In Argentina, after an earthquake, a young girl lifted a FIVE-TONNESS concrete slab to rescue a loved one from under her. Then 10 huge men could not lift this slab.
In the Far North, a pilot was repairing an airplane. Suddenly someone pushed him on the shoulder, looked around - a polar bear! Out of fear, he (the pilot) jumped on the wing.
A 68-year-old woman in the Kaluga Region during a fire took out a chest from the hut, which then five firefighters could not budge, one of them strained and for a long time cursed the "witch grandma".
These stories are like fairy tales, but I'm 99% sure that they are not fictional. Because, studying the seemingly unrealistic phenomenon of “turning on superpowers under the influence of stress,” I talked to a very real heroine who, well, is in no way inferior to either a pilot-jumper or a transforming grandmother.
I met a fifth-grader Natasha Plahotnyuk at the end of last summer in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa, the whole city was making noise about her, while people frowned significantly: it was not without otherworldly power. How else?
A thin-legged, puny girl pulled out of the river a "pretty drowning" uncle weighing almost 100 kg, it is physically unrealistic!
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“I didn't think it was possible or not,” Natasha shrugged her shoulders, “I saw that in our river, 20 meters from the shore, Uncle Sasha was drowning. She threw herself into the water. I swam under water for several meters - so that faster. He himself did not row, was slippery and heavy. I lifted his head above the water, grabbed his right hand and pulled him to the shore. I had to row only with my feet, it was very hard.
Was driven to the shallow - and almost lost consciousness. For three days after that my legs and arms were terribly painful, I could not walk, apparently, I was very overstrained, but when I rescued, I did not feel anything like that, it was as if an unknown force was leading me! Then, for the sake of a joke, I tried to drag my friends along the river, they are 3 times lighter than Uncle Sasha, so nothing happened!"
Why, in moments of danger, do we turn on superpowers and can they be activated as we daily need in everyday life? For example, you are late for a trolleybus - and suddenly you run!
“Because any organism is programmed to survive. First of all - your own. Sometimes - another organism, after all, a person is a "social animal". But this is not the only point,”explains Alexander Balykin, sports psychologist, general director of the Harmony Ability Development Academy.
Imagine a shark
- I will try not to be boring and explain in a popular way. The human body tries to survive at any cost. Therefore, in an extreme situation, paradoxical programs are turned on! Not at all - at a number of people, on the contrary, everything goes numb and paralyzed from shock. The reason for the differences is in the properties of the nervous system, as well as in the attitudes acquired in the course of life, which are a brake on the disclosure of superpowers (examples of such attitudes: “Whatever you do, you will still remain poor”, “It is useless to say anything - it’s all the same these people will not understand anything”, etc.).
It is possible to artificially simulate a situation in which the body will increase its capabilities at the expense of hidden resources, having laid out 100%, in two ways: the first is to create a real threat to survival or the threat of pain, but I would not recommend this, the second is to simulate a threat in your own imagination. Let me explain. Australian swimmer, world champion and Olympic medalist Steve Holland, who set 12 world records at one time, developed and maintained maximum speed, imagining that a giant shark was chasing him. But not all athletes reveal their secrets - most of them are superstitious and classify working methods.
Although I can remember a case when I was able to reveal additional resource of one of the boxers with the help of a "magic phrase". The motive for boxing this guy was a desire to take revenge on his father, who beat his mother (he was 7 years old when he set this goal for himself). Being engaged in boxing, he forgot why he took up this sport.
But the “forgotten” goal, which I found with the help of a special technique, helped him to become the European champion - for this, the coach had to whisper to the pupil in the final, pointing to the opponent: “Imagine that this scoundrel offended your mother!” The said phrase activated a hidden stress resource (the guy didn't have more shocks in life than hurting someone's mother!), And bam - victory!"
Good-bye losers
“I would not advise you to specially simulate situations, so that your body regularly exerts itself at 100%, you will simply burn yourself,” continues A. Balykin. “However, I’m ready to declassify some sports technologies, but they should be used rarely and in extreme cases.”
Several psychics with whom I talked unanimously asserted: in stressful situations, it is not the strength of the individual that increases, but his influence on the properties of objects changes. In the case of the grandmother and the chest - simply … the chest became lighter. But for some reason it is more difficult to believe in such a version.
How to become superman
Don't imagine yourself a winner, or your brain won't have to strain to spur your body.
Imagine the worst thing that can follow failure. Then the brain will turn on the "extreme survival" mode.
Remove from your environment incentives that lower your resource: people who doubt your strengths, those who have already lost something.
Falling asleep, remember the positive images of the past - this way the body will better rest.
Before the “race,” find what can trigger your brain to activate. “I, for example (says psychologist Alexander Balykin), when I was boxing, went into the ring, imagining that my opponent had offended my beloved girl. And tore it apart."
Do not overdo it with the imagination of "doomsday pictures" - depression may come.
Olga Kostenko-Popova