Unlock the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
© 2000, Roger Haeske
This article excerpted from the Special Report by Roger Haeske “How to
Instantly Improve Your Tennis Game by "Removing your Hidden Performance
Barriers”:
Many tennis players don’t realize one very important thing; their tennis
game is created first in their thoughts and imagination. Your failure or success
on the tennis court is the direct result of your thoughts and beliefs. You
can’t have the proper mechanics, until you have developed the proper thought
processes. Your game originates in thought first; including so called talent and
athletic ability.
It is a well-proven principle in Hypnosis that once a person believes
something on a subconscious level that idea becomes a fact. An example is
someone who is in a deep state of hypnosis. The hypnotist tells them that they
are about to be touched by the end of a burning cigarette. In reality it is only
the hypnotist’s pencil. The result is the person immediately develops a
blister. Their body produces the same exact symptoms as if a real cigarette had
touched them.
The cause of this situation is the power of BELIEF. Even though the physical
reality said otherwise, the power of a person’s belief is even stronger than
reality. There is a famous saying from the book, “Think and Grow Rich,” by
Napoleon Hill that states, “What you can conceive and believe you can
achieve.” Your potential in tennis and life is virtually unlimited if you can
control your beliefs.
***Controlling Your Expectations*** This technique shows you how to improve
your tennis game by learning how to control your thought process by way of your
expectations.
The next time you’re playing tennis start observing your thought process.
What are you thinking about just before you hit a shot? Do this for all your
strokes, from your weakest stroke to your most confident stroke. Did you find
you were expecting to miss some of your shots? What do you expect to happen on
your best shots, probably success, right? Your Subconscious Expectations CONTROL
how well you play. This is the most important point of this special report.
This is something most players are simply unaware of. Once you start becoming
aware of your previously subconscious thoughts you can make instantaneous
breakthroughs in your tennis game. I know this because I have done it myself.
I’ve also seen quick improvement with my students when I helped them to let go
of a false and limiting belief.
***Discover Your False Beliefs*** The first thing you should do is to become
aware of your false beliefs and expectations. You can start by questioning and
doubting what you believe to be your current limitations.
Once I was playing tennis with a practice partner. I was serving and
volleying with poor results. About 90% of the time that I went to the net I
missed my volleys. After repeated failure, it occurred to me to pay attention to
what I was thinking, just before I hit my volleys.
I quickly realized that I EXPECTED to miss the volley before I even hit it.
So I tried a simple experiment. What if I didn’t focus on my technique but
simply changed my thoughts to expecting success on my volleys? All I did was to
picture and feel myself hitting great volleys just before I hit the actual shot.
I changed my expectations.
The result was fantastic. I instantaneously started getting in 80% of my
volleys. I had such a feeling of confidence. The only thing I changed was my
expectations, but I immediately improved my volley 70%. For years I had been
struggling with my volleys. I realized that one of my main problems were my
negative expectations. As long as I had that fear of missing I would never use
the proper mechanics.
|