I’ve heard two different believes on this. I think there was a university study related to this. One belief is to go blank. The other is that your mind never quits so the best thing to do is control it. Martin Stephanek said he does the first one, so you really can’t argue that it doesn’t work. Kirk Krack likes to control his thoughts. He said he likes to think of all the things in detail that happened in the previous day.
I do most of my dry statics at work at my desk so I try to work for the first 2:00 to 2:30. I use a nose clip to help hold the contracts and to have both hands free. If it’s an easy mundane task sometimes I can work until 3:00. After that my work is not accurate enough to be worth doing so I switch to controlling my thoughts.
In the performance clinic I was partnered with a guy who had never done statics. On the first day he did 2:30 with the usual taps and no talking. He said he believed he could do better if I would talk to him and keep his mind busy, so I did and he jumped up to 4:00 on the next day. The day after that, in my continual thinking of new things to say to him, I said pick one of the three best times of your life and replay it. He came up at 2:30 and said the only things he could think of were exciting times, like sex or when he won a motocross race, and those thoughts ruined his relaxation.
For me all my best experiences in life involved relationships, usually wife or children. These thoughts are very relaxing to me and it was a real value accessing time for me at the clinic. Memories were so clear it was unreal! I hated being interrupted with taps and being forced to respond. I kept upping the time I wanted the first tap so I would have longer to think.
I feel like I have found a new inner peace. From no on, my religion includes wet statics.
don
I do most of my dry statics at work at my desk so I try to work for the first 2:00 to 2:30. I use a nose clip to help hold the contracts and to have both hands free. If it’s an easy mundane task sometimes I can work until 3:00. After that my work is not accurate enough to be worth doing so I switch to controlling my thoughts.
In the performance clinic I was partnered with a guy who had never done statics. On the first day he did 2:30 with the usual taps and no talking. He said he believed he could do better if I would talk to him and keep his mind busy, so I did and he jumped up to 4:00 on the next day. The day after that, in my continual thinking of new things to say to him, I said pick one of the three best times of your life and replay it. He came up at 2:30 and said the only things he could think of were exciting times, like sex or when he won a motocross race, and those thoughts ruined his relaxation.
For me all my best experiences in life involved relationships, usually wife or children. These thoughts are very relaxing to me and it was a real value accessing time for me at the clinic. Memories were so clear it was unreal! I hated being interrupted with taps and being forced to respond. I kept upping the time I wanted the first tap so I would have longer to think.
I feel like I have found a new inner peace. From no on, my religion includes wet statics.
don