I can’t promise you Championships. I can promise to give you the greatest opportunity to get those Championships and, more important, to have a joyous life of health, well-being, and success along that road.
All my work is dedicated to University of Wisconsin long distance runner Sarah Shulze (2000-2022) who committed suicide. We taught her how to run, but not how to live.
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1. Yang: the masculine mind, cognition : what goes on between the ears; the processes of awareness and knowing that include thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, conceptions, imaginings, evaluations, discernment, and reasoning.
2. Yin: the feminine heart, emotion: feels-good or feels-bad; the good (or bad) perceptual feelings of physiological changes and states of being within the brain and body (precipitated by cognitive activities of awareness and knowing).
3. Yinyang: Cognitive-emotional awareness: Good-feeling cognitions correlate with a healthy physiology. Bad-feeling cognitions correlate with an unhealthy physiology.
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Success is a state of being. Be it!
1. The mountain exists as it does because we (have been taught to) believe it so. What do you believe?
2. Success or failure in competition, or in life itself, is a cognitive-emotional state first determined within the battlefield of the mind.
3. Champions, in sport or in life, prevail because their cognitive-emotional projection of reality becomes dominant and prohibits the competition from seeing the reality of their own success.
4. The outcome of a competition, or conflict in life itself, matches the cognitive-emotional state of being of the victor and the loser. The play of the game is just an opportunity to determine who has the greater capacity to remain in which state.
5. All things being equal, the team who builds and maintains their own cognitive-emotional knowing and good feeling of well-being and success will win because they are allowing the events, conditions, and circumstances of their intent.
6. An athlete’s outward experience in competition is but a reflection of their inner cognitive-emotional being.
7. To re-create the cognitive-emotional state of being of one’s past, best performance is one step closer to creating now, a new best performance
8. When an athlete takes the time and effort to emotionally feel good, they are allowing a synergistic harmony of the mind, body, and consciousness that then has the capacity to respond to the demands needed for those extra-ordinary performances required in competition.
9. All things being equal, the athlete who builds and maintains their own cognitive-emotional knowing and good feeling of well-being and success will win because they are allowing the events, conditions, and circumstances of their intent, desire, and wanting.
10. The Mind shapes reality; Emotions indicate the desirability of that shape.
11. When joy and good feelings permeate your life, practice, and competition… good things happen.
12. To have the physiological capacity for situational awareness, comprehension, and response, that is, to have the neurological and biochemical physiology demanded by a world-class performance, emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings must be in a feeling-good state of being.
13. Good and effective decisions and their actualization cannot be made in a vortex of negative emotions.
14. Disassociating, ignoring, or camouflaging any unaddressed emotionally negative feelings will be revealed within a substandard performance and, even more dramatically, within an injury.
15. Bruce Lee never resolved the emotional dissonance brought on by the conflicts within his mind and thus was never able to move beyond the confines of a physical universe and become the master he so desired to be.
16. To cognitively will behavior while ignoring one’s own emotional state of being is to ignore one’s own physical and mental health and well-being with possibly disastrous consequences.
17. Good feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings have an evolved positive correlation with health, well-being, and effective decision-making prowess (and their actualization).
18. Negative, bad feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings have an evolved correlation with the lack of health, well-being and effective and successful decision-making prowess and their actualization.
19. Emotions, attitudes, moods, and feelings are leading indicators of the desirability (feels-good) or un-desirability (feels-bad) coming rendezvous of people, places, and events (of the next play, move, or shot).
20. Enjoying life and competition is necessary for the actualization of that which is wanted, desired, and intended.
21. A person who never resolves the emotional dissonance brought on by the conflicts within their mind will never find the internal peace and harmony needed to move beyond the confines of a physical universe of objects and linear cause and effect and reach their power that exists within.
22. Intent, free from conflict, bias, and discord allows a harmonious rendezvous of people, places, and events
(of the next play, move, or shot).
23. As in all sports and in life, the opportunity is there to enjoy; it is our responsibility to make it so (our success depends on it).
24. Athletics no longer live in a cognitive world of mental toughness denying their emotional world, but a cognitive-emotional world of re-processing cognitive activities guided by emotional awareness.
25. Because joy has an evolved correlation with health, well-being, and success we have evolved to be joyous beings.
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All of life is QiGong, the cultivation of energy.
(If an athlete learns how to harmonize their cognitive activities with their emotions to feel good, they have the capacity to reach through time and space and attract the necessary ingredients and circumstances for their success, including luck.)
Winning Is Dependent on YOUR Feeling-Good Energy (Qi) of Success: what is YOUR skill development and training to obtain, maintain, and compete within the feeling-good energy (Qi) of success?
Of the all your years of practice developing the skills of your sport, how much time have you spent developing your inner power of Qi that means success?
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Winning Is Dependent on YOUR Feeling-Good Energy of Success
(A Basketball Analogy)
To play well an athlete must “Feel It”! And “It” feels good. Are you feeling good? Are you enjoying your game? Are you enjoying your team on the floor and how they are playing? Are you adding to the good-feeling energy that means your success or are you feeling down and dwelling upon what is going wrong and adding to your opponent’s energy of success? Always focus and dwell upon the good-feeling energy of what is going right, never dwell upon the bad-feeling energy of what maybe going wrong.
Re-create and get into that good-feeling place of success and making baskets in PRACTICE, in pregame WARM-UPS, and especially during THE GAME. Emotional feelings have a huge significant and evolutionary meaning. Good feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings have an evolved correlation with a healthy, robust, and winning physiology of success. Bad feeling emotions, moods, attitudes, and feelings have an evolved correlation with an unhealthy, weak, and losing physiology. (But don’t get so “high” and “manic” that you lose touch and forget how to PLAY YOUR GAME.)
What was your emotional state of being when winning… and then losing at the end? What was your emotional state when you were winning? How about when you were losing?
To play your best, to make baskets, to not have turnovers, an athlete absolutely must create the feeling-good EMOTIONAL STATE of their best games. Use your thoughts, imagination, and DO THINGS to get into the good-feeling place of success. You choose what to think about and what to imagine and what to do and you get into that good-feeling place of power and success. Connect with your “Higher Power” (whatever that may be) and recreate in your head AND in your heart your best games and how good they EMOTIONALLY FELT.
Set your intentions to get EVERY REBOUND, to make EVERY BASKET, to complete EVERY PASS and to emotionally FEEL YOUR POWER…. Does your power emotionally feel-good? ABSOLUTELY! So, what happens when you feel down and emotionally feel-bad? YOU LOSE! You miss a basket. You turn the ball over. You don’t get the rebound. “The rich DO get richer, and the poor DO get poorer,” says Matthew 25:29. Are you getting richer or are you getting poorer? FEEL IT. Are you feeling richer or are you feeling poorer?
In the game, use your Time-Outs and Half-Time to get into (or back into) your good-feeling place of power and success. If you feel your loss of momentum and their gain of momentum, use a time-out to STOP your opponent’s momentum and THEIR good-feelings of success and winning! Use your playing time when moving the ball up the court and when passing the ball around and TO AFFIRM your good emotional feeling of success…. “WE are the winners of this game!”
The team that emotionally gets down and feels-bad and loses their connection to their feeling good “Higher Power” and feeling-good “Winning State of Being” …. will lose. The team that emotionally gets up and feels-good and keeps their connection to their feeling good “Higher Power” and feeling-good “Winning State of Being” …. will WIN! Are you a loser or a winner? FEEL IT! BE IT! WIN IT! LET’S DO IT!
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(Reference: Jackson, A.O. (2025). (Technical Paper with Supplements.) Cognitive-Emotional Re-Processing Control, Cultivation, and Education: The Linguistic Semantics of Cognitive vs. Emotional Dysregulation. Symbiotic Psychology Press. (15,500-word paper, free PDF download, new tab))
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Success is a state of being.
An athlete’s biology has evolved over millions of years of survival of the fittest, most powerful, strongest, and agile of bodies as well as survival of the most clever, creative, and cunning minds that ever have lived on this planet. An athlete’s evolutionary heritage has survived billions upon billions of battles, conflicts, and encounters and is now at the pinnacle, the top, the summit of the highest peaks.
Becoming a “BAGUBA” IS NOT about brutally dominating the opposition – physically, emotionally, and mentally. NOR IS a “BAGUBA” about tolerating and playing through pain, injury, and adversity. A “BAGUBA” is brutally aggressive in UTILIZING THEIR OWN EMOTIONS TO GUIDE THEIR OWN COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR towards health, well-being, and effective and successful decision-making prowess and ability. A “BAGUBA” develops and dictates (within their personal power of Qi) a focused and conscious state of desire, want, and intent to allow the forces of nature to rendezvous in a most spectacular and victorious competition.
“BAGUBA” Power is about mental discipline, not mental toughness.
Personal Power of Qi: “BAGUBA” Training and Conditioning Manual For All Directors, Athletes, and Coaches
By Andrew O. Jackson
This work is dedicated to University of Wisconsin long distance runner Sarah Shulze (2000-2022) who committed suicide. We taught her how to run, but not how to live.
Link: free downloadable PDF: “BAGUBA” Sports Psychology Training Manual VII, new tab (rev2024-07-06a)
(Reference: Jackson, A.O. (2025). (Technical Paper with Supplements.) Cognitive-Emotional Re-Processing Control, Cultivation, and Education: The Linguistic Semantics of Cognitive vs. Emotional Dysregulation. Symbiotic Psychology Press. (15,500-word paper, free PDF download, new tab))
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Success or failure in competition, or in life itself, is a cognitive- emotional state first determined within the battlefield of the mind. Bruce Lee never resolved the emotional dissonance brought on by the conflicts within his mind and thus was never able to move beyond the confines of a physical universe and become the master he so desired to be.
The Personal Power of Qi: An Athlete’s Evolutionary Heritage of Strength, Speed, Agility, Cunning, and Success (46,200 words)
Andrew O. Jackson
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The YinYang of Cognitive-Emotional Dynamics: A Study Outline into Your Personal Power of Qi (4,400 words)
Andrew O. Jackson
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The greatness of the human life experience emerges from the flames of individual desire arising out of hell’s fiery conflicts on earth. Intention is forged in these fires. Emotion aligns our journey with these new intentions. Each succeeding generation will have its own mountains to climb and waters to cross with their own stars to navigate towards. Intent is that guiding star; and it is our emotions that perceive its light. The more joyous the feeling, the more harmonious and powerful the wonders revealed through life’s journey.
