The real impact of anger 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 spirit of competitiveness can actually lead to anger.In this article we are going to closely look at and discuss anger within sports and how it hurts or helps.
There are really some sports now that are seemingly violent just 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.When a person gets angry even in a seemingly violent sports, you really can't think right or brilliantly. And most sports are a really mental game and not just simply physical in full contrary to popular opinion.
So my personal contention is that there is definitely no place for anger in sports. Sometimes our competitive nature makes us angry when we lose. 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 recipe for 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 some people do use anger purposefully to motivate themselves. It simply works for a time sometimes.But in reality, that anger sometimes boils over into ones personal life as they start to lose the power and the ability 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 get mad at 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.
Tags: anger management, family counselor, family therapy, sports psychology, teen therapy