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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  Megan: I'd be interested to read that study about mental weight lifting. Do you remember where you came across it? And suppose it were valid, and that thinking can build muscle, or make other changes to the body. |
This isn't just one study. They've done tonnes of studies with this. I remember reading one where they broke up basketball players into a couple of groups. First they established a base point for free throw percentages. Then, for a period of time they had one group practice for a certain period of time by shooting the ball. Another group spent half of the same time visualizing shooting and half the time shooting. I don't remember the exact stat, but the group that did the visualizing+shooting something like a 80% better improvement rate compared to those who were just shooting, even though both groups had the exact same amount of time to "practice".
You can also listen to how Tony Robbins turned around Andre Aggasi. It was all about getting him to be in State and helping him control his thoughts. He didn't do any "tennis lessons" with him, considering Tony knows nothing about tennis compared to Andre. Yet he was able to affect his thinking and he won Wimbleton afterwords.
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That doesn't support the argument that thinking can directly influence objects disconnected from the body.
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Quantum particles. The observers intention influences whether an electron becomes a particle or a wave. Can't remember the name of this experiment but I'm sure someone on here does.
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This thread of the discussion highlights the issue of scope; Some believe all thought can influence all matter, while others believe that thought does have some influence, but only through physical mechanisms, which could be psychological/neurobiological mechanisms which only seem to directly link thought to results.
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Yup, you nailed it. I used to think that thoughts only affect matter through direct physical mechanisms, however I no longer think so.