else who has been important to you, a person who has been supportive of your desire to be a fantastic cheerleader, also comes on the stage and stands next to the first person.

8. And now a third person, also someone who you know cares about you and is rooting for your success, enters the performance area and stands next to the other people.

9. If there are more people you can think of who have helped you or whom you admire and respect for their competence and expertise (even if you don’t know them), visualize them coming on the stage, too.

10. Once everyone is on the stage, see them smiling with encouragement at you.
11. Now you come onto the performance space and embrace everyone there, taking in their good wishes and support.

12. After you have done this, the people leave the stage and leave you there alone but you know you are really not alone since you have taken in their support, their wisdom, and their expertise; you have soaked it up and you feel great!

13. You see yourself standing tall on the stage, confident, poised, and eager to perform.


I hope you will give this a try. And if you do, please let me know how it works.

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