Coaching practices for Mental Rehearsal in Routine

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There’s a high-stakes thing coming
• I’ve got the plan written down clear as day, but when the actual moment comes I freeze or just don’t do it
• My mental rehearsal is a silent little movie
• I can feel something hard coming but I keep it deliberately fuzzy in my mind because looking straight at it is uncomfortable
• I do the same everyday things

Practices that may help

1. Mental rehearsal of outcomes
   Vividly rehearse the result and the process, with emotion, before you act.
   Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
2. Mentally simulate the planned behavior in its specific context
   Rehearse the action plan in your mind — visualizing the cue, the response, and the environment — to prime automatic execution.
   Action Planning
3. Add sensory channels beyond vision
   Build auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive detail into your imagery — not just what you see.
   Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical
4. Describe the difficult situation specifically and realistically
   Spell out the scenario you are anticipating — who, what, when — without minimizing or catastrophizing.
   Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations
5. Single-task with full sensory attention as a beginner
   Choose one ordinary task and perform it attending to each sensation as if doing it for the first time.
   Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical
6. Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical
   Mental rehearsal — systematically imagining yourself performing a skill — produces measurable performance improvements across athletic and other domains. Meta-analyses find moderate effect sizes, strongest when imagery is vivid, process-focused (rather than outcome-focused), and combined with physical practice. Alan Richardson’s early basketball research helped establish the empirical basis; the effect is well replicated.
7. Include a brief process imagery step in your routine
   Mentally rehearse the execution process — not the outcome — as part of your preparation sequence.
   Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical
8. Visualization
   Mentally rehearse your day and goals — the process, not just the outcome.
   The Miracle Morning, Made Practical
9. Practice imagery at real-time speed
   Image performance at the actual speed of execution — not in slow motion.
   Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical
10. Rehearse the full scenario in vivid mental imagery
    Walk through the difficult situation in your mind — including the hard moments — and watch yourself cope.
    Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations

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