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The 6 Secrets to Applying the Mind-Body Connection (Part 4)

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(…continued from last week)

Full Sensory System

Another aspect of mind-body connection strategies is full sensory systems.

Oxford University Athletic Department had been experimenting with various ways of applying the mind-body connection to improving athletic performance.

They put together a group of 150 student volunteers who had never before shot a rifle. They tested them all to see what their baseline performance in shooting was. They then split them up into three groups with approximately same level of performers in each.

One group was told to practice daily, 25 to 50 shots at a target. The second group was told not to practice at all, and to do no shooting between the initial test, and the re-test in 30 days. The third group practiced only 2 actual shots at targets per day, but they had them engage their mind with the process.

Group three, who practiced only 2 actual shots per day, mentally practiced successfully shooting for 10 minutes. They would imaging sighting the gun and hitting the bull’s-eye over and over.

Group one who practiced daily for a half an hour improved on average 50% over a period of 30 days. Group two who shot initially the first day and came back and shot again in 30 days didn’t do any better nor worse.

Everyone in group three who took only 2 shots per day, and then mentally practiced, had an average of 150% improvement. They went from being poor at hitting the targets to hitting the bulls-eye at least 50% of the time. There was 150% improvement in their skills, a 100% over and above the group who practiced physically every day. Why? Because they used their mind as well as their body.

The Multi-Sensory Approach

There are three central components to putting your mind to work for you: what you see, what you hear and what you feel.

The group that they had shoot then practice mentally for ten minutes, created a detailed multi-sensory experience.

See

They would see the gun in their hands. They could see the sight mechanism of the gun. They could see the target out ahead of them. They would mentally imagine raising the gun up, putting it against their shoulder, sighting down the barrel through the sight on the top of the rifle. They would then see exactly what it would look like as the bullet left the end of the barrel and struck the target in the bull’s-eye. They would see this in vivid detail, successfully hitting the target.

Hear

What did they mentally hear? They heard the sound of the gun going off. They could hear the sound the rifle made every time they shot. They could hear the sound of shoes crunching in the gravel as they were standing there, hearing the sound of the gun going off. They could hear the sounds of their breathing. Maybe hear the rustling of their own clothes.

Feel

What did they feel? They could feel the gun up against their shoulder. They could feel the recoil of the gun as it went off. They could feel what it felt like to be relaxed and at ease while they slowly squeezed the trigger, so the gun fired exactly the way they wanted. No jerkiness in the squeezing the trigger to cause any wavering in the sight.

So they would practice for ten minutes the seeing down the sight at the target, while they felt the gun up against themselves, felt the recoil, felt what it felt like to slowly squeeze the trigger, while they heard the sound of the gun, they felt and heard the sounds their body made, as they stood in the gravel. As a result, their performance went way up, why? Because they could hear it, they could see it, they could feel it.

Use Your Entire System

This is a core component of the mind-body connection. You’ve got to see, hear and feel it. You’ve got to make it come alive in your mind through as many senses as possible.

It’s been shown neurologically that you have the least amount of neurons firing in your brain if you’re lying down, you have more neurons firing if you’re sitting, you have more neurons firing when you’re standing, and you have more neurons firing when you’re standing and moving.

Apply the mind-body connection. Get your body out of your chair. See the sights, hear the sounds, feel what your body feels like as you stand there doing whatever it is you’re imagining doing. When you get the mind and the body connected your chances of success go up significantly.

When I’m working with someone on changing a behavior, we will often times do it standing, because of the reasons just explained. I’ll have them envision what’s going on but I’ll have them on their feet. As they picture what they want to achieve they can feel themselves standing strong, they can feel what their physiology feels like. They can notice what it’s like to be there and picture in their mind as they hear positive self-talk, and hear me saying positive things about their success. The mind-body connection creates that engrained pattern quicker and easier than ever before when you can see it, hear it and feel it.

Mental Survival

From the late 1940s up through the early 1960s, there were over a hundred thousand individuals who had been in German concentration camps, interviewed about their experience.

What the doctors who were interviewing these concentration camp survivors found about their health, about their families, the way they were treated, the experience in the concentration camp, was monumental.

They found that those individuals who felt strongly they had a reason to live, who could see a good tomorrow, who could feel in their body that things were going to be okay, that had positive self-talk like “I can make it through this. It’s going to be okay. I’ll come out the other side, and it will be alright.” Those individuals who had that positive focus and positive feeling inside of themselves, did better and survived longer, than did all of their companions around them.

On average they lost less weight, they tended to have sicknesses less of the time, and they overall were able to deal with the abuse, the problems in the concentration camp faster, easier and better because they knew there was going to be a positive tomorrow. They could feel it in their body. They could see it in their mind. They mentally talked about it inside of their heads.

(to be continued…)


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