The contents of this page deal with how emotional fitness training (EmotFit) might be used to enhance performance in people who are already achieving to a high level and want to do better.
The benefits are:
Working on these areas and improving core functionality can help cut short practice and training regimes designed to raise levels of achievement.
Working on emotional fitness has the following benefits for performance:
EmotFit works on emotions, not by suppressing them so that their influence is not felt, but by processing and channeling them so that their energy can be used to improve performance. Two birds are killed with one stone.
In an increasingly competitive world where standards are being raised higher and higher, it is important to have the body functioning at the highest possible level. Having unprocessed emotions lying about reduces developmental potential and the level of achievement that can be expected.
The EmotFit programme is heavily focused on using emotional energy to improve functionality and change and improve physiological performance.
It is hypothesized that energy from emotions that are not properly expressed is stored in the intestinal region and has a direct effect on posture: the shape of the spinal chord and the openness of the chest. This can be freed up by processing and channeling any emotions that are causing problems while at the same time changing physiology through physical exercise.
Even high achievers have emotional stuff they have to deal with. EmotFit offers the opportunity to resolve whatever emotional issues, however small, that are needed to be dealt with in order to make the physiological changes, however tiny, that enable performance to improve even further. Small changes in physiological performance can mean huge changes in outcomes, in all areas of human endeavour.
The two areas of most focus are the chest and face.
The Chest
Improvements to the position of the chest and its connectivity with the rest of the body have obvious benefits for performance in sport and performing arts where use of the body is crucial to success. Less obvious are the benefits in business and leadership, but chest position is directly related to confidence, stature and esteem. Speaking well and asserting oneself both require good chest position.
The Face
Emotions have only recently been a popular subject of study in psychological research. The muscles that can be most closely linked to emotions are the ones in the face: nose, eyes and forehead. It is through these muscles that we express all our emotions. Little is known about any link between facial flexibility and success. One of the many (testable) hypotheses of EmotFit is that facial motility is directly linked to chest position and in turn to performance. In this respect, people who are able to express their emotions coherently through the face have higher functionality. it is also hypothesized that coherent facial expressions are linked to communication ability using the voice, because the muscles of the nose, eyes and forehead are fundamental in shaping the sound of the voice and creating its characteristics.
In light of this, it is proposed that even in fields of endeavour where facial motility is not a direct requirement, making improvements in facial flexibility can improve performance.