Sports Psychology

From all the differents fields that psychology has, sports psychology is the one I want to develop most. I always been fascinated of the mental aspects in sports, I can relate some experiencies:  for example when I watch a football game and the best team loose, (for example the match beetween Universidad Catolica and Sao Paulo, played yesterday) for silly reasons, it always make wonder what went wrong?. 

The sports psychology studies phenomenoms like concentration, attention, motivation and mental health in sports and see how this factors impacts the performance of the athletes.

A sports Psychologyst is not restricted only to the high perfomance level of sports, it includes all the levels from olympic level to amateur level. Sports psychology has been studying the psychological aspects in every level of sports performance.

sports psychology has been studying  the social aspects involved in sports, that is a reason why the sports psychologist can be part of proyects to expand physics activities and make the people stay motivated (motivation always has been a phenomenon studied in pshychology). For example a classmate is doing her practice in a Sename center (Sename is the national service for minors, and Works with children in social risk) and she is ussing  sports to emotional educate the childrens. Other classmates done their practices in football clubs like Colo-Colo and Universidad de Chile.

Sports psychologyst is a very demanding career, because you need a lot of studies,  it requieres a doctor or master degree. Also it needs a great understanding of sports, especially  the ones that you are going to work in.

http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologycareerprofiles/p/sportspsyc.htm

Happiness

Dan Gilbert, a psychologist of the University of Harvard, he in a exhibition spoke about the great power that our mind has and which one is: the power to elaborate a certain situation, which give us the chance to be prepared.  The main theme of that exhibition was happiness, so why this insight is important to understand human happiness? Because Dan, says that our mind tend to misjudge what make us happy.  

Dan Gilbert make a special difference in the way to approach happiness, he distinguishes two kind of happiness the synthetical, which it is the one that we create when we don`t get the things we want (I would say the rationalization of frustration) and  the natural is the one that we experiment when we have the things that we wanted. Dan says that our minds tend to fight against the synthetical happiness but he showed that synthetical happiness can be equal as the natural. He says that freedom of choose is the friend of natural happiness, but it is the enemy of the synthetical happiness, why? Because Dan says that the psychological immune system Works better in stuck, situations.

In conclusion, the people tend to choose freedom, but this freedom is against synthetical happiness (which it is a defence system against frustration). In absence of freedom our mind Works in a  way  that elaborates  happiness as defence. 

Chile in particular is very special, we have a hedonist but at the same time conservatory society, our societies values the material aspects of life but the main powers of our country (you can call it the way you want, it can be the goverment, or the business  men) took from us the possibilities to reach the things we want.  From myself I like to that happiness is something personal, you have to sit down in a while and confront yourself why do you want the things you want? persue the happines that you think it is right for you not the happines that society, your parents, girlfriend, friends tell you.

Guilty pleasures.

Well I have many guilty pleasures but I would like to talk about one that I used to have: eating, I wasa big eater. I really love fast food specially fries and hot dogs in the old times I used to grab some money and go out for a big portion of fries and a  gigantic hot dog it was a quite funny becouse I walked like 20 minutes to the fast food stablishment to get my order and when I returned home all my family asked where I did go? And I just said that I went to see a friend (yes I was a big liar) and their said to me ohh that´s ok, would like to go eat some  fries? And I was like, ehhh uhhhm ok let´s go !!!!!!! (So as you see  I was a liar and a glutton).

Fortunaly I didn´t get any heart dissease of something (yes, I`m being a little dramatic xD) because I really like to do exercise, as I said before I like to play table tennis and I tend to play it many time per week. But right know I´m stopping eating too much, for a strange reason my stomach really shrank so I try to not overeat because the next day I get up with a stomach ache. So as you may see my guilty pleasure was over because it is no longer a pleasure but   sometimes I manage to  eat some fries  : ).