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Continue reading →: How Can I Get Mentally Stronger in Cricket?This useful article will be checking out different ways through which you can get mentally stronger if you are a cricketer. These techniques can also be useful if you play some other sport. Despite all its physical demands, cricket is a highly mental game. How Can I Get Mentally Stronger…
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Continue reading →: What are Good Questions to Ask a Sport Psychologist?This interesting article will be checking out some great questions that you can ask a Sport Psychologist. You can use these if you are meeting a Sport Psychologist for the first time and are interesting in pursuing future sessions with them. What are Good Questions to Ask a Sport Psychologist?…
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Continue reading →: What are the 10 Areas of Sport Psychology?In this blogpost, I am going to be covering the 10 different areas of Sport Psychology. This post is basically a re-introduction to Sport Psychology for those who are curious about the subject and want to use this knowledge to improve their performance. What are the 10 Areas of Sport…
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Continue reading →: WHAT IS YOUR ORIENTATION?You play cricket for many reasons. You may play it because you like challenges, you may play it because you like working as a team or you may play it because you like bowling. If you look closely, the reason you play is never because it is ‘fun’. Of course,…
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Continue reading →: How to choose your cricket role model?Our first role models are our own parents. They have an important formative influence on our lives. Of course role models can be both positive and negative. But as children, we do not have the necessary knowledge to decide what is good or bad. We simply ‘model’ ourselves after someone…
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Continue reading →: EMPATHY IN CRICKETIn a world where fast, strong, tough, aggressive, great performer, winner, champion, etc. are used to describe cricketers and other sportspersons, ‘empathetic’ is a rare adjective. If I describe a person as empathetic, it means he/she is able to understand the feelings of another person. When a person is genuinely…
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Continue reading →: BURNOUTS – How to Prevent ThemAn athlete’s life is certainly not easy. You have to put in extra hours of dedicated hard work and countless amounts of sweat and toil throughout the year, to play professionally just for a few months. And this is if you make it pro. If you are an upcoming athlete,…
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Continue reading →: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ON THE FIELDBeing a psychologist, most of my work is done indoors. But practicing as a Sport Psychologist, it is important that I take my work out on the field too. During my years of practice I have noticed that on-field interventions become more effective when directed by the coach himself/herself. Firstly,…
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Continue reading →: HOW TO SURVIVE A BIO-BUBBLE? PART 2There are many positive coping strategies that players can use. The best perspective is to have a ‘psychological first-aid kit’ with several strategies and exercises you can practice whenever you are undergoing a stressful time, or a bio-bubble itself. Some of them are listed out below Maintaining strict routines: Though…
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Continue reading →: HOW TO SURVIVE A BIO-BUBBLE? PART 1
With the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of new terms entered our daily vocabularies. For the world of sports, a word that commonly follows conversations related to the pandemic is ‘bio-bubble’. While it may bring mixed feelings, it ultimately communicates a ‘reluctant acceptance’ of normality in sports. For some athletes, it…
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