A New Way to Combine Exercise and the Law of Attraction

The subject of using visualization to improve sports performance has been well documented in peer reviewed scientific literature. Most people interested in The Law of Attraction and learning to manifest life at will usually just see this as a welcome scientific confirmation of their efforts. We all have good, or improved health as one of our goals and so already use The Law of Attraction to help manifest this.

There's a better way to manifest health!

What you might not know is that there is another, more beneficial way to use visualization and The Law of Attraction to improve health, aid weight loss and improve muscle tone, that very few people actually practice. Even now, in both the scientific and Manifestation communities, this practice is hugely misunderstood.

Scientific evidence that techniques of manifestation can heal the body

Before I give you the new technique, I want to just cover an overview of some of the scientific literature. One study most people reading this will be interested in illustrates that visualization alone, instead of exercising, is not only effective in improving strength and muscle tone, but because of the way the experiment was set up, it might suggest that visualization can hugely slow the effects of aging.

In the study, volunteers had their healthly arm put into a cast and a control group were instructed to just imagine exercising the arm for just ten minutes, twice a day for a month. Compared to the other group who were told to do nothing, the results were dramatic. Not only were the visualizers stronger physically, but so was their brain, in that there were were more neuromuscular pathways in the cortex which controls and coordinates muscle movement (Phulkar and Gwalior, 2017).

How science rediscovered Manifestation techniques and their ability to improve the physical body

In sports visualization, whether to improve performance or heal an injury, visualization is used in three ways.

1 — Visual
The athlete sees themselves uses all imagined senses in the body, going through all the physical movements of a sport. Interestingly, it was found that being relaxed while visualizing helped athletes recall the physical movements (Basset at al, 2011). Also, athletes who had trouble visualizing were helped by watching videos of performances to augment their thinking process. (Williams and Scherza, 2010). I think this is really interesting as it makes me think of the law of attraction methods, such as using images on a vision board to aid visualization.

2 – Emotive
Visualizing being completely healed (when injured in the present) and able to do what the injury is now preventing (which the new age rather than scientific types would call either 'as if' thinking or 'living in the end' to use a Neville Goddard phrase).

3 – Healing
Here, athletes with an injured body part look at pictures of an uninjured body part (again, like a vision board, using images to aid visualization).

So the proven way for visualization to work in sport (to improve performance of a healthy person) is to lie, relaxed, and visualize in an associated way, in that you imagine you are in your body going through the motions of your sport perfectly, as an imagined rehearsal.

For healing injuries, either imaging yourself as healed and doing some action which implies being healed (such as imagining dancing if your leg is broken) and feeling the associated emotion. Or visualizing the injured body part directly and imagining it healed. So say your knee is inflamed, swollen and red you lay down and imagine it, in your mind, as being healed.

A new technique of manifestation to help create the desired body

So my technique is different and it links to doing exercise. It's not about lying down and imaging exercise, but actually doing the visualization in real time, while you are exercising.

Say you do a workout twice a week and the routine usually involves doing some physical action again and again. While doing this, most people put on a podcast or some music or whatever. But what you can actually do is to use this time to strengthen your 'ghost' body, or 'mental' body if you're more comfortable with that term (technically it is the 'etheric body').

Did you know you have a ghost body? Well, look at your hand now. Touch each of your fingers to your thumb one by one. You can see your hand physically, but you also have the inner-sensations of the movement and the touch of your fingertips. So in a way, there are two hands, the seen and the sensed.

Now close your eyes and do the same thing with your hand, touch each finger to your thumb. Now you are still seeing your hand but mentally, a 'ghost' hand. You can feel the sensations and it kind of exists, but in a different way.

There are sensations and you are linking them to an imagined hand which you cannot see physically. Now I don't want to digress here as it's the subject for a whole different article, but this 'imagined' body is actually real. It's exists on a mental level, consists of energy and generally permeates the space of your physical body (unless dreaming or astrally projecting).

So, the practice is, to do your 'reps' of whatever exercise you are doing, eyes closed, seeing the body you want to manifest, however that is different from (better than) the one you are physically in, slimmer or bigger or unblemished or more toned.

If you have trouble imaging this then take the advice from the study and have pictures of the body you want as an aid to visualization (aka use a vision board), but as you do each rep with your eyes closed, imagine the mental body that is permeating the space of the physical body and feeling it's sensations, then see the body as the one you want to have.

While you are doing this, with each rep, make sure you are feeling positive emotions, gratitude for how the body is now as you wanted it to be. Be excited. [Note: this technique works best with non-standing exercises which don't use balance and involve repetition]

When the exercise is finished, stop, open your eyes and look at your physical body. Hold the mental picture of your inner body as the same time, in the same space as your physical body, so you are aware of both simultaneously. Don't allow yourself to be sad at the idea that the physical body isn't the same as the mental, 'imagined' one that you want.

Orientate your feelings from the inner-body. You already have what you want RIGHT NOW and it doesn't matter what your eyes can see. This is the crux of this exercise, and The Law of Attraction/manifestation generally, to disregard what your senses see and orientate your feelings, joy and gratitude from your inner-world.

If you want to take this to an advanced/power level, one last tip. While you are exercising with your eyes closed, you don't have to stick to visualizing the body you want, you can also change your environment. If you are working out aware of the cracked, stained walls of a cheap apartment in a part of town you hate, it's not real. Your eyes are closed.

What the hell are you doing? You are recreating an environment that you hate. Forget where your physical body is, change it to where you want to be, a luxury apartment or holiday hotel – or wherever you would like to work out. Imagine a mirror where you can see your desired body working out to reinforce the exercise.

When you finish, open your eyes, and don't feel bad. Again, disregard what your eyes can see and still be where you dream to be... for this way, everyday, your dreams aren't coming true... they are in this moment.

References

Bassett, S., Hall, C., Foley, L., Maddison, R., Prapavessis, H. & Wesch, N. (2001). Self-efficiacy, imagery use, and adherence during injury rehabilitation. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 22, 695-703. Retrieved 2023, from http://www.ebscohost.com.

Phulkar, A. (Dr.) and Gwalior, L. (2017) International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health, Sports and Health 2017; 4(4): 330-333, India.

Scherzer, C. & Williams, J. (2010). Injury risk and rehabilitation: Psychological considerations. Applied Sport Psychology: Personal Growth to Peak Performance, 6th Edition 2010,McGraw-Hill.