MEM AND SPORT/THE ZONE
SPORTS INJURIES
LIVING IN THE ZONE
Living, playing and creating to our maximum potential occurs when we are anchored in the present moment, calmly and confidently operating above our normal level of effectiveness.
All injuries contain two elements: the physical trauma and the emotional trauma. The emotional trauma, which is overlooked by medical science, plays a very important role in the healing process. Once the emotional blockage is located and removed healing is expedited.
THE ZONE
Being in the zone is not only confined to sport. Artists, musicians, inventors, writers, public speakers and even sales people have been reported as saying they have experience this phenomena.
They mentioned it because it was a state they did not normally enjoy, as evidenced by the fact that their prowess was above their normal standard.
Time not only seems to slow down for these people, it actually does slow down for them, and the degree that it does so is governed by the degree to which they are free from their body – in other words, how free they are from the body’s constraints.
FORM
When sportspeople are out of form, all it means really is that they are not operating to their usual level of expertise, and the only thing that can cause that is the triggering of mental and emotional energy blockages.
Timing
In fast-movement sports such as football, tennis and cricket, there is another factor of enormous importance – timing. The reality of the timing factor is often commented upon in cricket with the expression ‘his timing is out’ or, conversely, ‘he is striking the ball with exquisite timing’. In football a common comment is ‘he timed his run to perfection’.
Lacking the necessary time is what ‘being out of form’ is all about. Although a sportsperson may appear to have lost the sparkle and the abilities that separate him from others, that is not really the case; what has really happened is that time has closed in on him.
The Causism mission statement reads: ‘To assist people to be in control of their lives and live their own dreams.’ This is achieved by eliminating negative identities, which leads to this statement: ‘The more negative identities you eliminate, the more the good things just happen.’ Your life is heading in the direction you want it to.
The fewer negative identities that are impinging upon a person, the more their attention is on ‘now’ and the more they are free of the strictures of time – they can even reach a stable position of ‘having all the time in the world’, as remarked upon by the above cricketers.
. Imagine the effect on a team if they were all given the benefit of Mace Method sessions, and imagine the effect on individual sportspeople such as golfers and tennis players.