By Alex Tzelnic — 2019
Athletes and teams looking for an extra edge are turning to mindfulness and mental-skills training to improve performance and well-being.
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his fall, Ku Stevens became the fastest cross-country runner in Nevada. But he would be running even if he wasn’t winning.
Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
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Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.
The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, differentiate, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. The notion of emotions being important in our lives goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks.
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Stressing the body makes you stronger—as long as you have time to rest and recover.
Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.
Don’t take anything personally. This agreement gives you immunity in the interaction you have with the secondary characters in your story. You don’t have to concern yourself with other people’s points of view.
No one can force you to eat right and exercise, so you must use self-discipline to get up off the couch and throw away that bag of chips.
Your breathing rate and pattern is a process within the autonomic nervous system that you can control to some extent to achieve different results.
Former monk Jay Shetty reveals a dozen ways to achieve a more fulfilling, happy and meaningful day-to-day life.