SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “My body is going to betray me mid-game”, including the private rule underneath it: Underneath this thought: my body is a separate system that can fail me without consulting me first, and the only defense is supervising it constantly during play, as if it might slip a decision past me the moment I stop watching it.
QUIET
“My body is going to betray me mid-game” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “My knee isn't waiting to surprise me. It already showed me what it can do, in every drill that got me back here.”
PRESENT
“My body is going to betray me mid-game” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “The plant isn't a test my body might fail tonight. It's a rep my body has already passed hundreds of times since the brace came off.”
ACTIVE
“My body is going to betray me mid-game” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Alone, off the court, do ten unweighted lateral bounds landing on the repaired leg and silently count each clean landing.
DOMINANT
Right now, “My body is going to betray me mid-game” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Alone, off the court, do ten unweighted lateral bounds landing on the repaired leg and silently count each clean landing.