Thought is a powerful force. Positive thinking creates a positive reality, helping the brain harness its immense power for its good. But to use this power, you first need to believe in this power.
According to scientists, to be successful you need to believe in your ability to succeed. If you believe you can, you can. Because if you win on the mental battlefield, you will win the real battlefield, that is, the battle of life. And if you are defeated in the battlefield of the mind, you will lose in the battle of life. No matter how much money you have in your savings, it will all blow away if your mindset is not right.
The source of victory-defeat, success-failure, peace-chaos, and stability-instability is the mind. He who has been able to bring control over the thought, to take the thought into his own hands instead of leaving it in the hands of the thought, is the one who has succeeded.
Why is thinking so important?
The idea of our brain’s performance that modern neuroscience has given us is like eating heterogeneity. By comparison, each of the million neurons in the brain can be called a supercomputer. But as the computer cannot do anything by itself, it has to be programmed or commanded; The same is the case with the brain. And the brain’s program, i.e. the instructions of what the brain needs to do, comes from the thoughts of the subconscious mind. So how do you do it if you can’t think of what you can do?
Suppose you have a lot of data or information on your computer. But this data is invalid until it is processed.
God has put all the knowledge inside this little brain of ours. If we call this knowledge data then its processing system is thought. Whatever you think you can do, your brain will make it possible.
Visualize yourself succeeding:
Research has shown that the brain cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. The mental guidance it provides during work provides the same guidance during thinking or imagining. That is why when there is a conflict between knowledge and imagination, imagination wins.
A simple example of this is 3-D cinema. An explosion sends rock pelting towards you – you know what the scene on the silver screen is all about. But immediately your hands automatically came before your eyes to escape from that imaginary rock, didn’t they? Because Brain thought the rock was real; And so, as a ‘fight response’, the hand was instructed to take the initiative of self-defense.
Imagery affects many brain processes, including attention, perception, planning, and memory. That’s why thinking can be called real performance training! which increases motivation, confidence, and self-belief; Prepares the brain for success.
In an article on the famous online portal Psychology Today, where you want to go in life or what you want to be, mental practice and imagination can bring you closer to that goal. Your thoughts can set you up for success.
There is an excellent case in favor of this statement. An Israeli computer expert named Natan Sharansky spent 9 years in solitary confinement in a prison in the undivided Russian Federation on charges of spying for the United States. During that time, he practiced thinking extensively. He played chess in his mind and said ‘I will take the chance to become world champion!’
The amazing fact is that Sharansky beat the then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1996! Although he was not a professional chess player.
Perhaps in the 1970s, the Soviets were the first to use visualization techniques in sports as mental rehearsals. The technique has since gained widespread popularity.