This is a true story relating to the power of Visalization. It is about Natan Sharansky, an Israeli Minister, a human rights activist and author who, in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, once spent nine long years in different Soviet prisons, on charges of espionage.
A chess prodigy and, aged 14, Natan was a champion of Donetsk, his native Ukrainian town. He could play more than one game simultaneously in his head visualizing them (without using a chessboard) . "But in prison it became clear why I needed this," he recalls. In his empty, freezing prison cell, with none to converse, he played games in his mind, having to move for both sides, white and black. "Thousands of games - I won them all." He did this to maintain mental sanity, he added. His imaginary opponent in all these games was the formidable chess champion Gary Kasparov of Soviet Union.
Many years later, strangely, he had the opportunity to actually play with Kasparov, when the Chess Champion had visited a gathering of Chess players. Natan was one of the players seated with 25 players and Kasparov was playing with all of them simultaneously. Ultimately , whereas all others were lost and out within no time against Gary Kasparov, Gary and Natan carried on for a long time had to eventually stop in a stalemate condition .
All those visualized games with Kasparov has gone deep into his subconscious mind so deep that he had been very confident not to lose, preempting evey move from his opponent, he said once.
The above story shows how visualization does wonders .Call it the Law of attraction or the Secret or Flow, I leave it to the readers to guess. But yes, the phenomenon seems to work for me. whether it is public speaking, or a game, or an interview, it makes the mind ready by enabling the subconscious mind. Like muscle memory, this kind of simulation is enabling brain muscles to do wonders.
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