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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  Sounds as if your method, Ilya, is more suited to physical behaviours, while Michael's applies to any, including mental. |
Heh.
That is the beautiful part of it. I strongly believe that for personal development there is no division into physical and mental.
Of course there are mental and physical activities, no doubt about that. But there are no just physical or just mental changes (improvements, growth, etc).
If the change is purely mental and does not translate into some behavior change that can be observed by another person, than there is no change. There is an illusion of change, but no effective change. Purely mental development is a waste of time.
This is not to argue with Michael. I thing that he and I are describing the same process, but in slightly different terms. And the technique that I've outlined works for purely mental constructs as well. For example beliefs.
These are very prone to illusionary changes. And putting a new belief into muscles is a sure fire check that something has indeed changed.