If you talk about something as if it has already happened, it changes everything.
Because your mind stores it as a past event. So it sees it as a fact.
A while ago when I went to my second senior pool tournament, I was super nervous, and every time I went to tournaments I was worried, scared and nervous.
One day I went to the tournament but before I went, I talked about the tournament as if it had already happened.
So I started saying to a friend:
“Do you remember when I went to that tournament and everything went perfect for me? I don’t know what happened to me, but I started to play perfect and I started to feel really good, pocketing all the hard balls and putting the cue ball behind the next ball.”
As I kept talking like that, my mind started to see it as totally possible and I felt great.
Suddenly, the stress I had for a long time started to disappear.
That tournament was the first one I won at the senior level.
I made a change in my mentality, before I was telling myself things like:
And it was totally the opposite, because our mind does not understand the word NO.
My mind would play a video of those situations, for example: I imagined myself losing, I would hit the hard ones, I would miss the last balls.
Then I said to myself, what am I doing wrong? I practice every week but I don’t win the decisive games.
I changed my words, I changed the videos in my mind:
Negative thoughts will annoy you all the time, that’s why I want you to change the messages you tell yourself, talk and think positive.
Tell me about your experience when you say positive phrases to yourself?
Here you will be able to develop as a great pool player no matter your level.
