Life Changing Mindset

Law of attraction work for my sports career?

I am a tennis player that is 16 years old. I am top 20 in the nation. I want to take it to the next level and i bleieve i can go pro and be top 5 nationlly by the end of this year. I believe in the law of attraction, but how do i put it to work? Do I just close my eyes and believe and imagine or do i say a few words before bed? Im not sure how it works but i do believe I am capable of anything!

Public Comments

1. lmao! u think a few words from us will do. U need to start growing in spirit and mind.
here's a few starting points
The Secret (overall summary, lost of rubbish but many find this a good book to start with, basically it's what's been written for trhousands of years)
meditate- trust me, you'll find your inner power and courage. meditate before a match too. I do it pregame for my football league, I play defense so I have to be alert and reading offense. (I'm 33 and in a league)
The Alchemist- great book on the law of attraction but it's not called that. The law of attraction was coined by people looking to get rich off books
read the teachings of Jesus (law of attraction here)
Herman Hesse books- Goldmund and Narcissus, Siddhartha
Thinking Positive
and many other relevant books (look on Amazon for those lists)
read auto-bios of great sports figures and people in history
I must have read over 20 books in the last year and all from teh local library. gotta love NYC

2. Sounds a bit like neuro-linguistic programming to me. A field that has not held up well to professional application of the rigor of science.

That said, visualization seems to be very effective in sports. The notion is that once your body learns how to do something, visualizing it being done successfully helps your mind get out of the way of your body, so it can do what it already knows how to do.

This can be useful in things like serving a tennis ball more consistently, hitting a golf shot where you want it to go, or kicking field goals. It's less useful in learning new strategies, new shots, new tactics, and improving your conditioning, and the speed of fast twitch muscles, etc.

3. The "law of attraction" does not work in this way. The only things that will help you are hard work, dedication, and confidence in yourself. Visualization is useful. If you cannot visualize yourself holding the Davis Cup, for instance, you never will. Also, you are apparently confusing philosophy with psychology. Philosophically, you must come to terms with whether winning is everything. At what price is it worth it?