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Cathal Doherty, 4 Feb
CAROLINE Currid, the former sports psychologist for the Limerick senior
hurlers, says that working with the team has been five years of
“massive memories”.
When speaking about resilience and resolve, Ms Currid said that
All-Star hurler Seán Finn - who was in the audience - should be up on
the stage as he “epitomises resolve and resilience” in the injuries he
has been going through.
“As we all say, within the Limerick hurlers, you know, - I think it's a
key to their success - in order to be resilient and to keep taking the
punches and getting back up again, you have to have a really strong
foundation in yourself, you know, and we have to have a strong
foundation as a team,” Ms Currid said, addressing those in attendance.
“And so what I mean by that is understanding what truly matters to us,
understanding that intrinsic motivation, because a lot of the time we
are chasing after other people's expectations or other people's beliefs
for us.
“Everybody in this room, no more than the hurlers, has a very unique
belief system and value system. And we need to understand what that is
for us so that we can understand what matters to us,” she added.
According to Ms Currid, they have been building that belief system with
the hurlers for the past six years.
“I think if you said to those boys, ‘you can have the camaraderie and
the brotherhood, or you can have the medals?’ Well, I know, every day,
they'll take that brotherhood that they have, because when they're out
on the pitch, and they're playing in those games, they're not doing it
for those medals, they're doing it for each other because that's what
matters to them. That's the intrinsic motivation,” Ms Currid said.
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“I’ve never seen a group as tight and as close and it’s even in the
backroom team. It's everybody together, we just spent such an amount of
time together. Seanie [Seán Finn] was telling me that even just
recently, another few of them went off on holidays together. They're
not asked to do that, they want to do that, they want to be in each
other's company.
“I truly believe you'll handle an awful lot of stress in your life and
an awful lot of challenges once you have that really strong core
foundation,” she added.
Ms Currid, who resides in Sligo and is currently two years into her PhD
studies at the University of Limerick, said confidence and how to pick
someone up whose confidence has been shot was one of the reasons she
decided to take on more studies.
“What I'm studying is our belief systems and how our childhood
experiences impact our belief systems today as adults,” she said.
“What we're seeing with the research is, and it's a huge link to
confidence, is that what has happened to us when we were younger,
different types of mini traumas, big traumas, that we haven't processed
them to a certain extent, because when we're younger, to the age of
zero to 12, we have no cognitive ability to process that.
“So anything that has happened to us between that time, we felt it, but
we couldn't cognitively process it. So, therefore, when we get to
adulthood, we would have taken on a huge amount of beliefs in that
space of time, but we didn't process it. When you're triggered now
today, by different experiences, you feel it, but sometimes you can't
even put words to it. You can lack belief in yourself. But you wonder,
‘why is that?’”
She continued: “What I want to do is to create that process to bring
people back safely into their world where they can understand different
things that they've experienced and see, well, how is it leading to
that belief system today?”