When we train, sometimes we psych ourselves up to be prepared for "battle" and fight the exercise(s) that stand in our way of becoming a stronger version of ourselves in physical form. What we envision takes action and at times, surprises us with results we didn't expect. As I go into a workout, I don't expect a damn thing but I do want to discover that hidden strength that fuels the fire within me to keep going even though I don't always express it from the outside.
When I started back on the Matt Furey Exercise Bible, I just wanted to see if I was still capable of doing it after being away from it for quite some time. I kept picturing myself as if it never left me and pretended I was like one of the Hindu Wrestlers, training for the next series of matches and thought of nothing but my conditioning and the way I saw myself breathing and making the exercises not about speed but about precision and awareness. I have so far done this workout everyday for 9 straight days without fail which is the most consistent in years.
As each day passed and kept beating the deck, I started using different techniques to not only protect myself from injury but use mental imagery and literally put certain electrical spheres around my body as if I had something in my hands even though there was nothing there. I naturally gravitated to Garin Bader's CoreForce Energy System and it paid off big time as it increased my strength and endurance really fast. With that in mind, I'm also naturally setting another bar to my repertoire of conditioning my mind to get better not only for this particular workout but for whatever else outside of it.
For a while in the past, I did the Theater Of The Mind technique with my own version of how I saw things play out and set it in motion. From workouts to writing to even picturing as if I was sitting next to fictional characters from comics and mythology and they talk me through what they see for me and how I can apply what they see. Yeah, it sounds that i'm whacked out and off my rocker but that's just how my mind operated and it worked. Seeing yourself as more than what you are is what we all strive to accomplish, many of us see far less than our true selves and when we think that way, it transitions into our reality. Our imagination is a powerful tool that shouldn't be taken too lightly and the more we learn to understand it and learn from it, the better our way of seeing the world becomes.
When we think of something bad, it shifts to how we view the world and see bad things happen all around us even though at times nothing ever happens in front of us. I do realize people come from broken homes and have seen shit nobody should ever go through yet some of those very same people saw something entirely different in their mind and despite the anger, the heartache, the abuse and the torture, they became successful and transformed themselves into amazing human beings. The opposite has also happened, people who come from happy homes have had visions of a bad world and it consumed them so much they became broken and prisoners of their own reality.
Practicing the Theater Of The Mind technique isn't easy and it's not something you can learn in a day, it takes time, patience, concentration and above all, a sense of awareness of what you see. My way of the technique was that I would picture myself as if I was in a movie theater but instead of being there by myself, I sat next to certain characters say like Pan the Satyr for example; he would show me what I was and will be at my very best not only in how strong and conditioned I was but showed me my writing style getting better and seeing more and more by people who were not only interested but learned from it. Someone can have a very different technique in this method and make themselves the strongest version of themselves.
What if you can picture as if you were Superhuman? Be able to accomplish things with very little to no effort, absorb energy that is full of life, powerful electricity running through you and feel as if you can do anything you set your mind to. It doesn't matter if you're a waiter, a businessman, an athlete, someone who wants to get in shape or a garbage man; if you can see yourself at your absolute best with no limitations, how far does it go? We have the power to become stronger than we have normally perceived to be and the more we see and believe in what is in our Theater Of The Mind, the more it'll transition into our physical reality. In our imagination, we can be whatever we want, do things we don't physically do and be able to say something as if it was so easy it's not even funny. Think of it as mental steroids.
Harness this technique with your own goals and ambitions and see where it leads you. Become more powerful in your business, get stronger and better at your sport, feel music like never before and if you even happen to be a Pizza Delivery person, picture what it would be like to be the very best in that profession. The power is within you and it's time to become the best version of yourself.
1 comment:
Good article Ben,people with a reasonable amount of intelligence will understand what you are getting at. Visualisation often gets me through a workout. But be prepared to be mocked as usual by the braindead turds at the Asshole Mongo Men forum, those hypocrites will mock your use of accepted visualisation techniques as stupid, but of course they won't mock their buddy called MACKY on that demented forum, who believes his late wife can speak to him through wild birds and his practice of Tai Chi enables him to see through curtains and walls. LOL!
Keep training and writing dude.
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