HAVE YOU EVER ENTERED THE ZONE?
It can happen when you are completely balanced physically and mentally during a highly physical and mentally intense activity. It’s an event, and you may not be conscious of it at the time, where the physical and mental components of the activity become synchronised to the point where, within acceptable limits, you don’t make mistakes.
You can’t just enter the zone at will, but it may be possible to prepare yourself mentally and physically in such a way that it could lead up to it happening.
High intensity physical exercise and focus during competitive events or, a very high level of intense non stop training may set you up for entering the zone. Total absorption in your activity is a prerequisite for entering the zone. Your mind and body must be completely absorbed with whatever you are doing. It’s a subconscious response set off by the intensity of the activity you are in and it’s probably in all of us. But the experience of entering the zone is not going to happen to all of us, in fact, only a very few are ever likely to enter the zone.
Keep in mind you can’t make it happen by a conscious thought because your conscious focus is somewhere else and it’s the primal inner self that is the zone. Top of their game athletes playing with enormous intensity mentally and physically are the ones most likely to experience it, although it’s still going to be a chance happening.
Remember, you can’t just will it to happen. It’ll happen or it won’t. If it does you must be really on your game and to all intent and purpose a true athlete.
So maybe if you put an extra amount of effort and focus into your training, who knows, maybe you’ll enter the zone and a goal that’s seemed way out of reach, is suddenly realised.
In the mean time all the very best with your, focused, high intensity, training.