Thoughts to Build On

Actually you are impressing mental pictures of
your executing the movement perfectly-into your sub-
conscious mind. It is vital that you know that your sub-
conscious mind cannot understand instructions from your
conscious mind except in the form of mental pictures.
If your subconscious is shown the word "lift", it will receive
only the individual letters "L-I -F -T" which will mean
nothing to it except how to spell the word. But if your
conscious mind frequently impresses into your subconscious
mind the mental picture of your imparting a. "lift" to your
bowling ball by squeezing your fingers at the instant of
release, your subconscious mind will make that '1ift" a
part of your actual bowling delivery and you will get
many more consecutive strikes because of the extra "spin"
imparted to your ball.
It is a proven psychological principle that
whatever mental pictures you impress into your subcon-
scious mind, those exact mental pictures will be material-
ized into reality. So be sure your mental pictures are per-
fect.
That is the advantage of practicing in your
imagination. You can practice perfection. But when you
actually practice by physically pedorming all the intricate
actions, you cannot concentrate on each rapid, individual
movement to perfection and so you actually are practicing
how to do it wrong instead of right.
Practice does not "make perfect," as the old
saying used to tell us. Only practice of perfection makes
pedect. And until you become a real expert, you can only
practice perfection in your imagination.