Improve Your Tennis Game:
The Little-Known Emotional Secrets
by www.Sedona.com
To be a master at the game of tennis takes practice, quickness on the court and the physical skills to maneuver perfect swings and serves. But even with all of those factors mastered, there’s another aspect that can drastically improve your tennis game, perhaps even more so than any set of physical skills ever could, and that is your mind.
“You've probably heard that your inner game in most, if not all, sports is even more important than the outer game,” says Hale Dwoskin, CEO and director of training of Sedona Training Associates. “Your inner game is completely colored by your emotions. If you do not feel good about your game it reflects in how you play.”
In fact, nerves, tension, stress or negative thoughts about how you’ll perform can destroy your game before you’ve even set foot on the court. Often tennis players end up being their own worst enemies, literally psyching themselves out before they’ve even begun.
And while on the court, your body will have a tendency to mimic what’s in your mind. So if you visualize yourself freezing up and missing a key stroke, your muscles will likely become constricted and tight and do just that. If your mind is also distracted, your movements on the court will not be as sharp and precise as they could be.
The best way to improve your tennis game and succeed athletically is to allow your body to act instinctively, performing the moves it’s been trained to do with superior focus and concentration. Often, if you start thinking too much, your mind will only get in the way.
This is why releasing your emotions -- the nerves, the second-guesses, the anxiety about how well you’ll perform -- using The Sedona Method is an ideal way to conquer your inner game before, during and after your time on the tennis court.
“When you feel released or at ease when you're playing tennis you're much more likely to remember what you need to do in the moment without even thinking,” Dwoskin says. “So let go of wanting to change your mistakes from past games or from the last shot. And allow yourself to simply welcome whatever is being experienced in this moment and then simply surrender to the game as you play it.”
So profound is the act of releasing that you will easily improve your tennis swing and your tennis game overall. The Sedona Method is actually the perfect gift to give to tennis players in your life, as mastering this emotional strategy will put them leaps and bounds ahead of their tennis buddies.
“Releasing can improve any tennis game, and for that matter any and every sport, both in performance and enjoyment,” Dwoskin says. | 
