{"id":903,"date":"2014-11-19T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:46:20","slug":"the-beauty-of-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/blog\/the-beauty-of-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Baseball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Learn-to-harness-the-power-of-your-minds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Learn-to-harness-the-power-of-your-minds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Learn to harness the power of your minds!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yesterday, I met with Greg Mathews, a former St. Louis Cardinale pitcher, who is now the pitching coach at both Glendale College and Compton College. He is helping young boys become better athletes and better pitchers, in particular, through a combination of strength and conditioning and technical expertise. We talked about <a title=\"Sports Psychologist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/sports-psychologist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Psychology<\/a> and the importance of the mental game, especially as kids are developing. Good mental and emotional habits lead to better performance, period. For instance, if we learn to harness the power of our minds to focus more and more on what we want and to let go of the myriad of drama and distractions then we will dramatically <a title=\"Dr. Brett - Psychologist, Life Coach, and Sports Psychologist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drbrettdenkin.com\/about-dr-brett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve our game in life, business, and sports<\/a>! I proved this last year with a minor league player who hit .208 and .212 his first two years in professional baseball without mental game coaching and with the assistance of Dr. Brett he hit .272 and is now well on his way to the next level!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I met with Greg Mathews, a former St. Louis Cardinale pitcher, who is now the pitching coach at both Glendale College and Compton College. 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