How To Build Muscle Mass Using The Power Of Your Mind
August 13th, 2009 | 
Author: Normally bodybuilding articles talk about how to build muscle up, diet, training workouts, muscle building nutrition and so on, however whilst these are all really important there is one things slightly different I would like to introduce to you and your muscle building armoury. It is known as the reticular activating system (RAV).
The RAV works alongside the visual parts of our brain and directs our attention to certain things that our sub conscious has programmed into it, to be important to achieve our goals. The everyday actions, sights, sounds,preferences and so on that we experience daily are all due to our sub conscious thought process that is always running.
Neuroscientists have now proven the vaildity of positive thinking and the law of attraction through various skeptic proof experiments. If you do not know what the law of attraction is it is basically the premise that ‘what you think about, you bring about’ or ‘thoughts become things’. Now in the past this was thought of as being a bit to new agey for the majority of people however there is an increasing acceptance of this mental approach worldwide.
Now it doesn’t really matter if you adopt the neuro-scientists point of view about it or the new age approach to this as it will still work. So by programming our subconscious we are able to activate our RAV which in turn will lead us to take the correct steps towards our goals as we will simply be noticing and identifying these things more. Some people will come across strange co-incidences that will help there progress which is not uncommon and often gives this ‘law of attraction’ an unearthly feel whereas the truth is those things were probably there waiting to be found all along!
So how can a bodybuilder make use of this? Well think about your current thought patterns. Precisely what is it that you are running through your mind on a daily basis. Are they thoughts such as ‘losing weight is impossible for me’ or ‘My muscles won’t grow’ for if they are then that is precisely what your RAV system is selecting for you to notice and take action upon on a day to day basis. It is therefore your sub conscious thought patterns that you need to change to positive muscle building patterns such as: ‘muscle gains come quickly and easily’ or ‘I am getting ripped fast’ and so on.
How can you alter these patterns? Here are a couple of things to try:
1) Visualisation: first you need to set aside 5 minutes or so each day to do this. Simply close your eyes and picture your body in as much detail as you can exactly what you want it too look like. Huge guns, ripped 6 pack and so on, be as clear as possible and hold that vision with belief that you look like that already.’
2) Speak out aloud clearly and confidently simple statements like: I am extremely fit and healthy, I am huge and muscular, I am growing more and more each day and so on.
Go through these everyday. Normally it takes up to 30 days for this new way of thinking to bed in. Following that, keep doing them in order to continually reaffirm your new beliefs and thought programming.
If you doubt that this is effective then I suggest that you take a look at a few sportsmens autobiographies or sports studies books, I gaurantee that you will find these processes talked about in depth, especially visualisation which is an awesomely effective technique that deserves daily usage!
Ok with these positive thoughts and feelings in mind, go build muscle mass!
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