In Your Mind’s Eye

Can you “see” yourself playing the tennis you really want to play?

What would it be like to play perfect tennis? Imagine your strokes are flowing, you’re hitting shot combinations
and aggressive winners, serving and returning with great accuracy, rhythm, and power.

You play a great match and beat a tough opponent, someone you’ve never beaten before, or maybe someone you
didn’t think you belonged with on the court.

“Impossible!” you say. “I just can’t see it.” “I’m simply not capable of beating that person or playing that well.”

In a literal sense, that may be true. Why? Because our mental pictures, what we can and cannot
see ourselves do inside our own minds, determines what we are
capable of doing on a tennis
court.

To play your best tennis, to stay positive, to motivate yourself through feelings of optimism and confidence,
requires that you have the capacity to see or visualize yourself doing exactly those things.

Through visualization you can eliminate negative images and replace them with positive ones.

To achieve your Ideal Performance State, you have to imagine that you can! But the truth is, many players are limited in their ability to do this by negative and…