Visualization is an essential tool for climbers to rehearse both the physical movements and the mental experience of a climb.

“In rock climbing, like when I'm climbing hard roots, let's say, you always just imagine the route. You think about it, you remember the moves. Part of it is to physically remember what to do.”

Israel Adesanya utilizes visualization as a key method to manifest positive outcomes and emotional states before his fights.

“I'm use that's how I manifest I use my imagination so when I was visualizing I just remember being so happy I might have be on shrooms in that shower but as I was visually I was so happy and I was like man I just want everyone to feel how happy I am right now just once”

He advocates for visualizing the desired emotional state before a competition rather than imagining specific technical scenarios.

“I started visualizing how I wanted to feel before the heat started and that was a lot easier. And so for me like if I feel this just relaxed kind of letting go like I'm going into the heat like this. And so that's when I do my best.”

High-level performance requires training the craft, the body, and the mind without leaving these aspects to chance.

“I've come to really understand that there's only three things that people can train. They can train their craft, they can train their body, and they can train their mind. And the tip of the arrow, the best of the best of the best, they are not leaving any one of those up to chance.”

Shooters in the NBA must learn to regulate their emotions and mentally navigate hot and cold streaks while managing the demanding schedule.

“So learning how to manage that one, manage that emotional regulation like uh when you're playing less games, it's a lot easier to get up for a game, you know, to let that adrenaline, you just are on high adrenaline all day and then maybe the next day you crash. In the NBA, you have to be able to app”

Practitioners can train themselves to become masters of their thought processes by systematically applying techniques to avoid unwholesome thoughts.

“One will think whatever thought one wishes to think and one will not think any thought one does not wish to think.”