(August 15, 2016 at 10:35 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Substitute "faith" with "training" and or "reflexes" and I'm there.
Muscle memory training/reflex, brain memory training/reflex (rote), religious training/reflex. With enough training actions can be taken without conscious thought. You don't think about taking a step/walking now because you have been training your brain since infancy and it has become more of a reflex than conscious effort. However, if you want to step on a particular random object it requires conscious thought because it is new.
Do you have this "faith" during an activity which is new to you, or not new but not practiced/trained either? I know I don't. I don't think most musicians, athletes or chess players would either.
Actually, I'd say that I have faith when I start learning a piece of music, and when it's well-practiced. In the middle stages, the song gets worse before it gets better. I see this as my conscious mind struggling with my unconscious mind.
I really have no control over almost any part of my musical performance at the end, except to enjoy listening, and to have a sense of how I want the music to feel.
As for very new activites-- I don't have any faith that I could do a 720 on a skateboard my first try, no. It is only with regard to things I can never consciously do, like achieve a certain mental state like the "zone," where I'd really talk about faith.
