The How's And Whys Of Your Inner Workings-The Brain (part 3)
MIND PRACTICING: Visualization, it's been around ever since athletes were tested on their physical skills. It is mentally rehearsing the moves and timing necessary to achieve a superior level of performance. The training of visualization stresses three steps: setting a goal, learning to relax and visualizing a successful outcome. Controversy of players exists. Some learn by watching a film or video, others feel they learn more by feel (doing), than an image. Since the brain can be fooled easily - to think it's performing a function when it is actually not, under visualization, specific movement performance techniques or personal endeavors create neural patterns in the brain. The more you see it mentally, the more ingrained these neural patterns become. Since it's the brain that tells the muscles what to do when and how to move, the stranger the neural pattern, and the more perfect the movement. ...