Basic Considerations on Muscle Usage in Performance:
1. The muscles of a joint can be in any of thress conditions: absolutely rigid, absilutely loose (i.e., relaxed), or balanced.
(a) "Rigid" means all muscles tight, as when you clench your rist.
(b) Loose" means no muscle tightened in any way, as when you shake your hand to warm your fingers.
(c) "Balanced" means one muscle tight, the other loose, as when you lift your arm and hold it at a certain height. As soon as you relax the holding muscle, the arm falls, and the "pulling-down" muscle has not been used at all.
2. Never tighten any muscle except those whose tightness is necessary for the technical excution. You will find that nearly every difficulty in any muscular activity, turns out to be, when mastered, merely the discovery of how to loosen certain muscles whose tightness was holding you back.
3. When tightening the muscles of a joint, do not allow others to tighten sympathetically.
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Hypnotic Imagery:
External Imagery is a completely visually imagined experience of oneself perfoming with precision.
Internal Imagery involves a proprioceptive or "feeling" type of mental rehearsal and is usually non-visual.
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