11 Good Reasons We Fail to Master Mental Focus

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Here are eleven out of twenty-five reasons I’ve come up with that we fail to master optimal mental focus. They are not in order of importance. We would enjoy far more frequent successes in our lives if we spent just as much time on mental mastery as we do on physical mastery. There is unbelievable synergy created when they are worked on together in unison. Unfortunately, many never enjoy the vast rewards of this snynergy because of these reasons…

11 Good Reasons We Fail to Master Mental Focus…..

1) We spend hours training our bodies and usually schedule no more than a few minutes with mental focus techniques – if even that. We brush our teeth regularly without trying to come up with excuses not too. And yet, we often do it without any self-negotiating for a lot longer than we spend in trying to master seeing our successes in our minds with complete clarity and conviction.

2) We know mental focus is necessary for peak performance but still spend little time trying to learn and incorporate new ideas into our training that may work better for us. Just like anything else, what may seem like small adjustments actually translate into huge returns if you’re willing to experiment and be vigilant to those small degrees that either improve or degrade your performance. Think of how a golf club amplifies a bad stroke – mastering small adjustments is a never-ending quest for the master to know how to activate the best stroke for the situation. Likewise, you want to spend time tweaking and mastering “small details” consistently as well.

3) We spend a lot of time talking about mental focus training and reading books about it, but too little time in actually applying what we know or have learned. Knowledge is not mastery in itself – applying knowledge to action regularly puts us on the road to mastery faster than anything else. There are enough armchair critics who have little comphrension of how to engage peak performance on the battlefield – fooling themselves into thinking that talking a good game is on the same playing field as one who is engaging it for real with real live action instead of words.

4) We think that mental focus will come automatically once we master our chosen physical activity. The reverse is most often the solution. Unfortunately, we spend countless hours practicing actions with half-assed intentions thinking that mastery of the physical with give us automatic mastery over the mental and end up never realizing the synergy that’s created when you work on the mastery of both of them at the same time.

5) We often waste time stubbornly trying to adopt another’s mental focus techniques instead of modifying things to better fit us or taking the initiative to discover our own methods that’ll work best for us. It’s great to go shopping for designer clothing. But if the look doesn’t fit, either go to a tailor or adjust it yourself to fit perfectly. Some styles you love may fit and look much better on a completely different body type than your own. Let them wear it and find what works best for you.

6) Even though we know this, for lack of imagination, stubbornness, or courage to find our own way, we keep trying to make our current visualizations translate well into physical actions regardless of their poor performance record. Eventually because of unpredictable outcomes and continual failures, many begin regarding visualization training as trivial and give it little emphasis or time.

7) We don’t exactly know how to translate mental focus techniques into physical action – so we end up thinking too much in our heads or spending too much time in our bodies instead of seeing everything all at once like an eagles eyesight – seeing the entire valley while also soaring down honing in on the bristling hairs behind a fleeing rabbit’s ears. When you can see, hear, and feel detail and everything perspective all at once, you’re in a zone that’ll generate peak performance consistently.

8 ) We surmise that mental focus is a stationary destination and that we must remain in its zone no matter what – instead of realizing our mental focus should be a fluid lens that can quickly adapt to inevitable fluctuating circumstances. Mastering mental focus means being able to adapt to a huge palette of energies and movement that we may encounter.

9) When the stakes are high, we often focus on calming the mind down and the slower thought processes bleed out to the muscles and nervous system often resulting in sluggish body mechanics – which in turn leads to more stress because it often prompts more disatrous results because of a disconnect of mind and body moving together as one.

10) We fail to master mental focus because we spend the majority of our time mentally rehearsing optimal performances we desire in third person instead of seeing and feeling them in first person. By not really believing deep down that the masterful mental movies we’re seeing are really being performed by us, that displacement of real belief inevitably puts your brain at a disadvantage because in real live action scenarios it’s always judging your performance with that perfect one you see in your optimal mental pictures. When your brain hasn’t been conditioned to fully believe you possess the same masterful actions you see in your imagination, then your brain continually lags behind your actions instead of leading it. That’s why there’ll always be conflict between intentions and actions unless we change our thoughts and feelings to be congruent.

Your brain doesn’t know the difference between an imagined event or a real one. You’re much more likely to stay in the mental focus and peak performance zone when you’ve trained your brain to be in the actual skin of that successful athlete or performer you see in your mind at all times – feeling and reacting to every exhilarating action.

11) We don’t visualize our successful outcomes infused with the highest intensity of empowering emotions and then wonder why we can’t get optimal focus when we’re in the thick of the game or performance. Without every fiber of our being engaged in rehearsal at all times, how can we expect unwavering mental focus? In performance when our actions are being scrutinized by all, emotions suddenly flair up in force. The added surges of emotional electrical firestorms that could have been harnassed for supreme mental focus and optimal power end up throwing us off our game. Knowing all shades of what emotions and thoughts empower you help foil the ones you known definitely don’t aid you. That’s one of the reasons why rehearsing with full-on genuine emotions can empower maximum mental focus.

Many times we get rattled too easily by the emotional brainstorms that occur naturally when andrenaline is present and pumping through our veins hard and fast. Adrenaline can help give us super strength, speed, and keen mental focus. But we must learn to harness it and be able to call it up when we need it. How is adrenaline activated? Usually directly by high emotional engagement. We need neglect to train our mental focus to go with the flow under extreme pressures. Enough said?

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