I use the term mental rehearsal to describe how we can best employ our frontal lobe and take advantage of its advanced faculties to make significant changes in our life. When we rehearse, we have a more focused and purposeful intent. We don’t simply run through a routine set of exercises; we perform as if the occasion were a concert. That’s the key difference in the mind. A rehearsal is supposed to replicate the experience of the actual doing of the thing. In this case, mentally rehearsing and the actual doing are one and the same. Each time we initiate some action, engage in a behavior,
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