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Power News Can
Imaginary Exercise Make You Fit? By
Jonathan Fields Breakthrough research in the field of exercise physiology has yielded stunning revelations about the way we get fit. The big surprise, though, is not what we “have” to do, but what we might “not” have to do. Our thoughts can literally redefine the size, shape and strength of our bodies. For decades, exercise scientists have worked to discover how we get fit. Getting stronger, we were told, was about creating enough resistance in a muscle to create millions of micro-tears that would, over days, weeks and months, rebuild themselves, bigger, leaner and stronger. So when we lift weights, sprint or engage in pretty much any kind of exercise, we set this whole process in motion. The entire cycle is known as hypertrophy and it’s always been considered a pretty mechanical experience. Weight loss has been tossed off with similar assumptions. Regardless of he method used for short-term weight loss, sustained loss always comes back to calories in and calories out. Nothing foofy, just hard work. Thus, the famed old coach’s chant, “no pain, no gain!” But, what if we could make a change to that slogan? No pain…huge gains. It seems there may be a giant kink in this system. And, it has to do with the brain’s role in whole process. Mind Over Muscles Building muscle, it turns out, is not nearly as mechanical as we thought. And, in fact, a recent study by Erin M. Shackell and Lionel G. Standing at Bishop’s University reveals you may be able to make nearly identical gains in strength and fitness without lifting a finger! That study measured the strength gains in three different groups of people. The first group did nothing outside their usual routine. The second group was put through two weeks of highly focused strength training for one specific muscle, three times a week. The third group listened to audio CDs that guided them to imagine themselves going through the same workout as the exercising group, three times a week. And, the results blew everyone away. The control group, who didn’t do anything, saw no gains in strength. The exercise group, who trained three times a week, saw a 28% gain in strength. No big surprises there. But, the group who did not exercise, but rather thought about exercising experienced nearly the same gains in strength as the exercise group (24%). Yes, you read that right! The group that visualized exercised got nearly the same benefit, in terms of strength-gains, as the group that actually worked-out. All of which leaves us with two big questions:
Mind
Power or Miracle? Medical Mysteries Confound Science In 1995, debris from a burning church collapsed on Buffalo, N.Y., firefighter Donny Herbert, depriving him of oxygen for six minutes and consciousness for 10 years. But in what has been described as a medical miracle, Herbert became fully lucid a decade after that tragedy, defying a dim prognosis and allowing him enough time to express love for his wife and four sons. He died just as unexpectedly in May 2005, a month after re-awakening. Herbert’s experience evokes the question: Can the human mind provide the power to will a man from a near-comatose state? Some experts believe the mind is not only powerful, but it also isn’t even “local” to the body. Larry Dossey, a physician and the former editor of a journal on alternative medicine, has lectured worldwide on the power of the mind. On his Web site, he goes even further, noting that Western medicine doesn’t prepare physicians for “miracles,” even though most doctors have witnessed the inexplicable. “Almost all physicians possess a lavish list of strange happenings unexplainable by normal science,” he said. The medical literature is replete with reports of tumors that have vanished or patients who say they’ve floated away from their bodies. Can
the 'Will to Live' Hold Off
Death? By
Stuart Jeffries One of Hugh Montgomery's first patients, when he started working as an intensive-care doctor in 1989, was a 94-year-old woman who had suffered a heart attack while ballroom dancing. "She was a terrific, feisty old dear and we got on really well," recalls Montgomery. "But she ended up getting complications and falling unconscious. It was just a matter of time before she died. "Every
morning when I came into work,
I would ask the nurses if she'd
died, and they would say no.
Then the thought crossed my
mind that maybe she was hanging
on for me. Montgomery relates the story because he is convinced that there is such a thing as the will to live and, by extension, a will to die. "I've seen this kind of thing happen so much in my work over the years that I don't believe it is a coincidence." You Get What You Expect By
Dr. Robert Anthony Dr.
Robert Anthony is the author of 15 books
including the million copy best sellers
"The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self
Confidence" and "Advanced Formula
for Total Success". His latest creation
is the comprehensive 6-CD training program
The
Secret of Deliberate Creation
HERE
IS THE SECRET: You will experience in
your life what you cause yourself, or others,
to experience. Not only that, but whatever
you cause yourself or others to experience
will come back to you multiplied and increased. How
is this done? Learn more at The
Secret of Deliberate Creation Can
Your Thoughts
Affect Your Weight?
By Alix Spiegel Source: National Public Radio The holidays are finally over and your waistline is as overstretched as your credit card. It's time to take action! What should you do? A) Hit the gym. B) Make a solemn pledge to never ingest another sweet for as long as you live. C) Hit the gym and make a solemn pledge to never ingest another sweet for as long as you live, or… D) Sit around on the couch eating chocolate bonbons while genuinely believing that you are getting a lot of rigorous exercise. The answer to this multiple-choice quiz might not be as straightforward as you think. In fact, a recent study by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer seems to challenge our basic assumptions about the relationship between the physical body and the mind — and perhaps even our assumptions about the nature of objective reality itself. It certainly challenges our assumptions about the limits of the placebo effect. Langer is a researcher who has published several important and provocative studies. In this study, she decided to look at whether our perception of how much exercise we are getting has any effect on how our bodies actually look. To do this, she studied hotel maids. As any casual observer of the hospitality industry knows, hotel maids spend the majority of their days lugging heavy equipment around endless hallways. Basically, almost every moment of their working lives is spent engaged in some kind of physical activity. But Langer found that most of these women don't see themselves as physically active. She did a survey and found that 67 percent reported they didn't exercise. More than one-third of those reported they didn't get any exercise at all. "Given that they are exercising all day long," Langer says, "that seemed to be bizarre." The Nutrition Secret Behind "The Secret" By
Mike Adams With the popularity of "The Secret" rapidly growing in the United States and around the world, there's growing interest in finding ways to maximize results while using the power of intention and Law of Attraction. Few people really know one of the most important secrets to making "The Secret" work: Establishing the right nutrition and dietary habits that clear your nervous system and allow intention to flow. In this article, I'll share some of the best nutritional secrets about The Secret, covering:
Once you learn this information, you'll instantly discover ways to greatly enhance the effects you get when you apply your intention (or invoke the Law of Attraction). You'll also come to recognize why the great spiritual leaders throughout the world all gravitate towards similar diets that are free of certain substances (such as red meat). Let's begin by examining those foods and substances that interfere with the power of intention and the Law of Attraction. What Happens After You Make a Wish? By
Jorj
Elprehzleinn Personally, I don't recommend wishing or dreaming. You see, when you wish in the physical universe you go out of the present moment, and your mind observes this. Your mind sees that you are dreaming about some future event or situation, and it puts you on automatic. When you place a wish into the universe there is invariably and immediately a form of resistance that comes against it. This resistance is called the physical universe. Some people call it real life. In Life Transformation System Z, I recommend a technique that allows you to have your dreams and wishes come true, in minutes, in your own universe. That is part of the trick to it. A real life magic trick. And if you know how to perform this magic, there is no resistance, and your wish has a much better chance of coming true. In fact the Life Transformation Formula is so effective helping other people that one of the problems I noticed is people having trouble tracking all the results they are getting. In fact one guy who imagined a red Ferrari in his own universe, had one show up parked right outside of the new apartment he was moving into. He was so surprised and excited to see his dream taking form in the physical universe, that he forget to have his girlfriend take a picture of him standing next to it! One of these days, if it is still what he desires, I know he is going to be driving and even owning that car, if that is what he wants. I thought I better write this article explaining how it is that a wish CAN come true, and to warn you about why they often don't. More
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