Your UNCONSCIOUS is in charge!
On my ski courses, and whenever I am in conversation with ski instructors, I spend a great deal of time, stressing the importance of the mind, over the mere physique.
It is not enough to just attempt to “do”. Unless you have applied your mind before the “doing” phase, you are unlikely indeed to achieve what you want to achieve – or if you do it will likely be more luck than judgement.
The most important 150cms on any mountain, are those between your ears. If you do not have the clearest, and most precise of intentions, plus an advance awareness of how you will monitor the results of your intentions, you will get yourself stuck on the “plateau” before you know it.
This morning on the early morning BBC Radio 4 programme (which is really still called The Home Service but any of us who are really in the know) there was a fascinating piece about very recent neurological research.
It’s now possible for the neuro-scientists to monitor brain activity in real time, whilst observing the human subject, and some extremely interesting stuff is coming out of it.
The research referred-to has indicated that a full ten seconds before a subject becomes aware that (s)he has decided to perform an action, the unconscious mind has made that decision.
I haven’t yet had time to fully absorb and consider this, but to me the discovery (if real) is mind blowing, and has all sorts of potential implications.
If we are making decisions in ways of which – or at times of which - we are completely unaware, it almost seems to beg the question of “who’s in charge?”
It also perhaps makes it quite interesting from the point of view of how quickly we may need to consciously countermand an unconsciously made decision (and how much chance we have). This, especially if the decision made is a bad one, like burying an axe in someone’s head!
I would be really interested in any feedback anyone wishes to let me have on this, because if it does nothing else, it most certainly reinforces the proven fact that if we wish to master skiing (or anything else) then gaining more command over our subconscious minds is pivotal. Fortunately, it is also perfectly possible if you employ the techniques which I for one am so diligent in promoting.
Let me give you an example – some years ago I unintentionally upset, and lost as a client, a young woman who fell of a T-bar. What I did, was to say to her that I had seen the moment at which she had decided to fall off it. She was unaware that she had “made” this decision and got very upset about it, saying that it wasn’t her fault, somehow the T-bar, or the universe had made her do it.
Well, now I know, I had spotted the ten-second delay at work, but the neuro scientists hadn’t released the research findings back then.
Bob
