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When Athletes and Artists Achieve Their Top Results By Boris Vene © 2003 Boris Vene Top athletes and artists know the state that helps them achieve top results. Psychologists call it a state of great enthusiasm or a state of altered consciousness. Athletes call it "the zone". It happens during the moments of your greatest pleasure; when you forget everything around you and allow yourself to go with the flow, get into the zone, contact your higher self, etc. Your conscious mind rests in the background and doesn't give any instructions. It is interesting that champions have defined this state of "ecstasy" as the greatest reward, over glory, prestige or medals. Looking at when such perfect performances happen, you will discover that they only happen when you're not burdened with how you will perform. The "routine" of your experience carry you through. This heightened state will remain as long as you don't think about the results. It happens all the time in sports - someone who is not in the top ranking defeats everyone above them and wins the competition. They continued anyway, knowing they had no chance to win, and thus freed their mind of all fears of defeat and delivered the best performance of their career. It happens in classrooms, offices and boardrooms as well. The football player standing in front of the opposite goal experiences exactly this. He quiets his self-talk, doesn't say, "Watch what you're doing. Aim, look at where you'll shoot." He trusts his experience and mentally leaves himself to his performance. Just moments before scoring, he "sees" in his mind how the event will end and the subconscious takes care of a myriad of tiny details and corrections that enable him to kick the ball the way he envisioned. If, amid this complex process, he consciously starts thinking about it - the automatic flow of the process stops. Having to now think about the myriad of details and body adjustments that go into kicking a field goal himself, he will probably fail. Have you ever been walking and suddenly become aware of the process? It's hard to walk when you are actually thinking about it. Shamans of the ancient tribes said, "Everything is possible after disconnecting from the internal dialog in your head" - the "discussion" between the subconscious ("I'll win") and conscious mind ("You? No way! Don't you see others are better!"). Probably the most well-known example is a historic anecdote that shows how the subconscious offers a solution at the most inappropriate moments. Archimedes, the Sicilian physicist, was taking a bath when his subconscious delivered the solution to a long-puzzling mathematical problem. He was so excited he ran naked through the streets yelling, "Eureka! Eureka!" (I have found [it].) ~ V Pollio, De Architectura ix, 215. Successful businesspeople know this secret and therefore plan their holidays with the same care they take in their work. An aphorism is born: The result is a consequence of rest, not just work. What prevents so many others from acting this way? They don't yet believe that their subconscious will help them detect problems and offer them solutions. Instead, they let their intellect decide. You know, however, that often the best solutions are those that first seemed impossible. We can even say that you "find" the solution once you forget about the problem. When you are not burdened with the outcome, you don't pay much attention to the problem and it is then the subconscious mind does its best work. Working tirelessly for you, your subconscious brings about all the necessary conditions for the successful realization of the solution to your problem. The next time you are searching your mind for an answer that you know is right on the tip of your tongue, instead of repeating over and over, "I can't think of it. It's right on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember." Just say, "It will come to me in a minute" and consciously think about something else. Your subconscious WILL deliver the answer, eventually, and will prove to you how priceless this system of yours is and as it works to fulfil your every expectation! This explains the anecdote: "Lucky in cards but unlucky in love." Those who fall into this category are so preoccupied with thinking about how to solve personal problems that they don't think about the card game in front of them and just let the game happen. Not forcing the victory consciously allows them to win naturally. Boris Vene is the co-author of the best-selling The Millionaire Mindset. If you are wondering what the greatest obstacle to your success is and how to overcome it, visit his web site today! |