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    Playing Zen-Sational Baseball
    Playing Zen-Sational Baseball
    Playing Zen-Sational Baseball
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    Playing Zen-Sational Baseball

    By David Ranney

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    Why Go Another Day Not Being Able To Hit the Ball Or Striking Out Over and Over?

    Do You Think Being Mentally Tougher Will Help You Play Better?

    Using Zen principles, like being in the present moment, non-judgment, enhanced focus, awareness and letting your body flow are centuries old ideas that lead to peak performances. The lessons in my book will help you achieve these states of being. It’s time to reach your potential! Get going on improving not just your hitting, but your whole baseball game. Can you see yourself making more hits, making fewer errors, and helping your team win more games?

    You will learn how to:

    • Make better contact with the ball when batting
    • Focus when you are at bat
    • Breathe properly when batting, pitching, throwing and catching
    • If you are a pitcher, be more consistent and throw more strikes using a routine that really works
    • Get out of batting slumps
    • Make fewer errors
    • Perform better when under pressure

    David Ranney is an author, professional speaker, baseball, basketball & tennis coach and entrepreneur.

    As a junior tennis player, he was ranked nationally 6th in Singles and 3rd in doubles, represented the U.S. at Junior Wimbledon, and played tennis for the University of Southern California when they were National Champions. However, after years of playing with intense frustration, he took two tennis lessons from Tim Gallwey, Author of The Inner Game of Tennis. That experience changed his life forever. He coaches athletes of all ages in peak performance techniques. He lives in Bellingham, Washington.

    Visit David's Website: www.PurePerformanceSports.com

    With this book as your guide, let David Ranney show you how to reach your potential.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Ranney
    Release dateJun 2, 2012
    ISBN9781490504018
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      Playing Zen-Sational Baseball - David Ranney

      SECTION NO 1: Introduction to the Mental Game

      Welcome and congratulations for taking the first step in mastering the Mental Game of baseball by buying this book! You are about to learn some concepts and techniques that will absolutely improve your game big time. That is, if you read these lessons and then work on the ideas and skills presented.

      OK, it may take some time and nothing substitutes for lots of practice, but you will learn faster and achieve a higher level of skill than using the traditional methods only.

      As you may know, I do not get into the actual mechanics of how to hit a ball when at bat, or how to throw or catch a ball. There are so many great coaches out there that can teach you that. Here I will be giving you mental concepts and techniques only. (Some of which will help your swing when at bat.)

      I also want you to know what you can do to fix things when you start missing too many balls or when you make a throwing or fielding error. You want to be able to make these fixes right now and not wait for the next game or the next 5 games to get back your groove.

      Think of these lessons like you were taking a college course and you had to have a textbook. Then your instructor would have you go through it one lesson at a time and have you actually learn it and do it.

      By reading these lessons, I will be guiding you through in the order that I believe makes the most sense. There are no time issues unless you are in a hurry to improve. Just read and do the lessons at your own pace.

      The real questions for you are these. Are you ready to change? Are you ready to remake your game and become a phenomenal player? If you will do the things in these lessons, you will have to improve. Guaranteed. Not only will your entire game improve but, guess what? You’ll probably enjoy playing even more!

      So, what is this Zen stuff all about? The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word Chán which can be approximately translated as meditation or meditative state.

      No, you don’t have to go to India, Japan or China and sit in a cave to learn to meditate because I will give you everything you need to do and know in this book.

      Plus, these lessons will be in simple terms, they will be easy to understand, and for the most part the lessons are very short.

      I know a person who is a Zen Buddhist. One day I asked him how he practiced being one. He said he did a lot of meditations and I asked him to give me an example. He said that he would just sit quietly and listen to all the sounds around him with no thoughts or judgments, but just being aware of them.

      Well, guess what? This is what I have you do in many of my lessons, except you are being aware of what is happening not only on the field and when you are at bat but also what is going on inside of you that may be interfering with you playing your very best and what is helping you play your very best. And, of course, this is all happening without judgments.

      In order to really play baseball at its highest level, we must figure out how to attain a meditative state of mind. In this book, I will give you  

      many things to focus (meditate) on and many ideas as to how you can achieve your goal of playing the best that you are capable.

      This is a process that will never end, but I can promise you that if you will learn to play the way I lay out for you in this book, you will find playing ever so much more fun and rewarding. Not to mention playing much better.

      Before I get into these lessons, let me tell you a little about me and how I got started teaching the Mental Game and the best lesson I ever received.

      About David Ranney And The Best Lesson I Ever Received

      Here is my story about how I got into playing tennis and teaching the Mental Game.

      I started playing tennis tournaments when I was 10 years old. When I was about 13 I started taking lessons from a teaching pro named Dick Skeen. Dick was a renowned pro and his big claim to fame was teaching Jack Kramer and my Mom who was No. 1 in Orange County for a number of years. Shortly after I started learning from Dick I started to win more matches and tournaments.

      I was ranked No. 2 in Southern California in the 15 & Under. I was ranked No. 2 in Southern California in the 18 & Under.

      I was nationally ranked No. 6 in Singles as a Junior

      I was nationally ranked No. 3 in Doubles as a Junior

      I had the honor of representing the U.S. at Junior Wimbledon where I got to the Semi-finals. I lost to the Russian, which was the last person I wanted to lose to because in those days we were in the middle of the cold war. Can you guess why I maybe didn’t play very well? If you don’t know, you will know after reading this book. To give you a little hint, it was because I tried way too hard to win.

      I played on the Junior Davis Cup team

      I played on the USC tennis team with Dennis Ralston, Stan Smith and Bob Lutz to name a few and the three years I lettered varsity we were National Champions.

      As you can see I was a pretty good tennis player, but not a great one.

      But, I had a big problem. My attitude stunk and I was very negative. I used to yell and scream on the tennis court because I would get so incredibly frustrated. I thought that if I could only stroke the ball perfectly I would never miss. But of course, I couldn’t do that every time.

      As a result of my attitude being horrible, I hated myself for getting so angry and frustrated, but I couldn’t stop. I had no idea why I played badly at times or why I played well sometimes, and I didn’t have a clue as to how to turn my game around when I wasn’t playing well. I never beat players who were just a little better than I was. Remember I told you that I was ranked No. 2 in Southern California in the 15 and 18 and under? Well, a player named Jerry Cromwell was the one who was ranked No. 1 and I never ever beat him, and you can imagine how many times I played him.

      After college, I began teaching tennis the traditional way until my conversion to teaching the Inner Game of Tennis when I was in my 30s. One day I was reading the LA Magazine about an

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