Sentence examples for mental techniques from inspiring English sources

None of their mental techniques can alleviate muscle fatigue.

Parise is working with Garrett Kramer, a sports psychology behavioral coach who advocates dispensing with mental techniques like visualization.

In February, Quiksilver sent him to Australia to train with the surf coach Mick Cain, who used video analysis and mental techniques to improve Stack's contest readiness.

The thought of interfering with nature did not bother him because a number of Buddhist mental techniques have a similar effect.

Using a variety of mental techniques — for instance, imagining that a painful area is being flooded with soothing chemicals — most people can, with a little concentration, make the flame wax or wane.

They are visibly trying to block out the knowledge of her knowledge, no doubt using the mental techniques they were taught at the training school: I am a powerful person.

For example, I once asked tennis superstar Novak Djokovic about it, and he confirmed that the mental technique has game-changing consequences (literally, for him).

Inspired by this tale, a 16th-century Jesuit priest recommended a mental technique by which scholars could build an imaginary palace to keep their memories safe, creating a visual image for everything they wanted to recall and creating a particular place for the image inside the mental palace.

What dawned on me in Accra is that speaking in tongues might actually be a more effective way to pray than speaking in ordinary language — if by prayer one means the mental technique of detaching from the everyday world, and from everyday thought, to experience God.

"It's truly expanding," he says of the mental technique.

But a therapist friend of mine who works with clients suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder taught me a mental technique for facing tragedy: Imagine a screen.