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THE DART
COMPETITION -- THREE WAYS!
by Joan Bramsch
One fond memory of those years concerns the Dart competition held between three groups of third-graders, both girls and boys. Each group of five children practiced differently to prepare for the Great Dart Throw. Group One
practiced throwing darts at a target for twenty minutes each day during
recess after lunch. Group Two practiced throwing darts at a target
for ten minutes each day, and simply thought about
throwing the darts at the target for an additional ten minutes each day.
Group Three never touched a dart, but only thought
about throwing darts at a target for twenty minutes every day.
Imaging the act of throwing a dart at a target, the children in this group,
with eyes closed while breathing deeply, would "see" themselves
pick up a dart, heft the weight of it, gauge the distance to the target,
then throw the dart, hitting the target exactly in the center of the red
bull's eye. Over and over this group repeated in the imagination the
act of spotting, throwing and hitting the target
with a dart during those twenty minutes after lunch each day. After three weeks' target practice
and/or imaging the target practice, the competition
was held. Can you guess the results? Of course, you can, if you
believe in the power of the mind! Group One, who had practiced actual
throwing at a target each day, got fair results,
scoring one bull's eye for every five throws. That's a twenty
percent success rate. Group Two, who had practiced actual
throwing at a target for half the time and imaging
throwing at a target for the other half time, obtained good scores, with
one bull's eye for every four throws for a twenty-five percent success
rate. But Group Three, the group of children
who had only imaged throwing a dart at a target, got
excellent scores. For every two throws, the members of Group
Three got one bull's eye. That's a FIFTY PERCENT SUCCESS RATE!
And they had never held a dart in their hands or
aimed at a target before the moment of competition. Now you tell me...Is the mind more
powerful than the body? Or what!
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