arousal

• arousal

  a physical and mental state of alertness or excitement varying from deep sleep to intense excitement
• stress management

  • is important for a performer to be able to control arousal to ensure it is as close to the optimum as possible
  • deep breathing
  • positive self talk
  • mental rehersal
  • positive visualisation and imagery
• you can have 2 types of thoughts:

  1. self defeating thoughts
  2. self enhancing thoughts
• inverted u theory

  optimal performance is at it highest point of arousal, just before the u drops down. once you get too much arousal, you get negative consequences such as performance going down