Upwind in your head - Paragliding mental training

Your mental abilities can be trained. This paragliding mental training book shows you how!

Whether you are a competition pilot, cross-country pilot, aerobatic pilot, or even a beginner, mental training offers everyone the opportunity to improve and gain more confidence when flying. You will learn in an easy-to-understand way what mental training is and how you can apply it for yourself.

If you want to develop your paragliding skills, this book offers you an additional way to do so. Learn how you can...

• ... prepare yourself.
• ...can usehabits to your advantage.
• ...control your attention.
• ...can turn setbacks into learning opportunities.
• ...make quick decisions.
• ...can dealwith fearseffectively.
• ... perform at your best.
• ...get into the flow.
• ...can formulategoals correctly.
• ...can correctly assess your abilities.
• ...can mentally prepare yourself for flying.

The edition has been completely revised and expanded. A new core topic is the connection between stress and mindfulness. Neuroscience has developed good explanatory models for this. This book largely avoids technical terms to make it as easy as possible for you to use these topics for your further development as a pilot. Examples from aviation practice are intended to show you possible ways of applying them.

• Practical: When and how, which training?
• Well-founded: Based on mindfulness-based methods whose effectiveness has been scientifically proven
• Just a few minutes a day: Even in a short time, changes can be demonstrably achieved
• Even more: Additionalaudio files and worksheets in the download area

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