These mental images help your body develop the circuitry, the nerve to muscle connections to lead to successful outcomes.īusiness and goal setting is similar. The phrase mind over matter first appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell (17971875) and was. Visualizing the ball hitting the bat/club or at the bottom of the net. Envision the perfect stroke, the right pace, mentally attacking the hill before they get there. Throughout, he maintained a positive mental attitude.Īthletes are taught to visualize success. I remember reading a story about a gentleman who had brain cancer and he visualized a mental rabbit running around eating carrots of cancer out of his brain. Yet often you find stories of people having a significantly positive mindset even when faced with life-threatening diseases. Overall positive mindsets are the ones that come to mind (punny). Allowing you to manage a situation that is the most important thing, instead of being paralyzed in pain. It will allow you to focus on the problem at hand. In my case, the ability to trick the mind that the pain was only temporary, but being mindful, you can present a different mindset, and block out the discomfort. Yet, in a simple search of mindfulness and meditation, you can find wild stories of spectacular examples of mind over matter. Physical or mental.Ĭertainly, there are limitations in my experience. I believe through the effort (read as training), is what allows me to ignore the discomfort and handle being in a position that is less desirable today. This well-worn phrase is a eulogy to the power of thought over material substance and first made its appearance in English during the mid-18th century. (ifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatterifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatterifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatterifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatterifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatterifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatterifyoudon’tminditdon’tmatter) I was saying it over and over like a mantra while in a particular position that at the time was excruciatingly painful. The reason I remember that phrase so indelibly is that it is inscribed on my mind and was enhanced with pain. The way to trick your mind back is either to ignore it entirely (run away! - no) or to change the perspective and make it work to your advantage through mindfulness and positive thinking. Mind over matter certainly allows your mind to play tricks on you. Now I am thinking about the phrase almost 30 years later. It has been burned into my brain, into my psyche.
It is amazing how ingrained that phrase has become. That was a phrase often repeated to me while I was in the United States Marine Corps and certainly during the boot camp phase.
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