Junior researcher M.P.Gavrilova¹
Head of department PhD Y.V. Golub¹
Senior Researcher L.V. Safonov^2
1FSBI «Saint-Petersburg scientific-research institute for physical culture»,Saint-Petersburg
²Federal Science Center of Physical Culture and Sport (VNIIFK), Moscow

Objective of the study was to test benefits of a negative mindsets correction method to control the sports-specific regressive psychoemotional experiences and conditions.
Methods and structure of the study. The study was run at the Saint-Petersburg Research institute for Physical Culture’s Sports Physiology Department. We sampled for the study the 28±5 year-old elite athletes (n=10, Masters of Sport and World Class Masters of Sports, 4 males and 6 females) diagnosed with ‘unstable psycho-emotional health issues’ detrimental to their competitive progress in spite of hard trainings and progress-verifying tests. The method was used to cure/ mitigate the sports-related mental traumas (n=6) and high anxiety and emotional instability (n=4), on an informed written consent of the subjects. Individual progress was rated in the experiment on a 10-point scale with 1 point meaning no complaints; and 10 points high pains, anxiety, fears, apathy, etc., complemented by the galvanic skin response tests. Every negative mindset correction session took 40-90 minutes.
Results and conclusion. The new negative mindset correction method was tested to successfully desensitize the traumatizing experiences and reduce the related reported psychoemotional discomfort by 78% on average. Since the method is fairly simple, accessible and proved beneficial, we have good grounds to recommend it for application in the individual and team sports for psychoemotional issues correction purposes, particularly in cases of traumatizing experiences (including losses). The group negative mindset correction service to activate the "mechanism of mirror neurons" with the associating growths of empathy – was tested to effectively cure or mitigate a variety of mental issues triggered by the traumatizing experiences to develop fair psychoemotional control and teamwork skills.

Keywords: express method, psychoemotional control, bilateral stimulation, galvanic skin response, negative mindsets.

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