Anger and it’s real impact within sports
One of the things most people enjoy doing is sports.It is absolutely one of the funnest things to do especially with family and friends. It is also fun if you do it competitively.Iit is really something that most people enjoy much whether it is professional or amateur. But sometimes that competitiveness can go way overboard. Sometimes that competitiveness can 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 sports that are seemingly violent like football or boxing. But within those sports, is there really a place for real anger. Some people say there is, but what I have found from my San Diego sports psychology 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 my personal contention is that there is definitely no place for anger in sports. Sometimes our very competitive nature that is built within us makes us angry when we lose. But if we really want to succeed in sports or in life, we should not get angry when things don’t go well. That is really a concrete recipe for failure.And for those parents who actually do put their children in sports and want them to succeed, I always give them advice. The advice I give them as a family counselor San Diego is to teach them how to control their anger.
But sometimes some people do use anger to motivate themselves. Sometimes, it just works for a time.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 counseling services.
So in reality we all surely get mad at many times in our lives.But in order for us to truly be successful in anything in life just like sports, we have to really know how to control it.
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Tags: anger management, family counselor, family therapy, sports psychology, teen therapy