>    *Strategies for Success*
>  from Lew Smallwood
>          *Dear Ashok,*

>     I would like to share with you a true story. One that is as amazing as
> it is moving. It illustrates the incredible power we have to envisage the
> events we wish to see manifest in our life, and how we can shape our future.
> The ability of our mind to visualise our future and then create it is truly
> awesome.

> Major James Nesmeth loved to play golf and for many years nurtured a dream
> to improve his game. Then at a particular and dramatic point in his life he
> developed a unique method for achieving his goal. Until he discovered this
> method he was just an average weekend golfer who usually scored in the mid
> to low nineties. But then, in tragic circumstances he was forced to stop
> playing and didn't touch a golf club or step onto a golf course for seven
> years. Yet, amazingly when he played his first game after those seven years
> he shot seventy four. How did he improve so dramatically and drop twenty
> strokes?

> It was during that seven year absence from golf that Major Nesmeth devised
> the successful technique that so dramatically improved his game. A technique
> so unique and yet so simple that we can all learn it. So what was his
> secret? It was the process of mental imagery called visualisation. Major
> Nesmith was for seven years incarcerated in a prisoner-of-war camp. During
> those torturous years he was imprisoned in a cage that could have crushed
> the spirit of a lesser man. It was too small for him to stand erect and when
> he stretched his arms he could touch both sides of the cage.

> During those long and lonely years he spoke to no one in his own language
> and he had no opportunity to participate in any physical activity or to
> exercise in any way. During the first few months, when his spirits were at
> their lowest ebb, he did virtually nothing but hope and pray for his
> release. He then realised that he must find a way to keep his mind focused
> and functioning or he would certainly lose his sanity and probably his life.
> He would surely die within a short period of time; and that's when he began
> to visualise.

> In his mind he selected his favourite golf course and played the entire
> eighteen holes in his imagination. He experienced the game in absolute fine
> detail. He walked the course dressed in the clothes he wore when he played.
> He smelled the air and the fragrance of the trees and the fresh cut grass.
> He imagined the various weather conditions in which he played. The crisp air
> of an early autumn day. The overcast sky and cold bracing weather of winter.
> The fresh breeze of a spring morning. The dry burning heat of summer. He saw
> and heard the birds sing. In his imagination he saw the tee off area, the
> fairways, the greens the bunkers and the rough in such detail that the golf
> course was totally real to him.

> He imagined pulling on his glove and taking his driver out of the bag and
> he rehearsed how he would swing and strike the ball and follow through. He
> felt the grip and balance as he addressed the ball and teed off. He heard
> the ball come sweetly of the tee and watched it arc down the exact centre of
> the fairway, bounce twice, roll and come to rest on the exact spot he had
> selected. Because he was in no hurry he experienced every step as he
> mentally walked to the ball just the same way as if he were doing it
> physically. That way it took the same amount of time to play the game in his
> mind as it took to play it physically in the real world. He played in his
> imagination with the same detail as he would if he were to experience it in
> life. He didn't ever miss a shot, or hook or slice a ball.
> And he did this for four hours a day, seven days a week, every week for
> seven years. In total he played two thousand five hundred and fifty five
> perfect games of golf in his mind. And when he played his first real game
> after being released he shot seventy four.
>    *To Your Success,*

> Lew Smallwood

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