Incredible hey, you can actually think yourself stronger.

Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio found that subjects who visualised doing biceps curls, five times a week, for two weeks, increased their strength by 13.5%

Incredible hey, you can actually think yourself stronger.

New neural pathways are created by imagination just as they are through new action.

So what’s going on there?

Well, as much as it may feel like it, our eyes don’t actually see, ears don’t heart, mouth doesn’t taste, nose doesn’t smell and our skins

doesn’t feel.

They pull in a mess of data and some how that spongy lump in our heads that has never seen the light of day interprets that data.

This data is a mental simulation of the world

based on our interpretation of our experiences.

The brain imagines

The imagination informs the nervous system.

The nervous system causes physical adaptations to prepare for the world.

However…

there isn’t one world, there are 7.5 billion of them and the world we inhabits is a product of our imagination.

Master your imagining and you can transform your world.

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