Visualization Miniseries #1
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Russian Spy Secrets from the Cold War Era
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Hey there!
It’s the start of an exciting new miniseries… this time on Visualization!
Visualizations is one of those things that are talked about all the time in the LOA circles. There’s so much emphasis on it that one could easily mistakenly believe that Attraction is all about visualization.
In this miniseries,we’re going to go over exactly what visualization is, why we do it, and how we do it.
Visualization has been around for a long time. Napoleon Hill wrote about it in the early 1900s. Wallace Wattles promoted it a generation before Hill.
If we keep chasing it back, we find visualization all through history, going back a couple of thousands and thousands of years to the Bible and some of the earliest known Buddhist and Taoist texts.
But it goes back even further than that. We can pretty safely say that for as long as living beings have had imagination and the capacity to dream, visualization has existed.
However, a huge leap in awareness came between the 1960s and 1980s when the Cold War colored the backdrop of the Olympics, making them the metaphorical battleground between Russia and the United States.
During this time period, the Russian and US governments became extremely interested in human psychology and studying ways to enhance performance.
In one study, Russian scientists varied the training regiment of four groups of Olympic athletes and comparted their results.
Group 1 had 100% physical training
Group 2 had 75% physical training with 25% mental training
Group 3 had 50% physical training with 50% mental training
Group 4 had 25% physical training with 75% mental training.
To their surprise, Group 4 significantly outperformed the rest and the Russians concluded that mental images can act as a prelude to muscular impulses.
Although it’s hard to confirm the Russian studies from that time period, the effectiveness can be seen in the results of the Russian athletes (and the US athletes as they soon caught on) during that era.
Today, visualization is a huge part of any Olympic athlete’s regimen. At every Olympic event, competitors can be seen with their eye closed and various body parts twitching as they perform their event in their heads.
So while visualization has been around for ages, and the Secret made it a nearly household term, it was the hard, concrete evidence of performance increases in the Olympics that truly boosted effective use of visualization.
And that’s what this miniseries is about: the practical and effective use of visualization.
Because, frankly, visualization as used by most students of the LOA, is little more than daydreaming.
May your visualizations never be the same!
Kane
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