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Elite athletes talk a lot about being in the zone, that magical place where mind and body work in perfect synch and movements seem to flow without conscious effort. Major-league pitchers, NBA stars, pro golfers and Olympic hopefuls dedicate their careers to the search for this elusive feeling, devoting hours of training to "listening" to their body and "reading" their muscles?trying to construct a bridge between mind and body sturdy enough to lead them straight to athletic nirvana...
...hockey players, finds that biofeedback techniques are particularly effective for controlling jitters. Most athletes are skilled at visual imagery, and when shown monitors that display their anxiety levels as a graph or chart, they quickly learn to corral their nervousness and keep it from interfering with the smooth flow of their practiced skills. "I tell people they need to try to get back to doing rather than thinking," says Simons...
...mental chatter long enough for their bodies to perform. "You have to help them realize that 'I have to get out of my own way,'" says Simons. "Relaxing can help them imagine competing, getting in their own groove, feeling it, tasting it, reminding them of that feeling of flow...
...actor doesn't need to think up a picture. He can just take it over, make its personality his. Hustle & Flow might sputter without the seductive screen intelligence of Terrence Howard. An actor can anchor a movie, as Maria Bello does in A History of Violence, or steal it, like Gong Li in Memoirs of a Geisha...
...Americans who pop pills and snap up supplements touted as brain enhancers. The latter are often a waste of money. Studies examining the cognitive benefits of supplements have either proved inconclusive or shown only modest effects. There's some evidence that the popular herb ginkgo biloba boosts cerebral blood flow and improves mental functioning, particularly when taken with ginseng. But there's also evidence that it doesn...