{"id":7064,"date":"2016-03-03T09:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2016-03-03T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:53:36","slug":"positive-self-talk-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/positive-self-talk-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive Self-Talk Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7065 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/self-talk.jpg\" alt=\"self-talk\" width=\"236\" height=\"214\" \/>What you say to yourself does matter, according to a series of research studies described in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/talk-yourself-out-loud-here-s-why-experts-say-s-t76531\">recent article<\/a>. \u00a0Not only does self-talk\u00a0work, but it also helps when you talk to yourself out loud and in the 3rd person (e.g., &#8220;Come on, Jim!).<\/p>\n<p>I encourage the athletes I work with to use self-talk to build motivation and confidence (e.g., &#8220;You can do this!), increase or decrease their intensity (e.g., &#8220;Settle down&#8221; or &#8220;Fire up!&#8221;), and to improve their focus (&#8220;Attack!&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Positive self-talk also ensures that you&#8217;re your best ally rather than your worst enemy when training and competing.<\/p>\n<p>Try it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you say to yourself does matter, according to a series of research studies described in a recent article. \u00a0Not only does self-talk\u00a0work, but it also helps when you talk to yourself out loud and in the 3rd person (e.g., &#8220;Come on, Jim!). I encourage the athletes I work with to use self-talk to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1520],"tags":[74,231,831,155],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-athletes","tag-negativity","tag-self-talk","tag-sport-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}