Creating a Daily Meditation Habit as an Athlete
The benefits of meditation only accrue with consistency. Here's how to build a meditation habit that sticks alongside your training schedule.
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Thoughts on meditation, mindfulness, and returning to what matters.
The Psychology of Slumps: Breaking Performance Downturns
Every athlete experiences slumps—extended periods where performance inexplicably drops. Understanding the psychology of slumps and applying mindfulness techniques can accelerate recovery and build resilience.
Walking Meditation: A Complete Practice Guide
Meditation doesn't require sitting. Walking meditation transforms ordinary movement into profound practice—developing presence, grounding scattered energy, and integrating awareness with the body in motion.
Post-Surgery Recovery: Using Meditation to Accelerate Healing
Surgery is just the beginning—recovery determines outcomes. Meditation supports post-surgical healing through stress reduction, sleep improvement, and pain management.
Hindu Meditation Traditions: Yoga Beyond Asana
Long before yoga meant poses, it meant meditation. Hindu traditions offer practices from mantra and breath to self-inquiry and devotion—a vast treasury largely unknown in the West.
Meditation for Baseball: The Mental Game Between Pitches
Baseball's pace creates unique opportunities for mental training. Learn how meditation techniques help hitters, pitchers, and fielders master the mental game between pitches.
The Gut-Brain Axis: How Meditation Affects Digestion and Performance
Your gut and brain are in constant communication. For athletes, this connection affects everything from pre-competition nerves to recovery. Here's what the gut-brain axis means for performance.
Anger in Sport: Channeling Intensity Without Losing Control
Anger in athletics is inevitable—bad calls, opponents' behavior, your own mistakes. The difference between elite and average athletes often lies not in whether they feel anger, but in what they do with it.
Open Awareness Meditation: Training Peripheral Vision and Attention
Open awareness meditation trains a different attention mode than focused concentration—wide, receptive, and inclusive. For athletes, this develops the peripheral awareness that elite performance requires.
Building a Meditation Space: Environment Design for Athletes
Your environment affects your practice. A thoughtfully designed meditation space—even a simple one—supports consistent, deep practice without elaborate setup.
Meditation for Basketball: Court Vision and Game Awareness
Basketball's speed demands instant decision-making from a calm center. Meditation develops the court awareness and clutch composure that separate good players from great ones.
Tibetan Mind Training: Lojong and the Warrior's Heart for Athletes
Tibetan Buddhism developed 'lojong'—mind training techniques for transforming adversity into strength. These practices, designed for the spiritual warrior, offer powerful tools for athletic mental training.