Kinesthetic Imagery Examples In Sport. Gives feelings of involvement in an activity like walking on grass. This imagery helps us to see the movement of persons or things in the text and often creates a sense of movement in the text.
This imagery helps us to see the movement of persons or things in the text and often creates a sense of movement in the text. Kinesthetic imagery was described as imagery involving the sensations of how it feels to perform an action including the force and effort involved in movement and balance and spatial location either of a body part or piece of sports equipment. Imagery is a psychological technique which has demonstrated its effectiveness in sport through positively affecting psychological states such as decreasing anxiety and enhancing self.
Imagery has been described as an experience that mimics real experience and involves using a combination of different sensory modalities in the absence of actual perception cumming ramsey 2009 p 5.
Kinesthetic and visual imagery. Kinesthesia is imagery in a text that describes or depicts movement. Two modalities of imagery are reported to tap into distinct brain structures but sharing common components. Although imagery can be experienced through different sensory modalities within movement domains such as sport and exercise the two most commonly used are visual and kinesthetic.