MENTAL PREPAREDNESS TRAINING FOR ASTRONAUTS 

Exploring Outer Space Begins With Maximizing Your Inner Space:

• Be in a calm state despite the G-forces and everything going on around you 

• Prepare for the psychological and emotional challenges of different flight phases

• Focus your mental acuity and concentration to accomplish your own personal mission in space

• Create strategies to deal with other passengers to maximize your experience

• Create the pre-conditions in yourself to enable the "Overview Effect"

• Accomplish your own personal mission in space or air

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Topics of IST include:

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• Psychological acclimation and optimal response for the flight profile 

• Peak experience, Peak performance and Flow and learning how to perform optimally under pressure

• Creating the pre-conditions in the brain to achieve the "Overview Effect"

• Intention setting for a successful journey

• Situational Awareness Flow Protocol (theory)

• Situational Awareness Flow Protocol (practice)

• Forging the ideal spacecraft culture

• Brain Wave Entrainment (BWE)- theory and practice for optimizing your “Inner Space”