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Prepare for Action with Mental Exercises

We should perform spiritual exercises to gain confirmation and make our actual life more in line with our ideal life goals.

-- "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"

In the stadium, we often see such a scene: the players are often talking about something before going on the field.Is there any formula for winning?A gymnastics coach explained: "The reason why athletes chanting is because they are meditating on the movements after going on the court, which can reduce the failure rate of movements."

In fact, this magical mantra is the "mental exercise" in psychology, and it is also a successful method advocated by Mr. Covey in "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".When people clearly outline in their minds the process of reaching their goals and the picture of success after they have achieved success, success will really come to people.

This is an effective method of psychological motivation. Although it may sound unbelievable, scientists have proved its reliability through experiments.

As we all know, football makes Europeans fanatical, while basketball makes Americans boil. Many American children join the school basketball team with the dream of entering the NBA and strive to improve their basketball skills.

Scientists once did an experiment on a middle school basketball team in Florida:

They divided players with similar levels into three groups, and then asked the first group to stop practicing free shooting for a month; the second group practiced shooting in the gymnasium for an hour every afternoon for a month; Imagine practicing free throws for an hour, and the time is also a month.

After a month, the scientists began to accept the results of the basketball team's practice.As expected in the first group, the average shooting percentage dropped from 39% to 37% due to lack of practice. The results of the three groups are amazing: these players who only rely on imagination to practice shooting have the highest shooting percentage, from 39% to 41%.

The results were astonishing: the players who practiced their imaginary shots had the highest shooting percentages and the fastest progress.

It can be seen from this that mental exercise has great power. Not only athletes can use this method to improve their success rate, but ordinary people can also use it to complete their goals as soon as possible.In order to obtain the most satisfactory result, everyone should rehearse the process of action in his mind before acting, the more carefully the better, so as to take into account all the methods and ways leading to the established result, and fully anticipate the action. Be prepared for possible setbacks.

Preparation for action is both physical and spiritual.A person who is unprepared must be a person who makes mistakes constantly. Even if he has super ability and golden opportunity, it cannot guarantee success.Inadequately considered and insufficiently prepared actions throw everything into chaos and risk failure.

Mr. Covey provides specific methods for people to perform mental exercises: take free time, maintain inner peace, and through deep breathing and muscle relaxation techniques, close your eyes and think about the next step by step in a state of complete relaxation of body and mind. What might happen during the action, and how you should react.The more detailed and clear the scenario, the better.

For example, if you are going to participate in a debate tomorrow, then you can imagine in your mind what preparations you have to do before going on the field, what color clothes to wear, what kind of hairstyle to wear, what kind of communication you need to have with your teammates, and what you might do after you go on the field. Mistakes and questions that the other party may ask... Even when the audience will applaud should be considered.

For another example, if you are going to participate in a tennis match tomorrow, you may wish to relax and imagine the scene of the match, and imagine the details of each serving action: throwing the ball, raising the racket, swinging the racket... The more vivid the details of the imagination, the clearer the image in your mind , the more you can deeply understand that feeling, as if you are on the scene.In such mental exercises, people can repeatedly remember their own muscle movements, single or continuous movements in images, and realize technical improvement in imagination.

"Every mistake is due to lack of preparation, and every success is due to adequate preparation." This sentence is the best interpretation of the meaning of "mental exercise".Unexpected results can also be obtained by imagining the actions to be implemented.

(End of this chapter)