We rarely think about the invisible power that surrounds, the powerful electrical currents that surround us on a daily basis that can teach us a lot of things about our muscular strength if we're aware them and try to emulate the way they flow and ebb.

Throughout our homes, there's electricity flowing inside our walls and out into the myriad of devices that bring convenience to our modern day lives. You can get an electrical shock from one wall socket that will contract your muscles with such severity and quickness of muscular contractions that it can knock you clear across the room with amazing ease.

The ability for an electrical current to contact your muscles quickly and intensely is in the end exactly what we're looking for in increasing our muscular strength. The speed at which electricity travels is and its quick release is something you might look at and try to emulate more closely if you're going to try to propel your athletic performances into a new realm.

Garin, think of the power and speed of an electrical shock. The speed at which it can contract all the muscles is astounding. The speed at which it can release that muscular tension once it stops is equally astonishing.

If we can try to emulate the speed and complete contraction at which an electrical shock contracts your muscles, you would see an immediate increase in your strength except for one big problem.

The problem is, is that an electrical shock activates ALL our muscles at the same time - activating opposite muscle groups all at once. And that is precisely what paralyzes us from moving.

On a much lower level, this is exactly what we do wrong when we try to "power" our muscles with what I call raw testosterone willpower - that blind activation of our musculature by thinking that raw warrior mentality of will and determination will activate supreme muscle power.

On a much lower frequency level by doing this, we activate all our musculature much as an electrical shock and end up freezing our muscles because the electrical currents that would benefit us the most if they were precisely directly are, in fact, contracting too much, too slow, and without a quick enough release.

The entire first season of the television hit series, "Heroes", was devoted to the interaction between all the characters who are becoming gradually aware of their unique superhero strengths and abilities and how they're going to stop the incredible exploding man from destroying an entire city.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s a really fascinating premise that a man alone, without any explosive devices whatsoever, could activate every cell in his body to ignite a nuclear reaction.

This man's hands would begin glowing and emitting blinding light and searing heat just by his thoughts alone. Once activated, this unthinkable destructive power would radically spread throughout his body until it burst in one gigantic cataclysm.

Needless to say, any kind of explosion that brings harm to to life is repugnant. But what if we turned this idea completely around – on its head?

What if, just like in the TV series, our thoughts could generate enough power inside us that our body would begin glowing and eminating such tremendous heat that it would burst and engulf an entire city? Not with destructive powers, of course, but with infectious enthusiasm, unstoppable joy, passion, love, and the tremendous raw power for good that we are really capable of generating?

What if these things could radiate from our entire being so powerfully that they could deeply inspire all around us in a gigantic wave and mushroom cloud of explosive power, light, and energy?

What if this all wasn’t just in a short one-time blast, but could last throughout an entire day, a week, or a month with such a powerful force that its light alone would radiate through walls and light up those all around you?

This, of course, is where everything starts - with our minds.
And isn't it true that strength and power actually come from the same source?

If we’re truly to master the mind body connection, then we must remember that it's our minds that have infinite power over our bodies - not the other way around. Whether it's to gain more strength and speed or success in life, it's paramount for us to find ways to secure complete mastery over what we are able to imagine and then translate it directly to our actions.

For it's when we train ourselves to see with complete clarity and mental focus that we are able to propel ourselves forward way beyond the norm - for clarity of vision is what makes the difference between the winners and the also-rans.

So it goes that when it comes to working out, I find that the more clarity you have in putting your mind into your muscles, the stronger and faster you can become in a shorter amount of time. In CoreForce Energy, it's the clarity of mental imagery combined with congruency of movement and physiology that makes dramatic improvements in powerful impulses that generate great increases in strength and speed.

You hear personal trainers to acting coaches to martial artists expounding on the virtues and importance of a mind/body connection. But, it's funny how you rarely hear of any of them giving you something powerful enough so that you can effortlessly anchor your imagery with the precision that is necessary to manifest a noticeable difference in your strength or how you move.

I've found through the years as a coach that if you give someone a precise picture instead of paying lip service to "getting into the muscle" they can achieve astounding successes in a short amount of time.

I grew up with the idea that every day, you should attempt to do something you think you can't do; something that seems perhaps impossible; something that you know you'll fail in - at least in the first few times. By failing and trying every day to do something new, you find that you get better at circumventing those walls that hold you back. You learn to approach those walls with better tools and with tools that have been honed by the experiences of your failures.

By making this a common occurrence by getting used to the idea that you might fail the first time – and every day - it'll get easier and less threatening. By doing just this alone, you will be learning skills that'll make you exceptional and stronger and more confident.

Of course, for a lot of people, failing is not good for their self-esteem because to them, failure means sliding backward, losing ground. But, if you keep this idea that you try something new every day that seems impossible, your self-esteem gets used to the idea through repetition that successes will eventually come. Along with that you'll benefit from the joy of knowing you accomplished something that you thought you couldn't do. Your self-confidence will begin to soar.

Now multiply this by trying seven new things each day for a week and feeling the joy of learning seven new skills. They don't have to be big things either. Just try to do something different if it isn't a skill. Do something you wouldn't normally do. Go off the well-beaten track. Just making the attempt is half the battle and is the first step. It might mean picking a book off your shelf that you haven't read waiting for that rainy day. Yes, that book that you bought months ago with good intensions of reading.

Doing something different will inspire your brain. And where your brain is inspired, you body will respond in kind and move and feel differently almost on its own. By inspiring brain and body together by doing something new and challenging, they will find new ways to accomplish what seemed to be impossible.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Don't be afraid to take the time to do something different. Don't be afraid that you won't become great at it. Don't be afraid of attempting something that might injure your ego. You'll get over it if you make it an everyday routine. Your ego will let go of its insistence to not lose face if it knows that "for the next half-hour, you can fail all you like".