The Essential Component To Visualization

The Essential Component To Visualization

Among other mental training techniques I outline, ‘visualization’ is by far the best method I’ve seen for programming yourself for success on court (through the all-powerful subconscious mind, the key to all sporting success).

This is the simple act of regularly mentally imagining yourself playing the ‘perfect tennis match’, and this sets up a mental blueprint within the subconscious for your body to follow when you are on-court.

However, a common problem most players have with visualizing is because one of its essential ingredients is to be able to quieten your thoughts and relax your mind to a specific level.

This is crucial while you “run movies through your mind” of successful tennis. Very few people seem to be able to do this, because either:

their mind simply won’t quieten down, or

their relaxation goes too deep and they fall asleep, or:

they don’t know exactly what to visualize, or for how long, etc).