Posts Tagged ‘Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment’

Mindfulness Training can improve cheerleading performance

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

When a cheerleader experiences anxiety in relation to executing a specific skill, there is a tendency to avoid it.  This is pretty natural – we all tend to want to avoid something that makes us uncomfortable.  The problem with this is that it works – meaning that each time we avoid something, our anxiety diminishes and thus we reinforce that avoidance behavior.  (more…)