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The Inner Game

Posted on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 16:58 by Registered CommenterJenny Littlejohn in | Comments Off

I have recently started to re-read The Inner Game of Tennis, reading it now as a coach, I realise just how much of Gallwey's philosophy applies to everything we do in life. He talks a lot about the idea of having 2 'selfs' - self1 being the teller and self2 the doer and that if we would just trust self2 to know and do what what is right with out constant interference and instruction from self1, then we would more often be in a state of flow, rather than one of contast tension and resistance.

Thinking about a particular work situation - maybe you have a report to write and self2 knows exactly what to do, in fact it has all the resources it needs to do it perfectly well, but self1 keeps interfering with messages like 'you haven't got a clue where to start with this' or there's no point in trying as it'll be total rubbish and noone will want to read it' or maybe 'you know you're useless at writing reports, how can you put it off ...............' If you find anything similar happening to you, then close your ears to self1 and 'just do'!

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