Let it go, that’s my key piece of advice for athletes or for anyone for that matter. Stop trying to get it right…
Relax and enjoy the process and the thing will guide you, rather than drag you through a miserable process of trying to measure up to something that doesn’t meet your mind's ideal.
Let go of your ideas and get into your body!
You’ve got to let it happen, otherwise the thing turns into a mechanical cluster fuck.
Flow is a natural state, you know when you are in it, because you are out of judgment and fully in the process. Every time you try and get it right, you get it wrong, because you’ve made yourself separate from it. Pushing, forcing, resisting, testing, measuring and judging; All of that is tension.
It’s based on an overcoming mentality and the result of that is mental overwhelm and physical underwhelm. You’ve got to start with a supple body; a loose, down-regulated physical state that can bend with the demand and adapt, adopt and absorb.
The supple body accepts the state of the play and flows with the demand. Rather than resist the state of play when it doesn’t meet the mind's perfect picture, it bends, reshapes, relaxes and learns.
If you stay with that, the body informs the mind that adaption is taking place. If you keep sending tense messages to the body, however, the body is going to adapt to the messages you send yourself and become tense, stiff and mechanical.
Take some notice of the internal messages you are threatening your body and peace with. I’m an advocate for athletes' rights. You have the right to thrive, grow, adapt and absorb.
Do something completely different and relax the threat, relax your body into the process and learn how to enjoy what you think is discomfort.
If you are choosing mental threat, you are choosing physical tension.
Growth is attitude, success is aptitude!
Gilesy
