The Wall Street Journal discovers the secret of peak performance—the Gold Medal Mental Workout

Below is an excerpt from the article in the Wall Street Journal:

“... With many an athlete, a few Eastern sports psychologists have moved West. One is Artur Poczwardowski, 36, a Polish judo master...

“`We can condition an athlete to respond with a specific mental state to a specific signal,' says Prof. Poczwardowski. `Self-hypnosis makes a person much more susceptible to this type of learning.'

“The Soviets were toying with such ideas going back to Ivan Pavlov, who induced dogs to drool without the benefit of dog food. When Swedish psychologist Lars-Eric Unestahl mingled sports and hypnosis in the '80s, the [Eastern] bloc lapped it up. Only in the '90s, though, did its methods of entrancement appear in the West. Credit goes to Stadion... Stadion has brought out an English translation of the Polish athlete's favorite hypnotic handbook: Gold Medal Mental Workout.

“Its author, Dariusz Nowicki, is the psychologist who coordinates mind games for all of Poland's Olympians ...

“His program fills 10 weeks with readings and audio recordings that sink the subject into an `alternative state of consciousness,' implant `triggers' that activate the trance in seconds, and then soothingly build a cool disposition for the heat of competition.”

—Barry Newman, “The Key to Ski Jumping? Never Think about It: Mr. Malysz Was in a Funk Till He Tried Hypnosis; Entranced with a Bronze,” the Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2002.

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