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When Athletes and Artists Achieve Their Top Results Top athletes and artists know the state that helps them achieve top results. Psychologists call it a state of great enthusiasm or a state of altered consciousness. Athletes call it the zone. It happens during the moments of your greatest pleasure; when you forget everything around you and allow yourself to go with the flow, get into the zone, contact your higher self, etc. Your conscious mind rests in the background and doesn’t give any instructions. It is interesting that champions have defined this state of ecstasy as the greatest reward, over glory, prestige or medals.

Looking at when such perfect performances happen, you will discover that they only happen when you.re not burdened with how you will perform. The routine of your experience carry you through. This heightened state will remain as long as you don’t think about the results. It happens all the time in sports someone who is not in the top ranking defeats everyone above them and wins the competition. They continued anyway, knowing they had no chance to win, and thus freed their mind of all fears of defeat and delivered the best performance of their career.