Imagery is a powerful mental tool.  Using it can help you improve your performance, increase your confidence, regulate your intensity, and improve your technique.

Everyone can use imagery, but we all have different levels of imaging ability.  To improve your imaging ability, take a few minutes after your next practice or competition to review what you did in imagery while you stretch or cool down, when the memories of it are most fresh.  Imaging immediately after you finish will help you build up a library of vivid images that you can use later to improve your performance.  When you image, make sure to include all your senses, capture your emotions, and feel your body as it moves through space.  This will increase the vividness of your imagery, which is a key to using it successfully to achieve peak performance.