Imagine a group of athletes training for a major running competition. In training, they show approximately the same results, their functional capabilities are equal; one wonders why some are doomed to win, while others always lose, even
having higher results shown on control assessments?
When all the runners line up at the preliminary starting line, it is clear that almost everyone is worried and nervous. But at the same time, some turn red, while others turn pale. We know from history that when Julius Caesar selected warriors from among the recruits for his invincible legions, he first tried to properly confuse the man. Fear manifests itself in different people in different ways - in some the facial skin turns pale, while in others, on the contrary, due to the rush of blood to the skin, it turns red. Think and tell me - did Caesar try to get the pale or blushing ones into his army?
This means that there is a huge, fundamental difference between activity under normal conditions (say, in training, in a regular lesson) and the same activity, but at major competitions or at an entrance exam, on the results of which your whole life may depend.
signs such as “complex”, “difficult”, “special”, “critical”, “emergency”, “extraordinary”, “extreme”, “super-ecectremal”, “hyper-stressful”, etc. are called. It turns out that in one case the emphasis is on the characteristics of the objective conditions of activity (complicated conditions), in another on the person’s attitude to the situation that has arisen (“difficult” conditions), in the third the emphasis is on the condition that has arisen in the person (“hyper-stressful” conditions). 
The very concept of extreme conditions is defined by some experts as “unfavorable for life,” others as “conditions requiring the mobilization of the body’s emergency capabilities.” It is known that anyone can run fast if there is a growling shepherd dog rushing behind them. Let's remember the story that happened in KiiTae on the eve of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The police chased one robber and drove him into a dead end from which there was no way out. The street was surrounded on three sides by tall fences.
The police were triumphant - the thief's fate was sealed. But the thief continued to rush forward, increasing his speed
grow; They turned on the siren and the spotlight - this completely frightened the unfortunate man. Having uttered a heartbreaking scream, he took a straight run, with a push of his right leg, soared over a fence 2 m 51 cm high and disappeared. China then needed at least one gold medal at the Olympic Games. It was announced in the newspapers that if this criminal voluntarily came to the stadium in the high jump sector, then everything would be forgiven, and in addition he would be included in the Olympic team and paid a substantial monetary reward. Seven people came to the stadium. The best jumped 2 m 03 cm. This was below the Olympic standard, and just in case, the winner of these “criminal police” competitions was sent to prison.
Or another example that is closer to us. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, at the age of 52, was vacationing in Switzerland. He lay on the green grass, on the bank of the stream with his feet towards the water and admired the clouds floating across the sky. And suddenly a snake’s head swayed before his eyes. And since childhood, Bunin was terrified of snakes. In horror, he jumped up and jumped over the stream. And the width of the stream was 2 m 94 cm. It is known that Bunin was an intelligent man, short in stature, who had never played sports in his life. I am sure that among the readers of this book there are many “cool” guys. Let them try to jump at least 2 m 50 cm. This means that people under normal conditions use only a small fraction of their potential capabilities. Extreme conditions are needed for a person to demonstrate his true capabilities. But it turns out that not all people are able to improve their results in a critical situation for their life. Some, on the contrary, get lost in a difficult situation and are not able to show even their usual results.
Psychologists know that under the influence of various psychological conditions of activity, the influence of some properties of temperament is weakened and others are strengthened. Thus, performance indicators in training sessions show virtually no connections with any property of temperament. In familiar conditions and a calm environment, each person can show everything he is capable of. But performance at competitions is negatively affected by personality traits such as anxiety and emotional excitability. These properties of temperament in competitions, differently than in training, affect other aspects of activity: the duration of concentration of attention before performing exercises, the level of aspirations, etc. change. In particular, under cipecca conditions, the motives of the same activity cause different degrees of neuropsychic stress in athletes with a strong and weak nervous system. In people with a strong nervous system and high motive activity, as a rule, the level of psychological stress is optimal, and this helps to improve their performance. A classic example of the behavior of the American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. After receiving a gold medal in the long jump, he began preparing for the 200-meter final. The interval between these types is 30 minutes. All athletes are under monstrous nervous tension. And Owens calmly wraps himself in a blanket and calmly goes to bed on the green grass of the stadium. Exactly 20 minutes later he wakes up and begins to confidently warm up. The sight of Owens sleeping on the eve of the most important start of his life had a devastating effect on his main competitors. For Ifflx it was a demonstration of absolute confidence in their victory.
As for athletes with a weak or unstable nervous system, with active motivation they usually experience excessive mental stress, leading to deterioration in performance. I remember how, on the eve of the national athletics championship, I, a young 20 km walker, had an ideological and educational conversation: “Tomorrow morning you have the final. The fate of the entire team fight depends on your successful performance. You have to give it your all and show everything you can do.” As a responsible person, I took the instructions I received very seriously. So, start at 8 am. You need to get up at 5 o'clock and eat well. This means you need to go to bed early to get a good night's sleep. And so I went to bed at 21.00 and could not close my eyes until 5 o’clock in the morning. No matter how much I told myself that I needed to sleep, it was all useless. The great responsibility literally crushed me. At least 20 times during the night I started and fought with imaginary opponents until the end. In the morning, completely exhausted, I was able to crawl out of bed with great difficulty. It is known that under the influence of stressful situations, the call zzzzzzz==rzzz
factors, excitation is stimulated and a dominant is formed with varying degrees of mobility of nervous processes. In a person with a strong nervous system, the dominant is stable and stable, while in athletes with a weak nervous system it is unstable and easily turns into inhibition, accompanied by a deterioration in motor capabilities. A very important role in a person’s behavior in an extreme situation is played by such qualities as temperament, sensitivity (emotional sensitivity and excitability), anxiety and activity in overcoming obstacles. Sensitivity in the broad sense of the word is an indicator of efficiency, adaptation of the individual to stressful or extreme conditions. High sensitivity is a quality opposite to the stability and stability of the mental state. Practice shows that as networking increases, the performance of a person deteriorates, especially in a critical situation (say, important competitions, exams, an unexpected attack by hooligans on the street).
It is known that almost all Olympic champions have reduced sensitivity. Why is that? Imagine that a log 30-50 cm thick lies on the ground. Will you worry, worry, worry, doubt your abilities, turn pale with fear if you are asked to walk on this log? Well, of course not. After all, the log is very wide and this walk does not pose any danger to you. What if the same log is thrown over a deep gorge, along the bottom of which a river roars in a fierce battle with huge boulders? And you will no longer be asked, but will be forced to cross the gorge on this log. Some people might die of fear just thinking about it. Before such a test, a person turns pale, sweats, and his arms and legs shake. And why all? He doesn't just want to cross this log. And he really wants it! And the more he convinces himself that “I must”, “I need to force myself”, “at any cost”, “I must”, “otherwise it’s a shame or death on sharp stones”, the less chance he has for successful completing this task. But you just have to convince yourself that there is no danger, that I have run on this log hundreds of times, that because it was raised to a greater height, it has not become thinner - you will complete the task without much difficulty. The main thing is not to look down at the boiling water and sharp rocks at the bottom
gorges. This means that in order not to be afraid, you need to really look at things, soberly assess the situation (this is not the last exam in life, if it doesn’t work out - I’ll come again, if I don’t win at these competitions - I’ll win at others, in the end, both the grade and the sports result - This is not the most important thing in life). Sometimes it’s even useful to downplay the degree of possible danger (so what’s wrong with the fact that a familiar log from childhood was thrown over an abyss, because I ran on it a hundred times while it was lying on the ground). It is no coincidence that the greatest orator of Ancient Rome, Cicero, uttered a paradoxical thought: “A good speech can only be made in front of a herd of sheep.” Therefore, everyone preparing for a public speech must treat his audience without excessive Tpeneia and excessive respect, otherwise he will only be able to shake with fear and babble nonsense. You need to look at the audience from top to bottom. Veda, you prepared, you know everything, what to be afraid of. The time has come to enlighten these “rams”. The same applies to people with speech impediments. The more a person thinks about his stuttering, the more he tries to get rid of it, the worse his speech will be. First, I need to be able to relax and convince myself that my speech impediments have no significance for life. After all, an intelligent person is not visible to the eyes. If I could then, many years ago, be able to relax the night before the start, I would have shown a good result.
According to psychological research, individuals who, due to a violation of the regulatory functions of the individual, are not able to cope with a difficult situation, show a tendency to avoid it. In particular, it was found that among people with high self-esteem there are more people who are unstable to stress than among people with adequate self-esteem. An athlete is always afraid of getting physically injured. What a shame it is to strain a tendon on the eve of a competition! But it is equally important to learn to avoid mental trauma. Indeed, in difficult conditions, it is not individual organs or systems of the body that participate in the implementation of activity, but the entire organism as a whole, although any of the systems may be subject to a predominant load. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account that the biological structures of the individual, as the personality develops, are increasingly transformed and, at the level of the developed personality, become subject to it. In a mature and developed personality, the biological functions of the body largely depend on psychological determinants. Psychologists emphasize “the subtle adaptability of the body to various emotional situations; Thus, vegetative, somatic and behavioral reactions during fear are completely different depending on whether the opportunity to avoid danger is real or not.” In sports psychology, there is data according to which “biological functions during competitions occur under the strong influence of mental factors.” But mental factors act, firstly, individually, and secondly, selectively. The autonomic nervous system, responsible for the internal functions of the body, is practically uncontrolled by consciousness. Therefore, in people with a strong, balanced and mobile - sanguine temperament - in an extreme situation, “lion stress” occurs. It turns out that the more complex the situation, the more optimally, rationally and reliably such an individual acts. Here he is at the start, flushed, with eyes shining with excitement. At this time, a large amount of adrenaline, a hormone that stimulates motor activity, enters his blood. the hormone will help him give his all and show a higher result than in quiet training work, without a large number of spectators and strict judges. And the louder the roar of the stands, the more confident such an athlete feels. Danger, as it were, spurs such a person on, forces him to act boldly, confidently, decisively. Napoleon wrote this about one of his marshals: “Ney had mental insights only among the cannonballs, in the thunder of battle; there his eye, his composure and energy were incomparable, but he did not know how to prepare his operations in the same way.” quiet office, studying the map.” But next to our hero stands his friend, who surprised everyone with his high results during training. But something is very pale, he is worried and flinches when shouting from the stands. He also wants to be first and set a record, but he has a weak nervous system and acetylcholine is released in his blood - a hormone with an effect opposite to that of adrenaline. Therefore, under the same extreme situation, a person with a weak nervous system has a completely opposite reaction - “rabbit stress” - disorganization of activity, a sharp drop in its effectiveness, passivity and general inhibition. Moreover, for a particular athlete, “bunny stress” can always
manifest themselves differently. For two false starts, he can simply be removed from the competition, he stumbles and falls, poorly tied shoes with spikes fall off, etc. After an unsuccessful finish, such an unlucky athlete, explaining his defeat, will each time find different reasons: a sudden upset stomach (called “bear sickness” - a direct consequence of stress), an old injury suddenly hurt, he started the distance too quickly and did not have the strength to finish, etc. .d. Other losers in such cases always blame their opponents - they are the ones who are bullied at the start, hit in the liver with an elbow, pushed over the edge, etc. It is interesting that if such incidents happen to a person who is confident in his abilities, then, say, a blow to the liver can only anger him and become a new incentive for a brilliant victory. Therefore, the same property of temperament - for example, anxiety (which is understood as a person’s tendency to exaggerate the physical or social danger of a situation and at the same time experience negative emotional states - fear, anxiety, worry, etc.) does not manifest itself in the same way in different people. This personality trait largely determines the intensity of the anxiety reaction in athletes on the eve of important competitions. But the whole point is that without this very anxiety there is no way to show a higher result in competitions than in training. The anxiety reaction should therefore be considered as a natural process of the body's adaptation to a stressful situation. To a certain extent, the intensity of this reaction is positive, and only excessive anxiety is undesirable and leads to deterioration in performance. Anxiety serves as a trigger for the manifestation of activity in overcoming external and internal obstacles on the way to achieving a set goal. Anxiety and excitability within varying limits contribute to the emergence of a state of mobilization, mental readiness for activity in stressful conditions, and improvement of its effectiveness.
What is important for us is not that people with a strong nervous system (and this is an innate property given to man by God) are capable of high results. These people by nature are destined for the role of winners. It is much more interesting that among very high-class athletes there are people with weakness, imbalance, inertia.
tew nervous processes, overly excitable and mentally unstable. But even such properties of the nervous system and temperament do not prevent them from achieving outstanding success in sports. This is largely facilitated by the formation of an individual style of activity, which is understood as a set of techniques and methods of activity and forms of response, determined by the typological properties of the nervous system, that allow one to achieve success in its implementation. Individual style of activity is one of the significant aspects of self-actualization - something that every person should strive for. The formation of an individual style of activity primarily occurs not through overcoming or correcting the negative aspects of temperament and properties of the nervous system, but through the effective use of their positive aspects for a given activity. Thus, the reliability of an athlete in the extreme conditions of major competitions depends not only on whether he has a strong or weak type of nervous activity, but also on how much control he has over his psyche. After all, almost any person, with proper preparation and training, has the ability to self-regulate at involuntary and voluntary levels immediately before a performance. Involuntary regulation of the pre-launch state is carried out through the implementation of certain programs, automated during the preparation process.
Conscious regulation of the pre-start state is based on the athlete’s developed ability to control its manifestations and causes, purposefully create image-representations, concentrate and switch attention to any objects, distract from the influence of negative psychogenic factors and stimuli, use verbal formulations and special techniques for. effects on muscle condition, autonomic functions and emotional arousal. Conscious regulation of the mental state can help increase the reliability of an athlete only with the daily use of a system of psychoregulatory influences (autogenic, psychoregulatory training).
So, practice shows that under the same conditions different individuals react differently, and these differences relate to both the degree of exposure to influences and the type of observed effects. So, some people note you
high resistance to stress and activity in extreme conditions, while others have low resistance. At the same time, for some, under extreme conditions, the activity improves (sometimes quite significantly, while for others it worsens to the point of failure).
This means that we can talk about two types of states associated with activity in an extreme situation: tension, which has a positive mobilizing effect on activity, and tension, which is characterized by a decrease in the stability of mental and motor functions up to the disintegration of activity.
What does the occurrence of this or that state depend on? Largely from a subjective assessment of the degree of importance, significance of a tago or other event for a particular individual. This can be called an assessment of a potential threat. According to data obtained by psychologists, a threat is a person’s anticipation of the possible negative consequences of the situation affecting him. This assumption was tested in experiments in which subjects were shown the same movie depicting accidents at a sawmill. In the first version of the experiments, subjects were simply told that the film would show accidents at a sawmill; in the second - that events are not real, but are only imitated by actors; finally, in the third case, the experimenters sought to divert the subjects’ attention from difficult episodes in the film: the audience was asked to impartially observe, for example, how clearly and convincingly the master sets out safety rules for workers. Based on the data obtained, it was concluded that in the first case, the majority of viewers experienced clearly expressed stress reactions, in the second, stress did not arise, since the events in the film were considered harmless. As for the third version of the film, if the subjects interpreted these events as dangerous and thus did not take an impartial observer position, then a stressful state arose.
The psychological specificity of states of tension, therefore, depends not on external influences, although they must be strong enough for a person, but also on the personal meaning of the purpose of the activity, assessment of the situation in which he finds himself, etc. To solve the problems arising here, the developed psi
chologists questions about the strength of motives, their hierarchy, the types of such hierarchies, the effectiveness of potential and actual motives, their awareness and unconsciousness, the dependence of the implementation of motives on time, on the distance to the goal, on the intensity of needs, on the adequacy of ways to achieve the goal, age characteristics, etc. .
However, it remains unclear to what extent the patterns established for normal conditions are preserved in difficult situations. Indeed, in situations that create a threat, all motivational processes come into play and the implementation of one of them will depend not only on its strength, place in the hierarchy, etc., but also on various situational factors, the degree of danger, etc. Thus, a person who knows that running away in conditions of physical danger is unworthy of a “real man” may, when attacked by hooligans, flee for his life, because at this moment maintaining health is more important than maintaining a good opinion of himself.
Everyone knows that in difficult conditions in a critical situation, the dynamic side (tempo, energy, intensity) of activity and behavior becomes extremely important, since it directly determines the effectiveness and reliability of a person. This means that the innate dynamic characteristics of the course of mental reactions in extreme conditions have a decisive impact on the final effectiveness of human actions. Of course, the strength of the nervous system plays an important role in the dynamics of mental states. The strength of the nervous system is a physiological prerequisite for human reliability. This factor has always been taken into account in professional selection and career guidance. Therefore, to work as an air traffic controller, pilot (and other professions that require instantaneous making of the right decision in an extreme situation), people with a strong, balanced and mobile nervous system have always been selected. This means that natural characteristics of a person limit a person’s capabilities. It is in a critical situation that their functioning can become decisive and affect the process of activity as a whole. The fact is that there are general and individual limits to the permissible intensities of biological processes, within the framework of which various kinds of biological changes occur, accompanied by the mobilization of the body’s reserves and its adaptation to the influencing stimuli. At-
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approaching these limits or exceeding them leads to various pathological changes, which are sometimes even irreversible.
The question is, can a person, not in extreme, but in the most ordinary conditions, go beyond the limits of his biological capabilities? Many amazing facts that science is not yet able to explain prove that human capabilities are truly limitless. This can only be understood through the unity and interconnection of a person’s natural properties with his properties as a person. And a person, as already mentioned, can be described not only as a biological individual, but also as a limitless field of consciousness that has unlimited experiential access to various aspects of reality without the mediation of the senses. Thus, the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” (1996, No. 44) wrote about a 56-year-old strongman from the city of Serpukhov - Anatoly Ivanovich Amodumov. Anatoly Ivanovich is short and strong, but not Stallone. If you meet him on the street, you won’t turn around. It lifts 6.5 tons from the ground. It is in principle impossible to explain how he does this, based on data from physiology, anatomy, physics, chemistry and other sciences. The limit of human biological capabilities (meaning a super strongman weighing 150 kg) cannot exceed 1.5 tons.
One day Samodumov came across Vladimir Shaposhnikov’s book “Iron Samson” - about Russian strongmen. After reading it, he was surprised that all the “heroes” stopped at 60 poods (about one thousand three hundred kilograms) in their achievements. “Why not more?” - Anatoly thought and began to solve the riddle, based on his own experience. And I also stopped at this point. When I lifted three hundred tons, it seemed that I could add another couple hundred kilograms. But he added fifty, and the bar seemed to grow into the ground. However, the training continued, and eventually the bar gave way. After this, Samodumov remained in euphoria for a month and a half. “It was an idiotic state,” he recalls. “I was absolutely happy, satisfied with everything, although I understood that from the outside I looked abnormal. When this state passed, I began to realize that in this way you can achieve a lot and get into an area hitherto unknown.”
How does Samodumov himself explain his phenomenal
results? According to him, it’s not about pumped up muscles and monstrous physical strength.
“Besides gravity, there are a lot of other phenomena in the world that we knew nothing about before and which we are just beginning to comprehend,” he says. - For example, there is an internal energy state of every living being or object. It is important to learn how to manage this state of vie. Doctors have found that if a person lifts weights, it has a beneficial effect on him: the body becomes healthier very quickly. When we lift a barbell, all our capabilities are included in the work. The energy capacity of each cell is being rebuilt. Our activities are as natural a need as eating, drinking and sleeping.
The problem with yoga and all martial arts is that... develop some centers in a person, but suppress others. Development is one-sided. We achieve harmony - this is the uniqueness of the methodology. And all our records are just the effect of self-improvement classes.”
Anatoly Ivanovich does not declare his method as a panacea for all diseases. He only cites the facts - the fifty-four-year-old patient had a purely female pathology. Doctors forbade her to carry more than five kilograms, otherwise; - intensive care unit. A very complicated operation was imminent. After six months of training in the section, this woman lifted eight centners, the need for surgery disappeared. Almost all the diseases that I tried to treat using my technique disappeared,” says Samodumov. - “Side effect” - weight loss, rejuvenation and general strengthening of the body. People who work with me stop getting sick. Even a cold, from which it is very difficult to protect yourself, occurs very easily and quickly for them... But do not immediately try to grab heavy weights to get rid of sores. Nothing will work out. It might get worse. Here, as in studies, training is based on the “teacher-student” principle. This is very important, because, according to Anatoly Ivanovich’s shackles, for the first time it is he who “charges a person with energy drawn from the Cosmos.” Without her, all classes are in vain.”
It is curious that Anatoly Ivanovich deals only with girls. He believes that girls are more open, more trusting, and more disciplined. Men question everything, they need to analyze and sort everything into categories, and trust is out of the question. In addition, the stronger sex very easily squanders hard-earned potential.
This means that a person not only in extreme conditions, but also in ordinary ones, when it is necessary to do something beyond the limits of human capabilities, can draw additional energy from an as yet unknown source. The receipt of additional energy can explain not only this, but also many other unusual results. How, for example, can a karateka break 10 concrete blocks stacked one on top of the other with his bare hand? Even if we assume that his bones and muscles are stronger than steel, this is still impossible in principle, since the power of a heavy artillery shell is needed to perform such work. Or, like a karateka extinguishing a candle behind thick glass with a wave of his hand? Moreover, sometimes such phenomenal capabilities manifest themselves in the most ordinary people who find themselves in a critical situation. After all, facts are very stubborn things.
One day, in front of one woman’s eyes, a wall collapsed on her 15-year-old son. The guy was crushed under a very heavy slab. There was no need to wait for salvation, there was no one in sight, and he was doomed. But the fragile woman did not think about the fact that only a crane could lift a slab weighing about three tons. She thought only about saving her only son and knew that no one else would do this except her. Therefore, she was able to jerk this slab and pull out her son. More well-known examples can be given. Thus, the famous yogi Sri Chen Moy, in front of numerous spectators, lifted a weight of 2 tons from the mief and above his head. From history, we can recall how 14-year-old American Lulu Hearst in 1885, standing on scales in the circus arena, lifted a chair over her head with a man sitting on it weighing 80 kg. The most surprising thing is that the scales only showed her weight. The weight lifted by an unknown force decreased to 0. Obviously, only under some exceptional conditions does a person acquire such incredible strength and acquire new, previously unprecedented capabilities. Conventionally, psychologists call these phenomena special mental states. These special conditions arise, as a rule, in extreme or, more precisely, borderline situations. These are situations of individual existence in which the individual’s self-awareness is heightened and a person involuntarily recognizes himself. More precisely, he learns something new about his essential strengths and capabilities.
According to K. Jaspers, borderline situations arise exclusively in the face of death, unrequited love or trials with an unpredictable outcome. Borderline situations encourage a person to rely on his essential strengths and serve as an important source of personal self-development. Borderline states do not have a continuous existence; they seem to intersperse into our everyday experience. Being in such a state, a person acts contrary to everything, regardless of common sense and in spite of everything. Many real facts prove the validity of this purely philosophical abstraction: for example, a person rushes to the aid of another, not only risking his life, but often without imagining whether it is even possible to save him. A man defends his dignity and masculine honor, knowing that no one will ever know about it.
Imagine that you are walking along the Voroshilovsky Bridge and before your eyes a five-year-old child hangs over the railing and quickly falls down. What to do in such a situation? All men are divided into two categories: some, without thinking about anything, jump from the bridge into the water, while others, frantically clutching the railing, are intensely thinking about something. But there is something to think about. Does it even make sense to take risks and jump down if the child has already crashed into the water and drowned? What if there are iron piles or concrete blocks sticking out of the water in this place? What if a barge comes in from the other side and I jump right onto the iron deck? Finally, it wouldn’t hurt to take off your expensive leather jacket, etc. and so on. It is clear that after such a comprehensive analysis of the current situation there will be no one to save. But on the other hand, how can a reasonable person commit reckless acts?
Some guy can boast a lot about his “coolness” and courage, but he will never go unarmed against a crowd of twenty people. After all, this is recklessness - the forces are too unequal. But why does the other person (who falls into the “real man” category) never come up with these reasonable arguments, and he, with burning eyes, runs into a crowd of twenty people? Paradoxically, such recklessness often leads to a landslide victory. There is something in the madness of the brave that puts to flight a stronger and more numerous enemy.
Masculinity is always irrational and paradoxical. Sometimes a person realizes that the action he is performing
He is not only dumb, but also senseless, but in principle he cannot do otherwise, he cannot restrain himself. Sometimes the concept of “masculinity” is wrongfully replaced by the concepts of “ideological conviction”, “moral maturity”, “moral choice in an extreme situation”, etc. But this is not entirely true, since moral choice is still controlled by consciousness, as is devotion to any ideas or ideals. And masculinity is not controlled by consciousness, logic and common sense.
In the old film about the joint military operations of Soviet and French pilots "Normandy-Niemen" one real episode is shown. One French pilot had to fly the plane to another airfield. He put a Russian mechanic in the bomb bay without a parachute. But when he took off, the pilot lost control as a result of some kind of accident. A critical situation has arisen when he cannot land the plane, nor can the mechanic help. He reports this to the ground, and he is ordered to eject. But to do so means to violate the code of a real man (“perish yourself, but help a comrade." But in this situation he is not only a man with thoughts and feelings, but also a combat unit that needs to be preserved in order to be used for its intended purpose in the next battle. He is strictly ordered to eject, but he cannot help himself .The internal code of male honor turns out to be higher than orders and even the desire to live.Finally, the mechanic on the internal intercom begs him to jump, but it explodes along with the plane.
What is the reason for such actions, if we discard all considerations of prudence and common sense? But they are not without reason (moreover, a person in such situations assures that he could not have acted differently). To say that the reason for these actions is irrational and existential means to raise the question about the nature of these reasons. Borderline states, therefore, for psychologists are a kind of “window” into a special dimension of human life - into that “existential space”, the laws of which act on a person as inexorably (it is impossible to do otherwise) as physical laws. External reasons for the reckless behavior of a person in a borderline state can be very different - religious fanaticism, political beliefs, patriotism,
just generally accepted “coolness”, but inside the same reason is at work - masculinity. It is the formed masculinity, like a tightly compressed spring (like a constantly cocked trigger), in a critical situation that instantly straightens, pushing out (or rather shooting) a man, throwing him into battle against the whole world. The moment of the “shot” cannot, in principle, be realized and critically comprehended. A person will be burned at the stake, and he, without feeling pain, will enthusiastically shout: “Glorified is the Lord!” Such masculinity has always been “like a bone in the throat” of the powerful, accustomed to doing business with obedient loyal subjects. Over the centuries, many have tried to break a courageous man, to force him to change his previous position. But even if a mountain comes at a real knight, he, putting his spear forward, will continue to shout loudly that there is no lady more beautiful and worthy than his beloved.
The Holy Inquisition operated in Europe for 300 years. What did the inquisitive thoughts of “creatively minded” inquisitors wrestle with over the centuries? How to come up with such torment, torture, such a sophisticated method of execution for a person to force him to renounce his previous (heretical) views, change his beliefs and principles. Find a way to confuse a person in such a way as to break his masculinity. Not just to make it very painful, but to split a person’s consciousness like a “rotten nut.” But it turned out that there is no such MjrKH, such torture that a courageous man, convinced that he is right, could not endure. We respect Archpriest Avvakum not for his views (views can be stupid and crazy; just like Dulcinea of the ideal knight Don Quixote, a poser can turn out to be a fat, pockmarked and stupid girl), but for his courage in defending his position.
At the end of the 20th century, it would seem that they found a way to break any person, no matter how courage he possessed. We are talking about a psychotropic weapon, with the help of which specially encoded information, freely passing through the filters of consciousness, invades the subconscious and subjugates a person to someone else’s will. I don’t want to believe in this, because the spread of these weapons can kill the main thing in humanity: masculinity. It seems that this weapon can not subdue, but simply kill a courageous man. Killing is always much easier.
The author believes that true masculinity, as the core of personality, permeates not only the consciousness, but also the subconscious of a person, determining his behavior in almost any situation. I would like to tell you a story that I heard from my late grandfather many years ago. Now it is not possible to verify the authenticity of individual details of this story, but the principle itself is more important. The bottom line is this: in 1942 in Ukraine, the head of one of the regional Gestapo offices was a psychologist by training. Even before the war, in his works he wrote about man as “an animal covered with a thin film of civilization.” And since a person is essentially an animal, then such phenomena as honor, conscience, nobility, courage are all husks, empty words of morality that very quickly fly away from any person, as soon as he puts a few needles under his nails. The main thing is to be able to drive them deeper. In peacetime, he did not have the opportunity to test his views in practice, but during the war such an opportunity presented itself. Only those prisoners who had already proven themselves to be a “tough nut to crack” were selected for the experiment. As a rule, they turned out to be Red commanders, political instructors, former athletes and simply ordinary communists and patriots. The man was put in a sealed leather bag with a weight at his feet and thrown to the bottom of a deep and cold river. The bag was on a long rope, by which it could always be lifted to the surface. And a thin rope was wound around the man’s fist, passing through the neck of the bag to the surface. Imagine yourself sitting in this leather bag for 30 seconds, feel the hopelessness of the situation, feel the cold water pressing on your ears. These seconds pass very quickly, and all that remains is the crazy hope of breathing one more time, of living a little longer. Here a weak person can pull the string. The bell will ring and the bag will quickly be pulled to the surface. But our “psychologist’s” attitude was not designed for this primitive animal fear. His was thinner; a vile, as it seemed to him, scientifically based and insidious calculation. After all, when the last breath of air is spent, consciousness turns off. And when consciousness turns off, then all the attitudes developed by consciousness disappear - communist ideas, patriotism, sacred hatred of enemies, religious principles and everything else. What remains? Only animal instincts, and among them the most important is self-preservation. The bet was placed on this short period of time, when consciousness has switched off, but the body itself is still alive and can act. The dying brain sends the last signal, and the hand, against all the person’s previous beliefs, itself pulls the string. The bag containing the semi-conscious person is immediately pulled to the surface.
He immediately receives a glass of schnapps for warmth and for courage, he is dressed in a warm police uniform, given a carbine (without cartridges to begin with) and forced to participate in a mass execution in this uniform in front of everyone. You can also take a photograph of him against the background of a gallows with hanged men and give him this photograph with a dedicatory inscription from the boss himself as a souvenir. An enlightened Gestapo man wanted to put this case on the conveyor belt - you put a political officer in a bag, and you pull out a policeman. But the experiment failed. Out of hundreds of people executed, only 2 or 3 were weak and pulled the rope. But after a while they themselves committed suicide, since they could not walk on their native soil in the role of a traitor. In fact, the experiment did not fail, but confirmed once again that genuine masculinity not only permeates the entire conscious structure of the personality, but also captures the area of the subconscious (and perhaps the area of the unconscious, where masculinity is fixed at the level of archetypes). My grandfather also said that a report was drawn up based on the materials of the experiment and sent to headquarters. Based on this report, appropriate decisions were made. In particular, since the end of 1944, communists were no longer tortured, since a corresponding badge was placed in the personal files of prisoners, indicating that this person was a convinced communist (in the context of the problem under consideration, this meant a real man) and applying torture to him was a waste of time. Therefore, such a person is subject only to immediate destruction.
From everything we can draw one conclusion: true masculinity is not subject to all considerations of prudence and common sense. In the situation of “being a man in the face of death,” a person must throw aside all the arguments generated by modern life and act in accordance with some ancient motivational programs. It was these ancient programs that constantly pushed
men (even against their will) at the forefront of the evolutionary process.
Let's imagine that the people who suffocated in the bag somehow remained alive. How would the experienced existential state affect their personality? Would they come out of the bag the same or would there be some kind of transformation?
Practice shows that experiencing borderline states leads to a “conversion” of the individual. The person himself begins to feel different, changed. Something is revealed to him that does not allow him to lead the same way of life; he really thinks, feels and understands differently. The basic reasons for a person’s basic actions become the state discovered and experienced by him in existential experience, and not the usual motives determined by the environment. This means that the existential state experienced by a person (the reasons for which are usually hidden from us) itself becomes the cause of subsequent events.
It is important to emphasize that the influence of the social on biological processes in states of tension is carried out primarily through mental, in particular motivational and emotional components of activity, their specific content. Along with the examples just given, this can also be confirmed by works in the field of prevention and overcoming the negative effects of mental tension, which show the possibility of conscious regulation of certain vegetative processes, which leads to an increase in the functional capabilities of the physiological systems of a disabled person, their compensation and, on this basis, an increase in resistance to influencing stimulation. Moreover, we can say that under certain conditions a person can restrain the manifestations of his bodily being at their greatest tension, as if suppressing them and to a certain extent go beyond the limits of biological laws.
This means that the effect of a stressor is not limited only to its specific action, but is also determined by the psychological characteristics of a person. Thus, immediate danger to life, severe pain, which are recognized as effective stressors, may not be so in connection with the performance of a certain role or, for example, in connection with religious or ideological motives. Psychology of race
11. The burning school believes that there is a large number of studies indicating this. that the motivational, intellectual and other psychological characteristics of a person, his life experience, amount of knowledge, etc. significantly correct the influence of the objective properties of the stimulus. For example, in studies of the mental states of parachutists, it has been repeatedly shown that the degree of fear before a jump is positively correlated with a lack of self-confidence and lack of experience, in particular the ability to fight against the wind during a jump.
Even more striking confirmation is the data obtained by American psychologists. The study was conducted on recruited soldiers. Situations of a “crash” and forced landing of an aircraft were simulated. The subjects were in a twin-engine military aircraft DS-Z. Each of the passengers had a connection via headphones to the cockpit.
Before boarding, each participant in the experiment was given a brochure with instructions for 10 minutes to study - a list of necessary actions in the event of a possible disaster. In addition, as required by the regulations of the Air Force, each participant in the flight, under the control of the aircraft commander, put on a life belt and a parachute. Somewhere at an altitude of 5,000 feet, the plane, gaining altitude, began to roll. All subjects saw that one of the propellers had stopped rotating, and through headphones they learned about other problems. They were then told directly that a critical situation had arisen. The subjects, as if by chance, hear through headphones an alarming conversation between the pilot and a ground observation post, which leaves no doubt about the reality of the situation. Since the plane was flying near the airfield, the subjects could see trucks and ambulances arriving on the runway, i.e. that on the ground they clearly suspect a crash and are preparing to provide assistance. A few minutes later there was an order to prepare for splashdown in the open ocean due to the failure of the landing gear. After some time, the plane landed safely at the airfield. In general, the experimental situation was perceived as real, strong emotional experiences were observed associated with the fear of death or injury (“numb with horror”), etc. However, some of the subjects did not notice these phenomena: some of them had extensive flying experience and were able to determine the simulated nature of the danger, while others were confident in their ability to survive the “impending catastrophe” and overcome it.
This gives reason to believe that the main role in the emergence of a threat belongs not so much to the objective danger and objective opportunities to resist this danger, but to how a person perceives the situation, assesses his capabilities, i.e. subjective factor. If a person believes in himself, in his capabilities, he can handle the most difficult and extreme situations.
Incredible human abilities (Video)
The human body has a large reserve of capabilities. It has been established that the human spine in extreme conditions can withstand a load of ten tons! The reserve of safety that Nature has endowed a person is used extremely rarely, once or twice in his entire life, and sometimes this reserve may be completely unclaimed. Safety margin is a guarantee of human survival, biological protection, and is used only when it comes to life and death. Fear and a sense of self-preservation in extreme situations “allows” the human body to fully use this reserve, but most people use their emergency reserve extremely rarely.
But having used the entire reserve of his capabilities at least once, a person then throughout his life never ceases to be amazed at how he managed to do it. Being in mortal danger, when the threat to life is colossal, and death seems inevitable, the human body is capable of performing miracles. There are many examples of this.
There was a car accident on a winter road that resulted in casualties. To save her injured forty-year-old son, a seventy-year-old woman put him on her back and walked thirteen kilometers through deep snow with such a burden, never stopping or lowering her precious burden. When rescuers on a snowmobile got to the scene of the accident, following the woman’s tracks, they saw only her footprints all along the way.
St. Petersburg - a 2-year-old child fell from a seventh-floor window, his mother barely managed to grab her baby with one hand; With her other hand she grabbed the brick of the cornice. At the same time, she did not hold on with the whole hand, but only with the index and middle fingers, but with a “death grip”. When the woman was removed, the rescuers had to make great efforts to unclench her fingers. Afterwards, for several more hours they calmed down and persuaded the woman to let go of her child’s hand.
A rather elderly man, when an angry bull began to chase him, literally flew over a 2-meter fence, although he had never been an athlete.
The polar pilot was repairing his plane and suddenly saw a polar bear behind him, who lightly pushed the pilot on the shoulder with its paw, as if inviting him to look back. The next moment, the pilot found himself standing on the wing of an airplane located at a height of about two meters above the surface of the earth. Later, the pilot could not explain how he did it.
A child is under the wheels of a car, and his mother, in order to save the baby, lifts the car as if the car had no weight.
During the flight, a bolt got under the pedal in the cockpit and jammed the control. To save his life and the plane, the pilot pressed the pedal so hard that he cut off the bolt like a blade of grass.
The Nedelya newspaper published an interview with pilot I.M. Chisov, whose plane was shot down by a Messerschmitt during an air battle in January 1942 over Vyazma. “...the plane began to fall belly up. I had to leave the car. The astro hatch through which you can get out was below my head (and I myself was upside down). Well, the altitude began to take its toll: the hoses leading to the oxygen apparatus were broken. And the hatch cover latch got jammed!
If someone had told me earlier that the astro hatch could be knocked out with a blow of a fist, I would never have believed it; but I discovered it in just this way (I still don’t understand how I did it), - said I.M. Chisov.
There was a fire in the house, and the old woman, “God’s dandelion,” saving her lifelong possessions, dragged a huge chest from the second floor of the burning house. After the fire was extinguished, two young, healthy guys hardly carried this chest to its original place.
1997 - two fairly tipsy Belarusians climbed into an enclosure with bison in Belovezhskaya Pushcha; they wanted to pet the bison. Either she didn’t like the alcoholic smell, or she wasn’t in the mood for a lyrical wave, she didn’t accept the tenderness of her fans. Literally after a few minutes of their acquaintance, one of them was sitting on the fence, and the other, less agile, was slightly touched by a horn. The hop passed away instantly; all hope was left on my feet. He found himself on the other side of the 3-meter fence in the blink of an eye. And because there were no witnesses to their record, the super-fast running and jumping over an obstacle were not included in the Guinness Book of Records.
1998 - the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” talked about an incident that happened to a carpenter from the taiga village of Bazhenovka, Kemerovo region. A carpenter was walking through the taiga and came across a sleeping bear. His fear was so great that he grabbed a log lying nearby and rushed with it about three kilometers to his home. Only in the courtyard of the house did the carpenter throw down the log and catch his breath. Later, when he wanted to remove this log from the yard, he could not even lift it. To this day, the carpenter cannot understand why he needed this log, because without it he could have run much faster.
A person’s hidden capabilities are revealed not only in a stressful situation. But also as a result of long-term training, for example, among athletes. Previously, athletes could not even imagine that they could reach a height of 2 m 35 cm, that they could jump 8 m 90 cm in length, that they could lift a 500 kg barbell in three movements: snatch, clean and jerk, press. 1985, August - 23-year-old track and field athlete from Kiev Rudolf Povarnitsyn cleared the 240 cm bar in the high jump.
And literally a few days later, another athlete Igor Paklin conquered a height of 241 cm. The javelin throwers overcame the 95-meter mark. 2005, June - 22-year-old Jamaican runner Asafa Powell set a new world record in the 100 meters - 9.77 seconds. Now athletes dream of jumping in height over 241 cm, long jumping 9 m, and lifting half a ton in two movements. Over the course of their entire lives, most mortals will never take advantage of their hidden capabilities, but each of us is pleased to know that somewhere deep within you lie enormous forces, that you have a colossal memory, which in a moment of mortal danger can save your life.
Man is an incomprehensible creature. It happens that he lives an average life, but then some event happens that greatly shakes him up, and everything changes. A person exhibits certain superpowers. Today, many examples have been recorded that show human capabilities that can manifest themselves in extreme conditions or in some congenital diseases. Of course, these abilities can be developed independently. We will talk about all this in this article.
What are human superpowers?
There are quite a few abilities that can be classified as “super”. Moreover, they are not available to most people. So, what can be classified into this category:
- Clairvoyance. This ability involves seeing what is impossible for the normal human eye.
- Telepathy. The ability to hear or see the thoughts of another person.
- Clairsentience. With the help of this ability, a person can read information from the general information field not only of our planet, but of the entire Universe. This also includes developed intuition.
- Clarity of smell. A person who has this ability can acutely sense all odors, and people can gain not only the ability of acute smell, but also perfect taste.
- Claircognizance. This ability is a bit like clairvoyance, but clairvoyance involves clear knowledge that simply pops into your head when you need it. Knowledge can absolutely anyone.
- Psychometry. An interesting ability that involves the ability to find out information about a person from a photograph or read it from any objects.
- Telekinesis. Using thoughts, moving any objects.
Of course, these are not all the superpowers that a person can have. Some can receive, others have phenomenal memory or the ability to perform complex calculations in their heads. Although some scientists do not consider these abilities impossible at all, because in their opinion, in the distant past, every person possessed them.
Ancient civilizations that have sunk into oblivion reached their heights thanks to special human capabilities. And now some part of our brain is simply sleeping and only through training can it be awakened and made to work at 100%.
Can a person develop superpowers?
Then you can continue to work independently and learn visualization. At this stage, you will be able to gain control over your senses, learn to sense the world not only through ordinary organs, but also through supersenses. Only after this can you begin to train a specific human superpower. There are quite a lot of exercises for raising potential, so you should choose the one that is most suitable for a beginner.
However, the easiest way is to find an experienced teacher for yourself. He will be able to correctly reveal your abilities, and also protect your path from some mistakes that are possible if learning occurs on your own. He will also be able to see the negative programs that already exist on your subtle body and help you get rid of them (and this is important for further spiritual development).
It should be noted that many people had their superpowers suppressed in childhood by adults who simply did not know how to develop this child's gift. Today it is recommended to take a close look at the growing little man and contribute in every possible way to his development, since such abilities will help him become a full-fledged person in the future.
Extreme conditions and superpowers
There are many recorded cases of people developing superpowers after some tragic accident or under extreme conditions. After that, they either remain or disappear. For example, a case was recorded when a pilot, after an accident, was able to survive in the tundra with broken legs, and his body temperature dropped to 33.2 degrees.
There were also cases when a person survived after being hit by lightning, strong radiation, or, gaining great strength, in a fight with a strong animal or element. It is believed that in such cases the human body and brain turn on at full capacity, thus performing previously impossible actions.
Many people who found themselves in a critical situation spoke afterwards about a certain slowdown or stretching of time, which made it possible to escape from danger. We can say that a person is quite capable of controlling the space-time continuum, but, unfortunately, he cannot do this consciously. Perhaps all of humanity will have to make a lot more effort to learn to control our body and capabilities.
Vivid examples of people with superpowers
In the history of past centuries, as well as in modern history, there are many references to people who had various phenomenal and extrasensory abilities. Perhaps the most famous is the ancient predictor Nostradamus, who described many events of modernity and the recent past, as well as the Bulgarian predictor Vanga.
There are quite a few “uniques” in the scientific community, for example, Academician Ioffe kept all the tables of logarithms in his memory. Sergei Garibyan, our contemporary, during a scientific experiment revealed that he has a phenomenal memory, as he remembered more than a thousand sentences in various languages that he did not know at all.
As we see, human special abilities are not a myth at all, but something real. Of course, many ordinary people are skeptical about psychic abilities, but one cannot deny the fact that many people possess them and are also able to control them. For example, bioenergetics and psychics who are able to heal a person from physical and spiritual illnesses. It just takes a little persistence and desire to gain the ability, but not everyone has that.
According to rescue services in different countries, about 80% of people in moments of danger fall into a stupor, 10% begin to panic, and only the remaining 10% quickly pull themselves together and act to save themselves. See how a clear understanding of the situation and self-control help a person survive in any, even the wildest conditions.
A 17-year-old girl was one of the passengers on a plane that flew over the Peruvian jungle in 1971. The plane was hit by lightning and it fell apart in the air. Only 15 of the 92 passengers managed to survive the fall, but all except Julian were seriously injured and died before help arrived. She was the only one lucky - the tree crowns softened the blow, and, despite a broken collarbone and torn ligaments in her knee, the girl, fastened to the seat and who fell with him, remained alive. Juliane wandered through the thickets for 9 days, and she managed to reach the river along which a group of local hunters was sailing. They fed her, provided first aid and took her to the hospital. All the time she spent in the countryside, the girl was inspired by the example of her father, who was an experienced extreme sportsman and walked the path from Recife (Brazil) to Lima, the capital of Peru.
A British couple spent 117 days on the open ocean in 1973. The couple went on a trip on their yacht, and for several months everything was fine, but off the coast of New Zealand, the ship was attacked by a whale. The yacht received a hole and began to sink, but Maurice and Marilyn managed to escape on an inflatable raft, taking documents, canned food, a water container, knives and a few other necessary things that came to hand. The food ran out very quickly, and the couple ate plankton and raw fish - they caught it with homemade pin hooks. Almost four months later, they were picked up by North Korean fishermen - by that time both husband and wife were almost completely exhausted, so rescue came at the last minute. The Baileys traveled more than 2,000 km on their raft.
An 11-year-old boy showed an amazing example of endurance and self-control in an extreme situation. The light-engine plane, in which Norman's father and his girlfriend, the pilot, and Norman himself were, crashed into a mountain at an altitude of 2.6 km and crashed. The father and pilot died on the spot, the girl tried to go down the glacier and fell down. Fortunately, Ollestad Sr. was an experienced extreme sportsman and taught his son survival skills. Norman built some kind of skis found in the mountains and went down safely - it took about 9 hours. As an adult and writer, Norman Ollestad recounted the incident in his book Crazy for the Storm, which became a bestseller.
A traveler from Israel and his friend Kevin were rafting in Bolivia, and they washed up at a waterfall. Both survived the fall, but Kevin almost immediately managed to get ashore, and Yossi was carried down the river. As a result, the 21-year-old guy found himself alone in a wild forest far from civilization. One day he was attacked by a jaguar, but with the help of a torch the young man managed to drive away the beast. Yossi ate berries, bird eggs, and snails. At this time, a rescue group was looking for him, which Kevin assembled immediately after the incident - after 19 days the search was crowned with success. One of the stories on the popular Discovery Channel program “I Shouldn’t Have Survived” was dedicated to this incident.
In 1994, a police officer from Italy decided to take part in the Marathon des Sables, a six-day, 250-kilometer race in the Sahara Desert. Caught in a severe sandstorm, he lost direction and ended up getting lost. 39-year-old Mauro did not lose heart, but continued to move - he drank his own urine, and ate snakes and plants that he managed to find in the bed of a dry river. One day Mauro came across an abandoned Muslim shrine where there were bats - he began to catch them and drink their blood. After 5 days he was discovered by a family of nomads. As a result, Mauro Prosperi walked 300 km in 9 days, losing 18 kg during the journey.
The Australian lost almost half of his weight during forced wanderings through the deserts of the northern part of the continent. His car broke down, and he set off on foot to the nearest town, but did not know how far away or in what direction it was. He walked day after day, feeding on grasshoppers, frogs and leeches. Then Ricky built himself a shelter from branches and began to wait for help. Luckily for Ricky, it was the rainy season, so he didn't have much trouble getting drinking water. As a result, he was discovered by people from one of the cattle farms located in that area. They described him as a “walking skeleton” - before his adventure, Ricky weighed just over 100kg, and when he was sent to hospital, where he spent six days, his body weight was 48kg.
Two 34-year-old Frenchmen survived for seven weeks in the deepest part of Guiana in 2007, eating frogs, centipedes, turtles and tarantula spiders. The friends, lost in the forest, spent the first three weeks in place, building a shelter - they hoped that they would be found, but then they realized that the dense crowns of trees would not allow them to be seen from the air. Then the guys hit the road in search of the nearest housing. At the end of the journey, when, according to their calculations, there were no more than two days left to go, Gilem became very ill, and Luke went alone to bring help as quickly as possible. Indeed, he soon reached civilization and, together with the rescuers, returned to his partner - the adventure ended happily for both.
A tourist from France survived a fall from a height of about 20 meters, and then spent 11 days in the mountains in north-eastern Spain. A 62-year-old woman fell behind the group and got lost. She tried to go down, but fell into the ravine. She couldn't get out of there, so she had to spend almost two weeks in the wild waiting for help - she ate leaves and drank rainwater. On the 11th day, rescuers spotted a red T-shirt from a helicopter that Teresa had spread on the ground and rescued her.
A 29-year-old ship's cook from Nigeria spent almost three days underwater on a sunken ship. The tug was caught in a storm 30 kilometers from the coast, received severe damage and quickly sank - at that time Okene was in the hold. He groped his way through the compartments and discovered a so-called air bag - a “pocket” that was not filled with water. Harrison was wearing only shorts and was chest-deep in water - he was cold, but he could breathe, and that was the main thing. Harrison Okene prayed every second - the day before his wife sent him the text of one of the psalms via SMS, which he repeated to himself. There was not much oxygen in the air bag, but it was enough until the rescuers arrived, who could not reach the ship immediately due to the storm. The remaining 11 crew members were killed - Harrison Okene was the only survivor.
A 72-year-old Arizona woman survived in the wild for 9 days. On March 31, 2016, an elderly woman went to visit her grandchildren in a hybrid car, but it ran out of charge when she drove through completely deserted areas. Her phone had no network coverage, so she decided to climb higher to call the emergency services, but ended up getting lost. A dog and a cat were traveling with Ann - on April 3, the police, who were already searching, found a car and a cat sitting in it. On April 9, a dog was found along with the inscription “Help” lined with stones. Under one of them was a note from Anne dated April 3rd. On the same day, rescuers first found a makeshift shelter, and a little later, Ann herself.
The human body is created with a large reserve of capabilities. It has been established that the human spine under extreme conditions can withstand a load of 10 tons.
A person uses the reserve of safety endowed by Nature very rarely, once or twice in his entire life, and sometimes this reserve may turn out to be completely unclaimed. Safety margin is a guarantee of our survival, biological protection, and is used only when it comes to life and death.
Fear and a sense of self-preservation at the time of an extreme situation “allows” the human body to fully use this reserve, but most people resort to their emergency reserve quite rarely. But once a person has used the entire reserve of his capabilities, then for the rest of his life he never ceases to be amazed at how he managed to do it.
In the face of mortal danger, when the threat to life is colossal and death seems inevitable, the human body can work miracles. There are many examples of this.
An elderly man, when he was chased by an angry bull, literally jumped over a two-meter fence, although in his youth he was not an athlete.
The polar pilot was repairing his plane and suddenly saw a polar bear behind him, who lightly pushed the pilot on the shoulder with its paw, as if inviting him to look back. In the next fractions of a second, the pilot was already standing on the wing of the plane, located above the surface of the earth at a height of about two meters. Later, the pilot could not explain how he managed to do this.
A child is under the wheel of a car, and his mother, in order to save her child, lifts the car as if the car had no weight.
In St. Petersburg, a two-year-old child fell out of a 7th floor window; his mother barely managed to grab her child with one hand; with her other hand she held onto the brick of the cornice. Moreover, she did not hold it with her whole hand, but only with her index and middle fingers, but with a “death grip.” When the woman was removed, her rescuers, with great effort, barely unclenched her fingers. Then they spent several more hours calming down and persuading the woman to let go of her child’s hand.
There is a known case when, during a flight, a bolt got under the pedal in the cockpit of an airplane and the control jammed. To save his life and the car, the pilot pressed the pedal so hard that he cut off the bolt like a blade of grass.
The newspaper Nedelya published an interview with pilot I.M. Chisov, whose plane was shot down by a Messerschmitt in January 1942 over Vyazma. “...the plane began to fall belly up. I had to leave the car. The astro hatch, through which you can get out, turned out to be below my head (and I myself was upside down). Well, the altitude began to take its toll: the hoses leading to the oxygen devices were broken. And the hatch cover latch got jammed! If they had told me before that the astro hatch could be knocked out with a punch, I would never have believed it; but I discovered it in exactly this way (I still don’t understand how I did it), - said I.M. Chisov.
There was a fire in the house, and the old woman, “God’s dandelion,” saving her lifelong possessions, dragged a huge chest from the second floor of the burning house. After the fire, two young, healthy guys hardly carried this chest to its original place.
In 1997, two fairly tipsy Belarusians climbed into an enclosure with bison in Belovezhskaya Pushcha; they wanted to pet the bison. Either she didn’t like the smell of alcohol, or she wasn’t in the mood for a lyrical wave, she didn’t accept the tenderness of her fans. Literally after a few minutes of their acquaintance, one of them was sitting on the fence, and the second, less agile, was slightly touched by a horn. The drunkenness passed instantly, the only hope was for my feet. He found himself on the other side of the three-meter fence in the blink of an eye. Since there were no witnesses to their record, the super-fast running and jumping over an obstacle were not included in the Guinness Book of Records.
In 1998, the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” told readers about such a case that happened to a carpenter from the taiga village of Bazhenovka (Kemerovo region). A carpenter was walking through the taiga and came across a sleeping bear. His fear was so great that he grabbed a log lying nearby and ran with it as fast as he could to his home, three kilometers away. Only in the courtyard of the house did the carpenter throw down the log and catch his breath. Later, when he wanted to remove this log from the road, he could not even lift it. To this day, the carpenter cannot understand why he needed this log, because without it he could have run much faster.
There was an accident on a winter road that resulted in casualties. To save her injured 40-year-old son, a 70-year-old woman put him on her back and walked 13 km through deep snow with such a burden, never stopping or lowering her precious burden. When rescuers on a snowmobile made their way to the scene of the accident, following the woman’s footprints, all along the way they saw only the tracks of one pair of legs.
Human capabilities are revealed not only in stressful situations. But also as a result of long-term training, for example, among athletes. Previously, athletes did not even imagine that they could reach a height of 2 m 35 cm, that they could jump 8 m 90 cm in length, that they could lift a barbell of 500 kg in three movements: snatch, clean and jerk, bench press. In August 1985, 23-year-old athlete from Kyiv Rudolf Povarnitsyn cleared the 240 cm bar in the high jump. And literally a few days later, another athlete Igor Paklin conquered a height of 241 cm. The javelin throwers overcame the 95-meter mark. In June 2005, 22-year-old Jamaican runner Asafa Powell set a new world record in the 100-meter dash of 9.77 seconds. Now athletes dream of jumping in height over 241 cm, long jumping 9 m, and lifting half a ton in two movements.
Having lived their lives, most mortals never make use of their capabilities, but each of us is pleased to realize that somewhere deep within you lie enormous forces, that you have a colossal memory, which in a moment of mortal danger can save your life.
STRENGTH RECORDS
From time to time, weightlifters remind society of themselves with their original tricks with weights, setting records in the process. The press does not forget to tell its readers about this.
In the Basque Country (Spain), traditional weight lifting competitions are regularly held. In 1987, Inaki Perurena was recognized as the strongest among the Basques: he lifted a concrete block weighing 300 kg three times in a row.
At the end of the twentieth century, a teacher at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Captain Vyacheslav Khoronenko, made a serious claim about himself. At first, the athlete's favorite sports equipment was weights. Using weights of varying weights, he set many weight lifting achievements - more than 70 national records, more than 10 top world records. So, during the course of 24 hours he lifted a one-pound weight 18,108 times (almost 300 tons) - an absolute world record.
The athlete pushed a two-pound weight, sitting in a split, until he broke the record listed in the Guinness Book of Records - 55 times. Setting records on the platform was not enough for the weightlifter, and he, with a two-pound weight, sank to the bottom of the pool and, sitting in the splits, lifted the weight 21 times in 52 seconds - the time for which he managed to hold his breath. It could be argued that Archimedes' law applies underwater. Indeed, water makes the weight 7-8 kg lighter, but the conditions for lifting weights are not entirely suitable for humans.
V. Khoronenko soon got tired of weights. In addition, it turned out that in Europe weights are not taken seriously. There, spectators admire the lifting of weights, but some special kind of weights. For example, in Holland, athletes lift and throw boulders at a distance. The Belarusian strongman replaced the weights with a 40-kilogram keg of beer, and after some time set an absolute world record: within 24 hours he lifted the keg 3,150 times, for a total of 126 tons. At the same time, it was necessary to comply with strict conditions: rest only 5 minutes after every hour of lifting weights.
In 2000, Sergei Matskevich set a world record for lifting a one-pound weight for five hours - he jerked the weight 7030 times without a break.
In 2000, a Belarusian strongman from Bobruisk, 39-year-old Vladimir Savelyev, set a world record: over the course of 24 hours he lifted a 24-kilogram weight alternately with his right and left hands 19,275 times, which totaled 462 tons 600 kg. V. Savelyev is a biology teacher by profession, but outwardly does not look like a hero - height is 175 cm, weight is 100 kg.
In November 2000, 26-year-old Vahan Sargsyan, a former Armenian weightlifting champion, demonstrated a unique strength trick. First, Vagan stripped to the waist and then began piercing himself with stainless steel hooks. He inserted one hook into both hands, and hooked two hooks onto the skin of his chest. Assistants attached steel cables to the hooks, which were stretched to a minibus weighing 1,540 kg. It’s amazing that this short, frail man, weighing 65 kg, moved the car and dragged it a distance of about 8 meters!
Omar Khanapiev, a 30-year-old strength gymnast from Dagestan, set a record in 2001: he grabbed a cable with his teeth, moved a TU-134 plane and dragged it a distance of 7 meters. On November 7 of the same year, the strongman, in the same way, dragged railway locomotives weighing 136 and 140 tons, respectively, over a distance of 10 and 12 meters. And two days later, Khanapiev, in the port of Makhachkala, moved and dragged a tanker with a displacement of 567 tons through the water at a distance of 15 meters.
In 2002, 30 men and 8 women from 20 countries came to Malaysia to show off and flex their muscles. The audience had something to be surprised about. Dutchman Yamo Hams moved and pulled a 16-ton truck behind him. Canadian Hugo Girard picked up a set of weights with a total weight of 260 kg, lifted them and carried them around the stadium for several meters. Women were not inferior to men either; the weaker sex has proven that it is not weak. American Shannon Hartnett demonstrated the same as Hugo, but her weights were twice as light. Swede Anna Rosen lifted three trucks weighing three tons off the ground. Pole Mariusz Pudzinovsky wanted to repeat this act, but he could only lift a two-ton truck. And American Jill Mills ran around the stadium with an 80-kilogram shield.
In September 2003, forty-year-old Georges Christin from Luxembourg, nicknamed “Steel Teeth,” came to Yaroslavl with one goal - to set a new official record, 24 in a row. In his homeland, Christophen is quite a famous person: he lifted a table with a woman sitting on it with his teeth, dragged a 20-ton carriage with his teeth over a distance of 200 meters, lifted three sports planes with pilots, etc. In Yaroslavl, a Luxembourger moved and dragged with his teeth along the Volga at a distance of 10 meters, a 120-ton motor ship with passengers whose weight was 2830 kg.
In 2003, multiple kickboxing champion 29-year-old Nugzar Gograchadze dragged a train weighing 228 tons with his teeth over a distance of 4 meters. This is 70 cm and 5 tons more than the record recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Nowadays, Vasily Virastyuk is considered the most powerful person in Ukraine. His parameters: weight - 140 kg, height - 191 cm, chest volume - 142 cm, neck volume - 49 cm, biceps volume - 49 cm.
At the beginning of 2004 in Lvov, with a large crowd of people, he moved a couple of five tram cars and stretched them over a distance of 17.9 meters; each car weighed 20.3 tons. Then, practically without resting, the hero took a box-case with steel blanks in both hands, each box weighed 171 kg. Task: take these “suitcases” as far as possible. But at the 19th meter Virastyuk tripped - the load touched the ground. Angry at the failure with the “suitcases,” Virastyuk decided to move a road train of ten Mitsubishi-Karizma cars, each car weighing 1,600 kg. The strongman pulled this road train to a distance of 19.4 meters.