How to pivot a string of mistakes
When you’re on fire, everything goes your way. Every movement. Every shot.
When you make a few mistakes in a row, every mistake seems to feed off of the previous one. Even shots that make it across the net, inside the lines, feel like bad decisions of placement and pace.
This is momentum. When things are good, more good things happen. Or we view events from a positive perspective. We’re in a high vibration state of being, and we attract high vibration moments to us.
When we’re feeling low, we attract that same kind of energy to us. And it can be hard to stop the momentum of mistakes and feeling bad about our tennis game once we get on that kind of roll.
If you’re finding it difficult to get out of a losing-point run by changing your thoughts, turn it around by doing a short, physical exercise.
Just breathe.
Take a moment and inhale through your nose, expanding your diaphragm, for a count of five. Then exhale through your mouth for another count of five.
This simple exercise will take your mind off of your errors while you’re engaging in focused breath.
When you’re turning your attention to your breath and the counting, you are being in the present moment, instead of focusing on all your past mistakes.
When you’re in the present moment, you don’t have a story you’ve told yourself about the past. So, you won’t be able to project that story and those expectations onto the future of the next point.
Remember, if you need a reset, you don’t have to force it through sheer will. Just stop, breathe, and pivot.
