newTennis - Create Your Own Tennis Reality
Posted: Tuesday, December 04, 2007
by Dale LePrevost
newtennis.com
How you play tennis is only a reflection of your thoughts. Your inner beliefs and notions about the game, create, govern and become everything you do on the court. The only way you can make lasting improvements is to focus on new thoughts that will change how you see tennis in your inner world.
Scientists who are doing research in quantum physics have recently discovered evidence of entanglement between the human consciousness and the smallest sub-atomic quantum units that form the physical world. That’s why it’s now believed more than ever that the thoughts happening within us, will create what’s happening outside of us. Great religious leaders have known this for a long time.
Your thoughts are so powerful that with a simple notion you can literally change the physical world. An example is the placebo effect. If someone takes a sugar pill and they believe it’s the latest, most powerful cure for the headache, their body can spontaneously produce the correct chemical needed to stop that pain. If that same person takes another sugar pill and they believe it will cure something else, their body can produce a completely different chemical designed to cure that ailment. The point is, the physical world can be changed and things can be created on the basis of what you believe to be true.
What do you believe about tennis. Do you think it’s complicated, and there are so many thing to do at the same time that it’s very difficult to play well. Or do your think tennis easy, and if you just do a couple of basic things correctly everything just falls right into place for you. Whatever it is you think about the game will be true, because that’s what you’ll project into the physical world.
Most people who become great tennis players have a favorite player they idolize right from the start. This has a tremendous effect on their thoughts. In their inner world they always envision playing and becoming just like that player, so that’s reality they create for themselves. It’s called “seeing from the end".
I wasn’t Surprised when I heard what Roger Federer said in one of his interviews. After winning 26 matches in a row and finally losing because he may have been ill, he humbly said,
“Put everything else aside. The better man won".
I’ll bet Federer had dreamed about what he was going to say in interviews like that years ago when he decided to fashion his tennis game and attitude after Pete Sampras. That’s an example of ‘seeing from the end’. Sampras did the same thing when he idolized Rod Laver, and all three of those guys are class acts. That inner vision of how to play great tennis with a humble attitude was passed on down the line from one to the other.
Right now, it’s important for you to pick a favorite player that shows you the finished product you want. If you study this player and watch them every chance you get, you’ll start to envision playing just like they do. This will help you see from the end and experience the tennis game you intend to create before it ever shows up in the physical world. Then make sure you stay focused on those thoughts. To really see from the end you can never lose that image of your finished product.
Neural scientists tell us that having the same thoughts cause the same neurons to fire and connect in the brain, and every time they do they build stronger connections. That’s what establishes long term relationships between nerve cells called neural networks. All the neural networks you create with your thoughts ultimately determine your identity. So keep your thoughts focused on what you intend to create. This will develop a strong tennis identity that will give you the power to effect the outer world in a substantial and consistent way.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)Great article. Positive thinking can effect the outcome of any match dramatically. I'd like more young players to understand this.
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