Posted by: mindoversports on: March 21, 2008
We often read in today’s sports pages about young male college athletes who violate their team’s code of acceptable behavior by doing drugs, becoming physically violent with a girl friend, getting into a fist fight outside a bar, and other inappropriate activities. In almost every instance the head coach is quoted in the media as [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 12, 2008
Roger Willard grew up in an upper-middle-class family where money was never an issue. Yet, by today’s standards his family would be considered dysfunctional. There was little nurturing or love, and almost no physical contact, such as hugging. There were days when, as a teenager, Roger often felt no one cared about him. He never [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 12, 2008
It is not unusual for the media to give wide exposure to flawed or slanted studies. One example is a study conducted with emotionally disturbed children. Researchers compared families in which there was a divorce with families that stayed together. They determined that when families stay together the likelihood of producing emotionally disturbed children is [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 12, 2008
1. Cellular Phones. Some research is finding that radio frequencies producing high radiation levels may damage cells, causing them to become cancerous. Cellular phone research should not be focused on those individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer, but rather on the number of cells in an individual’s body that have been damaged by radiation [...]
Posted by: mindoversports on: March 12, 2008
The following is a chapter from Marv’s new book, “The psi Factor.”
The idea for writing this chapter came to me a number of years after I had worked with cancer patients and sickle cell patients. At first I was hesitant to mention what I had learned from conducting workshops with them because I knew the [...]