Tennis Improvement Note 150: 'Mood, Temperament, and Feelings' Are Important

▶Physical movements, functions, and condition are influenced by the mind

To improve at tennis or play well in matches, above all else, your 'mood, temperament, and feelings' are important.

Above all else, that is.

More so than focusing on a swing that brushes up from bottom to top to apply topspin.

Physical movements, functions, and condition are influenced by your 'mood, temperament, and feelings'.

When your 'mood, temperament, and feelings' are good, your movements become smoother and sharper.

You also become more likely to gain flashes of insight and inspiration.

I think you can imagine that when your mood, temperament, and feelings are bad, the opposite happens.

You become sluggish or dull.

Your intuition stops working.

▶The reason why 'placebos' work

If you tell someone with a headache, 'This headache medicine is very effective,' and give them a candy, the headache improves.

If you tell someone, 'This is lacquer, so you will get a rash,' and apply plain water to their skin, they will get blisters.

This is proof that the mind affects the body.

It is no exaggeration to say that your 'mood, temperament, and feelings' can completely change the world you see and the life you experience.

▶Take care of your own temperament

So, how can you improve your 'mood, temperament, and feelings'?

'Take care of your own temperament' is what Sara Takanashi of Nordic ski jumping said.

However, in Buddhism, 'all existence is suffering' is taught.

It's not about being in a good mood; it's saying 'everything is suffering'...

That refers to the truth that, not limited to physical pain, the mind is default to being empty, lonely, sad, and boring.

▶Does it not get better unless it gets worse?

And the troublesome part is, as we know from experience, because 'mood, temperament, and feelings' are in a world of relativity, it is a standard rule that they improve 'when you get out of a bad state' (related article 'Depending on interpersonal relationships, you won't even worry about being 'unhealthy'?').

For example, when an illness or injury heals, you understand the value of health and your 'mood, temperament, and feelings' brighten.

When you find out that a wallet you had given up on as lost has been delivered to you, your 'mood, temperament, and feelings' soar.

In other words, the mind seems to be built so that 'it doesn't get better unless it gets worse first'.

This is a problem.

It doesn't get better unless it gets worse.

And our minds, in order to get better, 'dare to seek out stimuli (suffering) that make things worse'.

▶How to escape from the match-pump

How can we escape from this match-pump and keep our 'mood, temperament, and feelings' good by default?

If you do that, you will be the version of yourself that improves at tennis and plays well in matches by default!

Even if you say you are raising your 'mood, temperament, and feelings,' going to karaoke is, as mentioned here, 'after the festival,' and since you will be struck by the suffering of decay, it is not recommended.

※I don't mean to deny karaoke itself, but when your mind and body are depressed, going out to such lively places unnecessarily is, although it is something people tend to do, it is not necessarily the best strategy.

▶If you live a life with less stimulation, you will 'rise'!

If so, how about trying to keep a 'life with less stimulation' on a daily basis?

For example, if you are used to bland food, normal seasoning is gourmet (related article 'Bhutanese people have a 'constant zone constitution'').

If you listen to the sounds of nature, your 'mood, temperament, and feelings' are likely to rise with the music you hear occasionally.

If it goes well, as mentioned here, 'The sound of rain is Chopin's melody'.

▶'Are you energetic!'

Once again, 'mood, temperament, and feelings'.

'Are you energetic! If you have energy, you can do anything,' said the burning fighting spirit, Antonio Inoki.

That is more important than anything for improving at tennis and playing well in matches.

More so than focusing on a swing that brushes up from bottom to top to apply topspin.

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