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  Date / Time: 4/17/2009 7:51 PM UTC

  How will Mental Concentration affect my PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES?
  

  How will Mental Concentration affect my PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES, such as helping with mental toughness in weightlifting - the mental anxieties and such - how will it help me overcome some of those issues? I do power lifting and there are times when I don't want to go because of some of the physical pain, anxiety, and procrastination that come with it. --Damon in California
  
  
            One of the things that ties PHYSICAL and MENTAL training together is that the effort needed to develop your Mental Concentration past the average levels of the general population requires the same level (or MORE) of Mental Resolve necessary for passionate weight training.  When a person sits down in a quiet room and "takes on" their own Mind (thereby, their own BRAIN) in order to move it from a lower level to a higher level and then to an even higher level in strength, endurance, and flexibility, they are PUSHING the same sorts of Psychological boundaries that a person has to move through in order to acquire expert proficiency in more strenuous forms of athletics.
  
            One of the lessons taught in The Neuro-Sculpting!©  Training Studio is 'OVERCOMING MENTAL RESISTANCE'.  The lessons contained therein pertain to what we call 'The Four Horsemen Of Mental Resistance, which are:
  
      1)  Wandering Thoughts
      2)  Impulsivity
      3)  Outside interruptions
      4)  Mental Fatigue
  
            Through Mental Concentration training, one learns the nature of a cognitive performance limit - how far a person can push himself mentally in any given type of mental exertion - and how to break through such limits in practice.
  
            The first thing a person runs into when they begin to train is a DISOBEDIENT MIND!  People are stunned to discover that when they sit down for their first session and task their brain to accomplish a specific task for a given duration, THEIR MIND HAS NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN OBEYING THEIR COMMAND!  The Mind tends to be a busy, noisy, chaotic, thought-spitting machine filled with ideas and emotions and daydreams and desires.  So, when we try to control that and get the Mind to hold steady in order to complete a simple mental task, we are literally fighting against Psychological forms of WEIGHT, and in order to succeed we require special types of mental EXERTION.
  
            Now, in lifting weights, you have PHYSICAL exertion and there may be pain and discomfort.  When I started hitting the gym pretty hard last year, the first obstacle I encountered was physical discomfort, but that was not the worst pain I had to endure.  The worst pain I had to endure WAS MY OWN MIND crying for me to QUIT, for me to GIVE UP, for me to FIND SOMETHING ELSE more entertaining for it to do.  My own Mind would present to me (in the form of distracting thoughts and associated desire) unproductive alternatives to what was essentially my True Will, my True Purpose, that is, to get into fantastic physical shape.  Thus, my Mind was working AGAINST me.
  
            In any physical activity that a person wants to become quite good at, the biggest obstacle is not going to be physical - it's going to be MENTAL!  If you make a priority to develop your Mental Concentration and your Mental Focus, then you will thereby learn to control the problem of Mental Resistance.  Master high levels of control over Mental Resistance, and you'll have much less of an issue dealing with Physical Resistance.  Using brain training exercise methods as featured in the Neuro-Sculpting!© Training Studio results in profound PHYSICAL changes (strengthening, growth) among brain cells.  Thus, the Mental Training ACTS as Physical Training.
  
            You will have no greater enemy on the face of the earth - when it comes to your life goals - than your own Mind when it is not aligned with your Will, with your TRUE, BEST desire for yourself.
  
            If you can turn your Attention away from being distracted by meaningless things out in the world, and turn that Attention to the task of MASTERING YOUR OWN THOUGHTS, there is nothing that will be beyond you.  Anyone who rules their own thoughts rules their own life.  You can then set your own course and be totally confident that you will get there.
  
  T. Lavon Lawrence
  Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
  The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
  www.neuro-sculpting.com
  trainer@neuro-sculpting.com
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