The musician will need to take extra care to make sure he rebuilds his self-image and confidence. How do you do that? You understand that you are not a helpless victim of misfortune. You don’t have to be a prisoner of a bad experience. You make sure you continually feed useful, positive thoughts to the subconscious. If one of my golfing clients has a problem with skulling or chunking pitch shots, I often advise him to begin keeping a notebook in which he records every good pitch shot he hit during the day, even in practice. The act of writing down a thought about a successful shot helps
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