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The impact of anger within sports
By plrprousers | January 13, 2010
One of the things most people enjoy doing is sports.With family and friends, it is basically one of the funnest things to do.If you really do it competitively, then It is also fun. Whether it is professional or amateur it is something that people enjoy.But that spirit of competitiveness can go way overboard sometimes. Sometimes that spirit of competitiveness can actually lead to anger.In this article we are going to examine anger within sports and how it hurts or helps the people involved.
Now, there are some or various sports that are seemingly violent in nature like football or boxing. But is there really a place for anger within those sports. Some people say there is, but what I have found from my San Diego sports psychologist practice is that anger is really a detriment. Even in seemingly violent sports when a person gets angry you really can’t think right. And contrary to popular opinion most sports are a mental game and not just physical.
So there is no place for anger in sports and that is my contention. Sometimes we are angry when we lose because of our competitive nature that triggers it. But definitely, we cannot get angry when things don’t go well if we want to succeed in sports or life. That is really a real recipe for a total failure. And for those parents that do put their children in sports and want them to succeed I always give them advice. The advice I give them as a family therapist San Diego is to teach them how to control their anger.
But sometimes to motivate themselves, some people actually do use anger. It simply works for a time sometimes.But sometimes, in reality, that anger boils over into personal life as they actually begin to lose the ability and power to control it. That is when I end up seeing a lot of patients in my anger management San Diego services.
So in reality we all surely get mad at many times in our lives. But to truly be successful in anything like sports, we have to know how to control it.
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