Mind Over Muscle Mass, Use Your Mental Capacity to Create Muscle Mass
Everyone has heard of the placebo effect, but most people haven't thought about putting their mind over muscle, or using their mind to help build muscle. The truth is most people experience the placebo effect with their supplement usage. The placebo effect is basically when someone is in need of medicine and they are given a substance other than medicine, but told it is medicine. That substance then puts their pain at ease, but how can a sugar pill kill pain?
The explanation is actually quite simple. The patient thought they were getting the real medicine, they had no doubt about it, it never crossed their mind that they were getting the real medicine. So, they thought that their problem would fade away because the medicine was going to take care of it. What worked is not the "medicine" but the person's belief that it would work. Even Jesus Christ told his disciples over 2000 years ago that if they had strong enough faith they could move mountains. One of his disciples, Peter, even walked on water because of his faith.
Mind Over Muscle and The Placebo Effect So how does the placebo effect relate to building muscle? It has a lot more to do with it than you might think, especially when you add supplements. Everything that occurs within the body must start or be allowed to continue in the brain, and you can control your brain with your thoughts. It goes like this:
Our thoughts directly, or indirectly, control our brains, and our brain directly controls your body, your body gains muscle, if the brain lets it.
Just as a person's belief can make them feel better, it can and usually does. Now, just as trainees believe that taking a supplement will result in muscle growth, they are right, it can and usually does. Actually, what really worked wasn't the supplement but your mind. What happened is the person's mind told their brain, "This stuff really does it, I saw it in XYZ magazine. I AM going to gain muscle, thanks to this supplement."
When this happens, your mind is telling your brain what's going to happen, and your brain does all it can to make it happen. Guess what, your brain is in charge of gaining muscle, if it wants too, you will gain muscle.
Take Advantage of It: You don't have to dump a gallon of overpriced powder from a fancy looking, expensive, half full supplement down your throat. All you have to do is believe in your body and mind's ability to create muscle. The placebo effect usually only works when you don't really know what you are getting is fake, but you can use the underlying principals to your advantage.
The underlying principle is that you KNEW it would work. Imagine what you could accomplish if you could KNOW that you could gain muscle whenever you wanted. I'm here to tell you, you can, and it's easy. Here are a few guidelines to follow to maximize your mind's ability to gain muscle.
1. Before your workout: Know that the workout you're about to do will add another layer of ripped, strong, solid muscle. 2. While working out: Know that the lift you are doing IS building huge amounts of muscle. 3. After your workout: You guessed it, feel good, knowing that you just sparked incredible growth in the worked muscles. Also, look forward to your next workout, knowing that it will also build even more muscle.
You need to actually think about what you do to help you gain muscle. You need to realize how every bite of nutritious food is helping you gain muscle. Realize how every hour of sleep is adding more muscle and helping recovery. Basically, every muscle building activity needs to be coupled with positive thoughts about how it will help you gain mass.
Gaining muscle mass is undoubtedly a physical thing, but everything that is a physical thing starts as a mental thing. Your brain takes instructions from you through your thoughts, it does what you tell it to do, through your mind, whether you know it or not. You have to constantly be giving it good instructions and make it known that the things you are doing WILL help you build huge amounts of muscle. Take the credit and placebo effect from supplements and master the mind over muscle. - 17269
The explanation is actually quite simple. The patient thought they were getting the real medicine, they had no doubt about it, it never crossed their mind that they were getting the real medicine. So, they thought that their problem would fade away because the medicine was going to take care of it. What worked is not the "medicine" but the person's belief that it would work. Even Jesus Christ told his disciples over 2000 years ago that if they had strong enough faith they could move mountains. One of his disciples, Peter, even walked on water because of his faith.
Mind Over Muscle and The Placebo Effect So how does the placebo effect relate to building muscle? It has a lot more to do with it than you might think, especially when you add supplements. Everything that occurs within the body must start or be allowed to continue in the brain, and you can control your brain with your thoughts. It goes like this:
Our thoughts directly, or indirectly, control our brains, and our brain directly controls your body, your body gains muscle, if the brain lets it.
Just as a person's belief can make them feel better, it can and usually does. Now, just as trainees believe that taking a supplement will result in muscle growth, they are right, it can and usually does. Actually, what really worked wasn't the supplement but your mind. What happened is the person's mind told their brain, "This stuff really does it, I saw it in XYZ magazine. I AM going to gain muscle, thanks to this supplement."
When this happens, your mind is telling your brain what's going to happen, and your brain does all it can to make it happen. Guess what, your brain is in charge of gaining muscle, if it wants too, you will gain muscle.
Take Advantage of It: You don't have to dump a gallon of overpriced powder from a fancy looking, expensive, half full supplement down your throat. All you have to do is believe in your body and mind's ability to create muscle. The placebo effect usually only works when you don't really know what you are getting is fake, but you can use the underlying principals to your advantage.
The underlying principle is that you KNEW it would work. Imagine what you could accomplish if you could KNOW that you could gain muscle whenever you wanted. I'm here to tell you, you can, and it's easy. Here are a few guidelines to follow to maximize your mind's ability to gain muscle.
1. Before your workout: Know that the workout you're about to do will add another layer of ripped, strong, solid muscle. 2. While working out: Know that the lift you are doing IS building huge amounts of muscle. 3. After your workout: You guessed it, feel good, knowing that you just sparked incredible growth in the worked muscles. Also, look forward to your next workout, knowing that it will also build even more muscle.
You need to actually think about what you do to help you gain muscle. You need to realize how every bite of nutritious food is helping you gain muscle. Realize how every hour of sleep is adding more muscle and helping recovery. Basically, every muscle building activity needs to be coupled with positive thoughts about how it will help you gain mass.
Gaining muscle mass is undoubtedly a physical thing, but everything that is a physical thing starts as a mental thing. Your brain takes instructions from you through your thoughts, it does what you tell it to do, through your mind, whether you know it or not. You have to constantly be giving it good instructions and make it known that the things you are doing WILL help you build huge amounts of muscle. Take the credit and placebo effect from supplements and master the mind over muscle. - 17269
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