consulting for a healthier and happier you. Generous with his website health and tennis tips, he also gives away free 10-minute tennis lessons and weekly fruit shopping excur- sion advice. “Eating raw isn’t enough for improved health,” he notes. “You need to exercise, and a low-fat raw food diet gives you energy for that, whether it’s walking, running, bi- cycling, stretching or bodyweight exercises. Getting the heart and lungs activated improves circulation and the body’s abil- ity to remove toxic waste.”
Jasse Matasse, LifeSuccess Consultant While Avery’s secret energy- generating tennis tip is edible, Jasse Matasse’s involves feeding the brain with effective imagery, using the In- ner Game of Tennis Focusing Tech- nique. For more than 30 years, this veteran hypnotherapist and owner of LifeSuccess Consulting has been helping clients strengthen their self-belief and develop the habit of visualization with specific images that get them into “the zone” and improve their game, both on the tennis court and golf course.
ing a method that Olympic athletes have applied for many years. It produces results.
Every evening for 30 days, while enthusiastically declar- ing, “Every day, in every respect, I get better and better,” visualize what you do well in your tennis game. See and feel yourself making the perfect shot. Or, you can see another player making the perfect shot and in your mind you can move into their body and feel them making the shot. As you make the statement, press down on the pinkie of your right hand. Continue through to your thumb and then press the thumb of your left hand until you have pressed and repeated the statement 10 times.
Be certain to use all your senses. Imagine seeing the players, court and surroundings in color. Hear the sounds of people cheering you. Feel the racquet, wind and sun. Most importantly, feel the amazing joy of victory and know that you deserve to win.
“When this exercise is done every day for 10 minutes, just before bed, an athlete will gradually notice a shift in their confidence levels before and during matches, and their results will steadily improve,” notes Matasse.
Jasse Matasse
Mental rehearsal is used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and in the sports arena. For example, NASA astronauts use mental rehearsals on Earth in order to imagine accomplishing particular tasks in space. Sports psychologists also use this process to train athletes how to swing, hit, run or perform any athletic move- ment, as if they were in the zone or, “in the flow,” as sug- gested by author Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, in his book, Flow. The hallmark of this state is a feeling of spontaneous joy, effortless power and even rapture while performing a task. “Nearly every player at some stage in their career has experienced this feeling to some extent, and then wondered afterwards how they did it,” says Matasse. “The answer is, by tapping into the part of the mind that we all have: the powerful subconscious, through which any athlete can rise to levels of play that stagger the imagination.” Matasse uses hypnotherapy and a visualization tech- nique to help athletes get in the zone where their con- scious mind, normally busy with judgmental and interpre- tive chatter, becomes quiet. “This allows the more power- ful subconscious to run their performance on automatic pilot,” she explains. “Strokes can then flow with effortless reflexes and power in a way that could never be matched by conscious thought.”
Inner Game of Tennis Focusing Technique Matasse says this technique is a form of safe and easy self- hypnosis that employs imagery, the language that the mind uses to communicate with the body, to program the subcon- scious mind for success. By using the technique and vividly imagining playing the perfect match at your next tournament as if it is actually happening in the moment, you will be us-
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Contact Tom Avery, Consistent Tennis Wins, at 239-273- 9204 or
Info@TomAvery.com. Visit
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Contact Jasse Matasse, LifeSuccess Consulting, at 239-503- 0619 for free clinical studies on the Effectiveness of Imagery. Email
Jasse.Success@
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BonitaHypnosis.com. See ad, page 11.
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