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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by tennis tom[/i] [br]I had a breakthrough yesterday regarding my hip pain. I had no pain for a week because I had rested it due to being in bed with the flu for a week. I was heartened that it was gone when I returned to my daily tennis practice for a few days, along with great concentration on good footwork technique. Then on Saturday I got stuck playing against two guys I totally don't like. Bottom line, they are NO FUN! Bad calls and controlling. My limp returned. But instead of blaming it on my "arthritic" hip I blamed it on having to be around two people that are bad sports and downers. I attended a pleasant Christmas party that night and was limping discernably and just wanted to settle onto the couch, which I did due to the hip pain. Sunday morning I always look forward to hitting the court and smacking balls. I was concerned about my sore hip and disappointed that the pain had returned--should I be resting it instead? I went out, as is my wont, to see what would happen. The Sunday morning challenge court guys, are the usual band of mis-fits that just show up like me, who don't like making appointments to "play". They do 100 things wrong on the tennis court and don't care to learn how to play correctly. But, if I'm not playing in a Senior tournament, where the real players are, them I'm stuck with the mis-fits and psychos on the challenge court. I decided not to let the psychos get to me this morning. I would just do my thing, work on my game and not give too much concern for the outcome and the score. I would be super nice and positive. No external show of disapproval at my opponents who can't see, hear or remember. I would view it as the human comedy. IT WORKED! I played for three hours and my pain never came up. I was distracted by concentrating on improving my technique and not being drawn in to the usual head games with the psychos. The funny thing was my positive outlook was rubbing off on my partners and opponents and they behaved in a much more civilized manner than is their norm. I was heartned that my limp melted and pain was not the usual nagging issue that it normally is. Thinking TMS emotionaly worked. I worked on my issues and ignored my opponents slew of mis-behaviors. I concentrated on my emotions and keeping them positive. That's all you can do. It is futile and only frustrating to think that you will be able to change the personalities of those you encounter except by the osmosis of setting a good example. Changing one's own personality is difficult enough. To try to change someone else's will only fuel the reservoir of internal rage and create psychogenic pain. View the glass as half full rather than half empty, to erase pain. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.