Sport involves physical activity which is often rudimentary, unconscious
Sport is generally a physical activity that is sometimes exercised in the form of a game, performed with the physical body only. Sport involves only the physical body of the human being practising a particular sport.
Sport can be defined as a physical activity, organised or competitive, involving rules, and is practised primarily for the purpose of enjoyment, physical exercise, competition or the development of physical, bodily skills.
But the initiated consider that sport is usually just something mechanical, rudimentary, inferior, primary, which more often than not ends up as being tangent with unconsciousness. Current workouts in sport usually include various unconscious, mechanical or instinctive movements.
Intellectual activity activates different areas of the brain
There are significant differences in the way performance sports and genius thinking manifest and train brain function. While it is possible that some aspects may overlap and influence brain performance, in different overlapping domains of activity, performance sport and genius thinking are two clearly different forms of manifestation.
There is some research suggesting that strenuous physical activity, such as competitive sport, can influence the brain and its functioning. For example, some types of regular physical exercise have been associated with development in areas such as cognitive function, memory or mood. Some researchers claim that healthy physical activity can promote the growth of neurons and can stimulate the release of beneficial brain chemicals such as endorphins and neural growth factors.
Activities involving abstract or creative thinking, on the other hand, characteristic of geniuses or people with a particular talent in intellectual fields, manifest by activating other brain regions or fostering different neuronal connections.
Training muscles does not develop intelligence
It is important to emphasise that the human brain is, by its very nature, extremely complex, and that physical and intellectual activities can influence different regions and neural networks in a variety of ways. The personal capacity of the human being to excel in a particular area can be influenced by a complex combination of genetic factors, of life experience and a specific lifestyle.
There is thus a consistent differentiation between the disposition generated in the being by performance sport, and that which manifests in the inner universe of a genius human being.
It is significant that no great genius was a performance athlete, and no famous performance sportsman was a great genius.
Through sport, consciousness remains unexplored
Even though there are a few high performance athletes who are appreciated for their intellectual achievements, genius and sports performance appear to be in an incompatibility that most people do not notice.
This is because in reality the vast majority of performance athletes do not really mobilise or engage the consciousness or tap into its extraordinary, often unsuspected resources, as they are described within the ancient system of yoga.