y remote, and this was
amplified by suggestions of confidence that he would immediately start
slugging as well as ever. His batting average soared immediately.

Dr. Michio Ikai, professor of physiology at Tokyo University, and Dr.
Arthur H. Steinhaus of the George Williams Laboratory of Physiologic
Research in Physical Education, Chicago, have proved that track men can
far surpass their best previous times under hypnosis. Their tests,
incidentally, proved that there is no danger of an athlete going beyond
his physiologic limit while bettering his former marks. They attribute
the superior performances to the removal of inhibitions, which
psychologically prevent an athlete from doing his best. This report was
made before the International Congress on Health and Fitness in the
Modern World held in Rome during the last Olympic games.

All reports, as a matter of fact, show that athletic performances are
improved by psychological, not physical, means, and that built-in
automatic reflexes protect the athlete against the danger of
overexertion at all levels of awareness--hypnotic or non-hypnotic.

Psychologists are using hypnosis more and more to facilitate
concentration and learning, and it is likely this use of the ancient
science will become even more popular than its medical applications. The
reason one learns so quickly under hypnosis is because of time
distortion which allows you to obtain the equivalent of many hours of
study in a relatively short length of time.

Undoubtedly, you have had experience with time distortion in your daily
life. Remember how slowly time goes when you are not interested in what
you are doing and how fast it speeds by when you are? And the drowning
man, who sees his whole life go by, is an excellent example of this.
Enough people have been saved to know that this actually happens. The
point is that the subconscious mind does not record the passage of time
the same way as the conscious mind.

The conscious mind records time physically, by means of a clock. It is
objective and tells you that a thought or movement requires a certain
number of seconds, minutes, hours or days.

Your subconscious mind has an entirely different concept of time that
has nothing to do with the physical world. It is called subjective
because your own sense of the passage of time is used.

Personal time varies according to the circumstances in which you find
yourself. Haven't you noticed that when you are happy or