Build Sports Confidence and Win

One of the greatest secrets of the Eastern mind masters is how to breathe for clarity and performance.  It‘s the most powerful ability a player has to increase his or her performance.  It’s more powerful and has more potential for improvement  than any training aid, computer analysis, or academy.  But it’s rarely being used because it is under appreciated, misunderstood, or taken for granted.  After all, who hasn’t breathed well at one time or another? But there’s more to it.

 In today’s world,  science can show  the amazing benefits of  Eastern breathing practice, benefits like, incredibly, growing brain tissue!  But the Eastern masters have known the secret of breathing well for thousands of years; they didn’t need science  to see the results.  Yet modern players and coaches have still not taken advantage.  

The true secret is how to do it.  Eastern masters practice for years.  This kind of discipline seems out of place and even strange to Westerners. That’s why I developed natural bio-feedback training where a player can see and measure one’s own breathing, and more.   And learn to do it in very little time. I know of no other way to learn it quickly.

In Eastern thought, breathing is the door to deeper  focus, concentration and awareness:   all required for  peak performance.  That’s why a full third of my mental training program is devoted to restoring full, free breathing, and developing Zen like abilities of awareness and observation.  No matter how big your  talent engine it only runs best with the highest octane fuel you can put in it. Makes sense doesn’t  it? 

“He’ll have plenty of more chances. He’ll be there again. He’s young, he’ll learn.” That's what they all said.  Oh, to have all one’s faults and loses to be forgiven on the wings of youth.  We are willing to forgive the failures of youth, but other deficiencies are measured in a bright light. And truthfully, how many chances at winning the Masters does anyone get?

And what specifically was most deficient: shot-making, desire, determination?  How about something called emotional control? This kind of emotional talent can certainly grow with experience, but, actually, is not automatically improved by aging.  Inability to control your emotions interferes with a clear mind.  At any age, all the talent and hard work in the world will not overcome a chaotic mind.

Eastern masters would say mental clarity has no end and no beginning.  Whatever pool of clarity and control Rory had for 63 holes, he drained completely when his tee shot on ten sought cozy comfort among the cabins in the forest of Augusta.  But true mental clarity,(what master teachers call mindfulness), cannot be drained, and is not self-defeating. It can be learned easily by young, as well as  old dogs, with my aquatic bio-feedback methods.  And you can use it to be a winner in any sport, especially the game of golf.  

 You see it all the time.  A match goes for three hours into the fifth set. One player is up a game, has had few errors and double faults all day, but still double faults and misses shots to lose spectacularly.  It happens so often it’s an epidemic, but it doesn’t have to be.

What’s going on here?  Poor shot making?  Lack of discipline or will? Laziness?  No, it’s about mental clarity and control.   All the talent and hard work in the world cannot overcome a chaotic mind.

The mental clarity and emotional control a player has had for nearly three hours is lost when winning is in sight and the pressure squeezes.   But true mental clarity, what many masters call mindfulness, cannot be drained, and is not self-defeating.  It is with you always: Eastern masters would say it has no end and no beginning.  But you don’t need the years of practice that it takes to be a master.  My natural bio-feedback performance program, TGCP9.1, acts like a  mirror for you to use this clear mind force  during intense competition.  Kick your game up, and be the winner you know you can be.  

Tennis players talk about a magical place—the Zone—when they are dialed in, focused, and so one minded that they feel like they can make every shot, put every serve where ever they want it, and the ball looks like a grapefruit. When the mind, body and spirit all come together it’s great. But what mortal can wait for those perfect moments to play? “I’m not my sharpest, I feel a little tight, let’s postpone the match today, okay?”

With a clear mind, what Eastern masters call an ‘unobstructed’ mind, even your weakest days as a player can be winning ones. Why? The masters would say you will have greater consciousness, giving you the information you need to play to your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. What information? You will have superior powers of observation of the facts, enabling you to make better judgments and decisions.

Only the Eastern mind techniques can create this magical winning place. It’ really the same magic the primitive competitor, who didn’t have modern mind ‘bugs’ shutting him down, blocking his talent, and creating fear and self-doubt.

Any sport is really two games in one, one against your opponent, the other against yourself. When you are in the Zone you are winning both games: the one with yourself,--unobstructed mind, control of emotions and thoughts, and the one against your opponent,--strategy, shot making, and determination. With true mind power, like is developed in all my program tools, you are sure to win the contest within yourself, making your sport half as difficult and twice as enjoyable. 

All players know this, what I call, kick ‘em in the butt coaching. I was at a soccer tournament the other day and heard a coach on the sidelines telling/asking a player, “Why aren’t you out there attacking the ball? You’re one of my best players. You’ve got…… to be more aggressive!” He was trying to coach his talented player to be a competitor, to compete at a level as high as his talent. The other side of this kind of coaching is the embarrassment challenge, “What are you a little girl? You want your mommy? Go sit down until you’re ready to play.” This is the only kind of competition coaching most players ever get.

More brainy-type coaches will coach the actions of a competitor. “Go put him on his a##! Keep your head up and look her in the eye. Quit whining and act like a man/woman.” You get the idea. Instead of coaching to have the competitive spirit spring naturally from the gut, which is a mystery to most everybody, they know what a competitor, or winner, isn’t and coach what not to do. The true nature of competing is rarely taught because of the myths around it.