Cheerleaders – Try This for Managing Fatigue
Cheerleading requires enormous energy and sometimes, you might feel too pooped to practice. As a cheerleader, you are likely deeply invested in your sport and not much can stop you from pushing forward, even so – you’re human and you’re busy and maybe you’re engaged in way too many activities so you get tired and your performance may suffer.
Here’s a simple visualization exercise that might perk you up. Ready?
- Sit in a quiet place with hands placed in your lap.
- Exhale slowly three times.
- Now inhale slowly through your nostrils and watch, with your mind’s eye, a white cloud of pure oxygen filling the lungs completely.
- Suspend the breath for a few seconds (three to five) and watch the clean air travel to all extremities of your body. Imagine that the pure white cloud is cleansing your body of all toxins, of all stresses, all fatigue.
- Exhale slowly and watch the “smoky de-oxygenated cloud” exit the nostrils as carbon dioxide. See it dissolve and disappear.
- Suspend your breath for a few seconds (three to five) and imagine the emptiness of your lungs and the purity of your internal self.
- Repeat this process several more times and notice the calm relaxation take over.
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