Performance

The "Zone," in sports, refers to a state of focused concentration and imagination in which the athlete is able to "see" the desired result in their mind's eye even before it happens.  Some state that it feels as if  things are moving in "slow motion."  There is almost no activity, from sports performance to test performance, and even to sales performance, that is not improved with increased self-esteem, increased concentration, and increased focus.  The unconscious mind is unable to distinguish between things vividly imagined and things really happening [which explains the child's reaction to the imagined monster under the bed].  Being able to control the inner mind's images via self-hypnosis can not only make success more easy, it can actually improve healing.  This is one reason that The Journal of Clinical Oncology reported recently that cancer patients were able to more accurately  predict their survival time than their oncologists could.  What they expected to happen tended to happen.  The good news is that, through self-hypnosis, one can change what the inner mind expects!