Shape It In Your Mind

"Reality is that thing that even if you stop believing in it, it still doesn't go away." - David Martin

David(L) & partner bending an iron bar with "Mind Power"

One of the first lessons I learned in Taekwondo was that my mind is a powerful factor in everything I do, especially in things that seem to require physical strength.

My first attempts at board and brick breaking were memorable for sure. I recall trying to power through the target physically. It worked, at least at the lower levels.

However as I became more advanced in my training, I had to learn to use visualization, to use the power of my mind to see the results in advance. In this case, the result was the board(s), the bricks or the blocks breaking.

Every successful athlete that I know uses visualization to some degree.

Now, what about negative thoughts? Well, they do come around from time to time.

Here's what I learned from studying the Martial Arts:

The mind is like a fertile garden. It will grow anything you wish - beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

This is a great bit of information, but what do you do when the negative thoughts come? That's a real question based on real experience.

Here are a few quick techniques:

1. In your mind, write the negative thought(s) down on a piece of paper. Crumple it up, throw it in a trash bin, set it on fire and watch it burn.

2. See it in your mind; see yourself using whiteout to erase it from your mind.

3. Say, "STOP! You're not welcome here! BE GONE!"

Each of these will work to get the negative thought out quickly and then you MUST see yourself being successful. Visualize success not failure. It's important to follow the above techniques with an image of success or else you run the possibility of sliding back to the negative thought.

You use visualization everyday whether you are aware of it or not. Don't you feel it's time YOU chose the images that you want and deserve to see?

That choice is uniquely yours.

Best of Success,

David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
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