Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Can or can't?
Sweden's Stefan Holm leaping for the Gold in the Men's high jump event in 2004 Olympics. Photo by: Vino John. "If you think you can or can't, either way you are right."
Henry Ford, 1863-1947
I love this quote as it sums up so succinctly how our attitude or belief affects the outcome of our endeavours. I mean, have you ever heard a top athlete say, "I don't think I'm going to win this race." and then actually go ahead and win it? John Serle, philosopher took the principles of Visual Motor Rehearsal from the NASA space programme and introduced it to sport many years ago and now many top athletes will tell you that they give time to visualising themselves succeeding in their endeavours; winning the race and making the fastest time. Scientific experiments show that if an athlete at rest is wired up to a computer and then they close their eyes and visualise themselves as clearly as possible running and winning the race, the actual nerves in the correct muscles fire. The muscles are triggered by the thought despite the fact the athlete is actually at rest.
If you've got a difficult task ahead of you, whether it's a meeting, new job interview, project completion, athletic or sporting bid, a musical performance, a speech at a wedding or business conference or a reconciliation with an old friend, give some time to visualising it all turning out the way you'd like. See yourself successfully achieving it, being congratulated, applauded by smiling faces, hugging your friend with renewed affection, winning the race. Do not worry about it or visualise failure because you'll be programming that into your mind. You've got to keep your mind on what you do want because that's what you are energising. You experience in life what you think about and you become what you think about.
Every thought is energising a situation, so make sure you think of what you do want. I've written about this sort of thing before, but it's been an even greater focus of my own attention over the last few weeks, to my benefit. If you want to read more, see 'Want a new relationship?' or see the archive list on 'Law of Attraction'.
It's said that we only use around 5% of our mental capacity. That doesn't seem very much and one wonders what we could achieve if we could use more of it. It seems that anything may be possible.
"If you think you can or can't, either way you are right." .... Thank you, Mr Ford.
