Concentration and Attention in Sport: overview of how athletes can enhance performance by understanding and improving their concentration and attentional control. Offering practical strategies to help maintain focus during competition
Concentration and Attention Control Training : Offers strategies to enhance focus and manage distractions. Provides practical techniques like centering, attentional refocusing, and visualisation to help athletes improve concentration.
How to use focus to control your emotions: This video takes a holistic view, with Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Ethan Kross discussing the connection between focus and emotional regulation. Using insights from neuroscience and psychology, they explain how directing attention can shape emotional responses and share practical techniques for managing stress and building resilience.
Nideffer’s Attentional Model AASP: This youtube video explains how directing attention can help regulate emotions, showing that our focus can shift between narrow and broad but is often disrupted during emotional episodes. It emphasizes a flexible approach, engaging with emotions when helpful and redirecting attention when not, while warning against rigid avoidance strategies.
