Athletes routinely use visualization or mental practice to enhance their performance. Using the imagination to achieve physical results has been found to have comparable results to the actual physical practice. This is possible because the nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.
Research Quarterly reported an experiment on the effects of mental practice (using visualization) on improving the skill of shooting basketball free throws. One group of students practiced shooting the free throws physically for 20 minutes a day, and were scored on the first and last days. A second group engaged in no pracicte and was scored on the first and last days. A third group was scored on the first day, then spent 20 minutes a day, imagining they were shooting free throws. When they missed they would imagine that they corrected their aim accordingly.
The first group (practiced shooting 20 minutes a day)improved their scoring by 24
percent.
The second group (had no practice) had no improvement.
The third group (practiced using their imagination) improved their scoring by 23 percent.
Just imagine if their was a fourth group who did physical practice as well as imagination...... Wonder what the results would have been with that group?
Use your imagination and create the mental picture of how you want your performance to go. Visualize how it would look and feel. It can go beyond an athletic peformance. Perhaps it can be used for speaking in front of a group of people or preparing for a job interview or use your imagination......
We are powerful beings. Use your imagination to create your performance, whether it is in sport or life. Visualize what you want and "run the movie" of how it would look. The key is to run the movie, visualize daily. Have fun!!!!
source of information comes from: THE NEW PSYCHO-CYBERGENITICS by Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
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