Hi Annette: There are some books about this stuff called "Inner Golf" and "Inner Tennis". They both involve a lot of visualizations. I know they work because the golf coach where I used to work swore by them and handed them out to all his players.
That's how you know they work? Lot's of people believe lots of things and almost everyone, even "experts," are readily subject to confirmation bias. Lots of profesional athletes, for instance, have elaborate superstitious rituals that they swear by. Surely these rituals do nothing (except perhaps to lower anxiety, which could also be accomplished in any number of other ways).
I do not know whether visualization does any of the things claimed for it by sport psychologists, though I must admit to some scepticism. Whenever I hear the winner of some event talk about how important vizualization was to his or her performance, I can't help but think "Yeah, but all the people who LOST the event did that as well."
Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
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