Visualizing performance before the act is common in sports. The mind is powerful beyond understanding, and when we harness it, we begin our entrance into the spiritual world. In sports, this is referred to as the sweet spot, when there is no separation between self and performance flow. Athletes lie very still, close their eyes, and use a command of the mind to visualize every intimate detail of their future event. And, when they step into the event, they enter another world, in which movement and intentional visualization combine.
When you visualize an outcome before you engage in it, you signal your muscle organization to shape in specific ways under stress. The more you lay down these future signals, the more your body can organize and take you to a new level at the moment. As this ritual gets more familiar, you become ready to add visualization as you move.
For example, washing dishes. Invest in visualizing every movement involved in washing dishes. Lifting, turning faucets, squirting dish liquid, scrubbing, rinsing, and placing items in a drying rack. Expand your visuals to encompass what you actually do when you “wash the dishes”. Then, when you are washing the dishes, move on to a visualization overlay. For example, my first visual overlay was being aware of scrubbing and using the clockwise scrub motion for positioning my biceps forward and using the counterclockwise scrub for lengthening the Magnus connection on the same side.
Identify an everyday task you engage in, visualize the movements you use to accomplish this task, and level up your performance! Trust the body to perform and visualize the next level!
