Sunday, January 25, 2009

JUGGLING IMPROVES MIND-BODY LINK

According to Michael Gelb, author of More Balls than Hands: Juggling Your Way to Success by Learning to Love Your Mistakes (Prentice Hall Press), practicing juggling calms your mind as it balances your body. He claims that visualizing success while juggling takes advantage of the special mind-body connection by this particular form of relaxed concentration. While other approaches to success may get tangled up in too much thinking, juggling requires letting go of thinking.

It naturally creates what is called in Zen, "beginner's mind," which is totally present in the moment of "now," where visualizations can make their mark.

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