Here is a link to some awesome articles on the mental game of golf. All that is discussed in these articles can easily translate itself over to pool. http://www.mindtrainingforgolf.com/golfarchive.html
So its almost ten yrs since this original post but this topic will never die.
HAPPY NEW YRS TO YOU ALL....
That is why they call some people professionals. Not because they make money at what they do, but because they have perfected what they do to become consistent at a certain level. Keep working and know that the human mind and body can never be in top form all the time. Perfectly normal. It is the skill and the training that makes up for this.
Perfectly normal. Life goes in cycles. One day you're up, the next day you're down. Take my second wife (please) for example. She was down about twenty-six days out of every month. :smile: