Sometimes you must remember.

[I rack balls]

Idk what that was

 

[pfduser]

You are just hitting a ball with a cue at another ball and you are trying to make it into one of six holes in a table. Stop thinking about your stroke, staying down, parallel aiming, back hand english, cue ball deflection, humidity, rail speed, pocket size, the hot chick in the corner, your job, your broke ass, your car, your life, and play pool.

Eric.

When I practice I'm aware of about half that list(stroke,staying down,etc..)
When I'm actually in a match I don't let that stuff creep in my mind.I just try to play in the subconscious state.Practice=conscious and match play=subconscious.Don't know if that makes any since!lol

 

[str8schuter]

Self-help?

Is this AZB therapy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation

Meditation is generally an internally-invoked, personal practice, which an individual can do by themselves. Prayer beads or other ritual objects may be used during meditation. Meditation may involve invoking or cultivating a feeling or internal state, such as compassion, or attending to a specific focal point. The term can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state.[4]

You are just hitting a ball with a cue at another ball and you are trying to make it into one of six holes in a table. Stop thinking about your stroke, staying down, parallel aiming, back hand english, cue ball deflection, humidity, rail speed, pocket size, the hot chick in the corner, your job, your broke ass, your car, your life, and play pool.

Eric.

 

[hang-the-9]

You are just hitting a ball with a cue at another ball and you are trying to make it into one of six holes in a table. Stop thinking about your stroke, staying down, parallel aiming, back hand english, cue ball deflection, humidity, rail speed, pocket size, the hot chick in the corner, your job, your broke ass, your car, your life, and play pool.

Eric.

I agree with the last half of the list, but mostly not the first half (the part that actually has to do with the execution of the hit). You need to shoot shots differently depending on the situation if you want to play past a C level. You may not want to be actively thinking about this mid-shot, but you sure do need to tell yourself that the dirty balls on bouncy rails in 103 degree heat will need something different than your perfect home table.

 

[Catahula]

Just sayin'

When I stop thinking about the "hot chick in the corner" you can start shoveling the dirt in on top of me.

 

[onepocketron]

Practice/drills are for practice and "mechanics". For me, the walking and chalking around the table time are for thinking and planning. Once I have made up my mind what to do, and how to do it, then I get over the cue ball and excecute.
If I find myself "thinking" when down on the cue ball, or am unsure of my aim, I have to get up and start all over again. The worst thing I can do is start making "adjustments" (whether mental of physical) when down on the cue ball.