Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychological studies have proven the mind's power to recreate vividly the five senses in the meditative state, explains men's tennis and squash coach David R. Fish '72, who has used the techniques individually on his players since 1977 and is in the process of expanding both teams' mental training programs. He adds, "The visualization is vivid down to the mouth's cotton taste, or sweaty palms...
Bernal has been advocating the use of psychological training since he developed the technique on himself 17 years ago, and claims that mental concentration makes up 60 to 70 percent of day to day training, and 90 percent of competition performance...
...When you step up on that starting block everyone's equal...it's a mental game in the water to see how tough you are, how mentally prepared you are to accept those challenges...The race doesn't go to the strongest team, the fastest team, but the one that's most intelligent," Bernal says...
With this goal in mind, Bernal has his swimmers spending four-five hours a week on mental training. Two and one half hours of this time are spent as a group each week in practice. Beyond that swimmers are expected to devote time on-their own, listening to a series of cassettes prepared for individual relaxation training...
...Testifying in the current libel trial of General William Westmoreland vs. CBS, McNamara said he based his testimony to Congress on the unstated hope that Henry Kissinger (then a private citizen) might be able to work out a diplomatic peace. That is what is known to theologians as a mental reservation, and to children as crossing your fingers behind you when you say something you don't really believe...