Michael Phelps won 23 Olympic gold medals using a mental technique most athletes ignore:
"The biggest thing that really separated me through my career was my mental game. Everything that was in between my ears."
Michael explains how he used visualization:
"When I would visualize, I'd visualize every single thing getting up to a meet, probably a month or so in advance. What could happen. What I want to happen. And what I don't want to happen. Because when it happened, I was prepared for it."
He describes the goal:
"When I got to a swim meet, there's nothing I can control at that point except what I do. I can't control what anybody else does. So I want to know how the race could go, how I don't want the race to go, and in a perfect world, how the race should go. So I could get behind the block and not have to think about anything."
His coach Bob Bowman reveals how they trained this skill:
"When Michael was young, I gave his mom a book of progressive relaxation. Before he'd go to bed at night, she would read this progression of things: clench your fists, work through your whole body. He got so good she'd just open the book, say two things, and he'd be asleep."
Bowman explains why visualization works:
"The brain cannot distinguish between something that's vividly visualized and something that's real. By the time Michael steps up on the block at the Olympics, he's swum that race hundreds of times in his mind. All he has to do is shut everything down and it goes on autopilot."
Michael adds the key detail most miss:
"When I would visualize, it would be what you want it to be, what you don't want it to be, what it could be. So you're always ready for anything. If I have a suit rip, fine, I need another suit, put it on. Any small thing that could go wrong, I'm ready for."
@caleb7263495133@kittijmn It was more than likely one of the better marvel movies. Just gotta gotta have an attention span higher than your average doom scroller.
⚠️ NEW FARA FILING
Meet Alexandra Rittenberg.
Israel just added a 25-year-old solidcore Pilates coach as a subcontractor to its $9 MILLION influence campaign targeting American Gen Z.
FARA Short Form #7649.
Filed April 13, 2026.
Received by DOJ April 16, 2026.
She is listed as a SUBCONTRACTOR to Brad Parscale's Clock Tower X LLC, which is registered as a foreign agent for the State of Israel via Havas Media Germany.
Her "primary business address" on the federal filing is a rented mailbox at a Parcel Plus in Alexandria, VA.
Her actual day jobs:
• Client Strategy at Convergence Media (Mike Shields, former RNC Chief of Staff)
• Strategic Partners & Media (GOP firm, clients include Hogan and Stefanik)
• solidcore fitness coach in Ballston, Arlington
She is 25. Born 2000. University of Kentucky grad.
Why her? The contract demanded it.
Clock Tower X's Statement of Work requires 80% of content targeted at Gen Z across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts. Minimum 50 million impressions per month. Integration into Salem Media Network (Parscale is Chief Strategy Officer there).
Israel needed a native Gen Z operator with GOP political media credentials and a pre-built fitness influencer footprint.
They found one.
The original contract was $6M through December 31, 2025. Israel added $3M and Rittenberg filed in April 2026. That is a 50% budget increase and a calendar extension. The campaign is scaling, not winding down.
This is one Short Form. There are more coming.
Full breakdown and primary source documents:
americansfortransparency.org/investigations…
Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.
thenation.com/article/politi…
@scrapabi@4vataruniverse So, the very first avatar's soul was bonded to the avatar spirit (known as the spirit of light)
When the avatar dies, the soul of the avatar and their spirit, is reborn in a new person.
so the avatar has ALWAYS been the soul of the same person reborn for 10,000 years
@Kachidey4you This is why LoK was considered over hyped. The fight scenes and powers are great but story and character development wise isn’t all that .
Final season of 'The Boys' features Putin
'America deserves the truth. Turns out Russia is not our enemy. They are a strong, family-first nation and don't put up with trans bathrooms'
Once again, supposed anti-Russian propaganda makes Russia look as based as ever
🚨 Netanyahu: “This is confidential… and can’t be leaked.”
Too late, Bibi.
Tucker Carlson just dropped the leaked interrogation tapes exposing how Netanyahu allegedly funneled $35 million a month from Qatar to Hamas using American tax dollars as a divide-and-rule strategy to weaken the Palestinian Authority and block any peace deal.
Eric Swalwell(D) and Tony Gonzales(R) both announce their resignations today from Congress.
Both Congressmen were linked to Jeffrey Epstein type sexual issues.
I resigned from Congress because I fought President Trump to release the Epstein files and he called me a traitor and threatened to destroy me.
And to this day, no one in the Epstein files has been prosecuted.
And Congress is still a cesspool.
A telling sign of panic for the establishment. CNN reports searches for the Zionist lobby AIPAC have skyrocketed 363 percent. The American public is finally waking up to how foreign money controls their politicians, turning the lobby into a massive political liability.
Trump voter reacts to Trump's post depicting himself as Jesus:
"That's a disgrace. I'm very upset about that. I mean, how egotistical can you possibly be? I'm ashamed that he would actually do that. The man I voted for and trust."