Month: August 2018

Working On Both Softball Drills And Mental Conditioning Drills Make You A Better Player

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There is no denying that every softball player has only one main goal and that it is to be recognized as one of the best softball players in their generation. This might seem so hard to reach at first but if you have the determination to reach your success then you will become willing to do everything. It is always said that softball drills will help you to increase your skills and abilities needed in the game. But, physical strength is not the only important thing in this sport. Your mind has also an important role in becoming an effective softball player.

This is the reason why it is not enough to practice different softball drills without increasing your mental abilities. You should know that having an alert mind will help you to make quick decisions when you are in the middle of the game. Some of the mental skills that you need to increase are your concentration, focus, decision making, analytical thinking and plan making.

Thus, when you are having your training, you should incorporate some conditioning drills which can help you improve your mental abilities. Focus is very significant in playing the game regardless of your position. The best way to increase your focus is to practice the muscle eye movement and direction. You should also learn to anticipate the future action of your opponent so that you can prepare three back up plans as counter part of their action.

Softball is a pressurized game. You will feel the pressure once you step inside the field. Much more if you are the star player because you will aim to perform better so that your team will win in the game. Yet, you should not let the pressure to affect your performance. You should act naturally even if you feel nervous. Just focus on what you are doing so that you can do the appropriate action required in a certain game situation.

Actually pressure is a normal part of every game but you should learn how to minimize the pressure. Also, do not let your attention to be disturbed by the audience. As long as you have the air of confidence, you have nothing to worry about.

There are lots of conditioning drills which you can incorporate in your training. These conditioning drills are proven effective to make every softball player to be alert throughout their practice game. A good coach will let his players to develop not only their physical aspect but also their mental abilities. After all these two things work hand in hand in order to dominate the game.

Searching the internet can help you learn some of the effective conditioning drills that will test your mental skills. As a matter of fact, the internet is a better source than books because this can give fresh and new ideas on softball drills as well as mind conditioning activities to make the level of your performance better than before. But of course, you have to make the right choice to make sure of your success in the end.

Save Money How Outsourcing Your Medical And Mental Health Billing Can Save You Money

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Outsourcing your mental health and medical billing can save you money whether you are a professional that has been doing it yourself or whether you have hired staff to do it.

Outsourcing your billing vs. Do-It-Yourself billing

Many mental health professionals start out their practices doing their own mental health billing. It is not a bad practice for someone in private practice to learn how to do their own billing in order to have a better understanding of the whole business. But is it really cost effective to continue doing the billing yourself after you have some clients and understand the billing process?

One thing a professional needs to figure out is how much is the professionals time is worth? If you average $100 per client session, your time should be worth at least $50 per hour. If you can hire someone to do your billing for a fraction of that, it makes far more business sense for you to spend time learning inexpensive ways to market and build your practice with paying clients, rather than to personally take care of the administrative hassles involved in billing insurance companies.

Once you find an effective biller who uses the best technology, you can get paid faster with much less time spent on billing. You can spend time building your practice and in the long run will make far more money than doing the billing yourself. To build a successful practice, you are far better off developing an efficient system for working with a good biller than to continue doing the billing yourself.

Outsourcing your billing vs. hiring your own staff:

Hiring your own staff is expensive and time consuming. You are likely to need extra office space to accomodate your billing staff. Hiring staff will require you to spend time and money on payroll and payroll taxes, as well as requiring you to comply with additional laws regarding employees/employers. To find and keep an experienced biller you will need to pay the biller far above minimum wage, and then staff retention may still be an issue.

When you use an effective, efficient medical billing service, you get the benefit of the billers specialization and experience. Your billing service learns things from other clients, not just from you and is independent enough to require little training on your part. You can hire a billing service as a “business associate” paying per claim, per service, or as a percent of what is collected. You can control your costs.

Mental Fatigue And Exhaustion

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Stress and physical exertion contribute to fatigue and exhaustuon and if this is not checked it can devlope into chronic fatigue syndrome the pace of daily life has and impact on the body and the emotions.

1. Supta baddhankonasana using a bolster and folder blanket to support the head and neck and a strap to keep the feet close to the body.

2. Supta virasana with as much support as is needed placed under the spine neck and head to allow the back and knees to release keep the chest open and up and the soulders relaxed and back.

3. Virasana with parvatasana extending the palms towards the celling .

4. Adho mukha virasana with the head and trunk supported on a bolster and or blanket.

5. Pascimottansasana withe the forhead supported on a stool to aviid straining the back.

6. Standing Maricyasana using the wall and the stool for support.

7.Janusirsasana with the head elbows and knee supported on bolsters and using a strap.

8. Maricyasana i stitting on a support to aid the lift of the spine and turning the chest.

9. Bharadvajasana !chair! using the chair to increase the turn. Keep the leet on the floor. parallel to one another, to stabilize the hips. Turn from the waist, moving a little more with each exhalation.

10. Tadasana standing against a walL Use the wall to aid balance, keeping the feet parallel and together and the heels against the walL Lift the chest, keeping the face and eyes 50ft.

11. Adho Mukha Svanasana with the head supported on a bolster to calm the brain.

12. Ardha Halasana with the legs supported on foam blocks on a stool, and the brain quiet.

13. Viparita Karani using a wooden block and a bolster to support the lower back and hips.

14. Savasana with the head and neck supported on a folded blanket. and bandaged eyes.

Overcoming Symptoms Of Anxiety Attacks Using Mental Imagery

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Mental imagery can do amazing things to a person’s mindset. Basically all worry is due to mental imagery. This is because a person only worries about something he or she doesn’t know the outcome to. Waiting for the results of a lab test to come back is one example. When you imagine a bad outcome, you will exhibit all the symptoms of a worried and nervous person. When you imagine a good outcome, none of these symptoms will be present.

The right kind of imagery can help a person in many different situations. The old public speaker’s trick is to imagine his or her audience to be naked. This, of course may be difficult to get the hang of, but it certainly could change the speaker’s mindset from one of being inferior to a much bolder one.

Using mental imagery can also help overcome a panic attack or other types of anxiety symptoms. There are some mental images that work very well for this. In this article, I would like to share one taught to me by a young school teacher who is wise beyond her years. This little trick helped me greatly when I was a panic sufferer. Like the public speaker trick, this one takes a little practice to master, but just thinking about this image will bring at least, some relief.

Chinese Handcuffs

When we were kids, we used to play with a toy known as Chinese Handcuffs or Chinese Finger Cuffs. These were simply a tubular device, about the width of a human finger that was woven out of bamboo. When an unsuspecting person would put both his index fingers in the finger cuff, he would become trapped in them.

The harder he pulled his fingers apart, the tighter the device would become. Eventually, most people figured out the way to escape these finger cuffs is to stop pulling. I’ll bet at one time or another, you have played with this toy and learned the trick to freeing your fingers as well.

Relax Your Way to Anxiety Freedom

Anxiety attacks work the same way Chinese Handcuffs work. The harder you try to pull out of one, the deeper you become immersed in it. Anxiety and panic attacks are fed by adrenaline. The more you try to fight your way out of an anxiety attack, the more adrenaline you create.

During a panic attack, use the mental imagery you are escaping a Chinese Handcuff. Don’t actually try to do anything, just visualize escaping this device and the mental imagery will lead you away from feeding your anxiety and in many cases toward relief from it.
While this rarely cures anxiety disorder overnight, it certainly is effective in reversing an oncoming anxiety attack or just helping you find relief from a tough day.

Can Agoraphobia Turn Into A Mental Illness

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Am I going crazy?”

The fear of developing a mental illness or going crazy is a common fear among people with agoraphobia.

There are some good reasons for this fear.

First, panic attacks can make you feel like you are going crazy. During a panic attack, your mind and body feel out of control.

Because panic attacks can make you feel out of control, some people with agoraphobia have fears about suddenly losing control of themselves and doing crazy things. For example, I’ve heard people with agoraphobia say they were afraid of spontaneously jumping out of a high, open window, driving into another car in traffic, or stabbing someone they loved with a kitchen knife.

When you don’t feel in control of your mind and body, it’s easy to develop scary, obsessive thoughts like this – which can lead to the misconception that panic will keep growing worse until it turns into mental illness.

But, the truth is, agoraphobia is not a mental illness, nor can it turn into one. Psychiatrist and phobia expert, Fredric Neuman, director of the White Plains Hospital Phobia Clinic, says:

“Agoraphobia does not cause a physical derangement or psychosis. Schizophrenia and other such serious illnesses do not grow out of panic states.”

In his book, Rising Above Fear, Dr. Neuman describes agoraphobia as developing through “mistakes in learning.” Mental illnesses like schizophrenia are conditions in which a person loses touch with reality. Anxiety disorders like agoraphobia are conditions in which a person develops some unrealistic fears within reality.

That’s the main difference between agoraphobia and mental illness: Agoraphobia is learned. Mental illness is not.

This means that agoraphobia is more highly treatable than mental illness because it develops through processes over which you can gain control. If you have agoraphobia, you have just learned to think and behave in certain ways over a period of time. Learned behaviors and thought patterns can be unlearned, with patience and consistent effort.

If you have agoraphobia right now, be rest assured that you’re not sick and you are not mentally ill. Nor will your condition develop into mental illness, no matter how crazy the panic attacks make you feel. You are a normal person who has just learned some unusual fears.