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CHEMICAL BROTHERS
WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR BRAIN?
when you play hockey there’s so many our blood would be super-oxygenated, if these feelings can be controlled and
chemicals pumping around your body and our muscles would be fed-all to overcome…
your middle name could be ICI…but achieve higher levels of performance.
exactly what’s going on? and is it This process enabled human beings to
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helpful to your game? survive and build the safe world that we
enjoy today. The catch is that our bodies armed with a bit of science knowledge
To you it’s an important ‘must win’ still react to fear-real or imagined-in the and Dr. Kris eiring, an expert in the fi eld
league match. To your body however, same way. of sporting performance, we take three
it’s a complicated range of emotions When we’re playing hockey, our fear of situations everyone who has ever picked
and reactions that swing wildly from failure gives rise to the fi ght or fl ight up a hockey stick knows well and see if
one extreme to another in seconds. So response along with its characteristic we can learn how to control the mass of
what’s going on in your brain over those bodily reactions, but these now have emotions swirling round and turn them
all-important 70 minutes? and can you nowhere to go. We don’t take fl ight and to our advantage?
learn to train your feelings to help you neither do we fi ght, but instead, we tell
play a better game? We decide to fi nd ourselves not to be so silly, and try to
out… combat the panic. By this time, there’s
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no point in trying to use our mind to
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control the effects of fear because our eMotIoNS FeLt
body has taken control and is doing its • Fear
Thousands of years ago, when we were job perfectly well. This lack of control • Confusion
surviving in a physically hostile world gives rise to further feelings of anxiety, • Stress
populated by wild predators and human which signal the body to try harder • responsibility for team
enemies, our fi ght or fl ight response because the threat has not disappeared
enabled us to fuel our strength so we and there is still work to be done. More what’S GoING oN IN MY BodY?
could overpower or at least outrun adrenalin…faster heart beat…busy Feelings of fear and stress at their
whoever was chasing us. In the moment muscles…and on and on. extreme can cause heart palpitations,
of need, our bodies would release So we decide to try and understand nausea, chest pain, shortness of breath,
adrenalin, our hearts would pump faster, our bodies a little better and fi nd out stomach aches, and headaches. The
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