How To Defeat Fear and Anger

by Mohamed
(Cairo)

I am a junior who has experienced those two feelings (fear and anger) and before I didn't know how to deal with them.

But know I believe I have the keys to destroy them.

My first feeling was fear of losing to low ranked players. I was choking and when I lost to one of them and it was a nightmare.

But I sat down and talked to myself: "So, now you lost because you were afraid to lose, so why become afraid of these low ranked players when you can stand and fight the high ranked ones?"

So every time I play a low ranked player I concentrate on my game plan and I tell myself: "I am gonna attack and gonna win" and every thought of fear in my mind I just say "yeah right" and I forget it until my negative thoughts are destroyed.

The second problem was anger, it makes you ousted from the game for a while.

So when I approach a feeling of anger I try to use it positively by getting the strength of the anger into running fast and thinking right until the anger is gone and it helped me many times in danger of losing and I won.

And you will too if you try making your anger positive and behaving like a warior, a matador like Nadal, or a king like Federer.