Sailing, rowing, tennis, jumping rope, riding a bike, running, playing chess, you name it.

All require you to perform something that doesn't seem physically possible. For example, if a tree was falling, it would first fall slowly and quietly. Then the tree would start to speed up and spin around until it was falling faster and faster in a straight line. It makes no sense, because for most things, gravity is working against you. If you run toward a cliff, you're only accelerating at a rate that's one-fifth of gravity, a speed of about one kilometer per hour - less than walking pace.

The laws of physics say nothing about what you can do when you apply the laws of the mind. No laws applied, no laws can break. No matter what happens in the "real world." The brain is the master control center of how you react to what you encounter. It influences everything, from where you look to whom you notice; from when you wake to deep sleep to whether your body is in danger from an attacker. You've noticed how the brain is capable of doing things that seem impossible. We do this by having what is called "mirror neurons."

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A mirror is a surface on which to copy things. When you see or perceive a person doing or being something, the brain makes a copy. We're all "mirror neurons," a term first used among neurologists in the early 1990s. That is what allows a pianist to play a note even if he or she just heard the note or a golfer to putt or swing a good club into the ball a short period of time before the shot.