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It pays to combine the mental and physical.
By joining physical action with mental

focus, you can cut your actual practice
hours in half. That conclusion applies to

performance, as well as to practice.

You can use upbeat focus to enable better

food choices too.

We know that food influences mood, but
the opposite is also true. In fact, a study
has shown that individuals making food

choices while embracing attributes such
as optimism and gratitude make healthier

food choices. That’s how the placebo effect
works. By believing a positive outcome will
occur, you’re far more likely to experience

that result—even if you don’t believe in the
placebo effect. The nocebo effect has also interesting study that I read years ago

been proven. If you think something will found that by simply telling hotel maids
have a negative impact, it most likely will. that their everyday work was “exercise,”
their bodies responded dramatically—

What ways would I suggest you start with decreased blood pressure, body fat,
steering your subtle energies this winter and body mass, within just one week.

so you can best spring into spring—and 2. Hold spiritual qualities in your heart.
the summer? Here are a few ideas. That’s right. Self-love will automate your
choices. Get in shape with mantras like

1. Tell yourself that your everyday hope, love, and gratitude. There is truly
movements are exercise. Yup, when a subtle science to this idea. Every time

you’re lifting a fork, imagine that it is pressure is produced in the body, such
as heavy as a forklift! One particularly as when your heart beats, phonons are
produced. These are tiny quantum energies

that arise from atoms oscillating or moving
2 Cyndi Dale, Energy Work for the Everyday to Elite
Athlete (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications), 2023. in a crystal. If you are focused on positive
3 Ibid, 16. qualities, the resulting phonons will bring
4 Michael Miller, “Envisioning Your Way to positive messages throughout your body
Success,” January 15, 2018, sixseconds, 6seconds.
org/2018/01/15/envisioning-way-success-incredible- and greatly improve your health.
power-mental-practice/. 3. Visualize. That’s right. Three times a
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