The Mindful Athlete: Gaining the Competitive . Edge Enhance Performance with Mindfulness

By Chuck

Description

The Mindful Athlete - Gaining the Competitive Edge: Enhance Performance with Mindfulness by Chuck is one of the latest tomes on becoming a mindful athlete. Whether you are a highly performing athlete already or a player in a slump, this book will help you find your way toward being a centered and focused athlete. Not only does this book teach you practical tips on becoming a more mindful athlete, but it also offers advice on how to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life. With real-life examples of athletes who have struggled with their performance issues,  Chuck wrote The Mindful Athlete - Gaining the Competitive Edge: Enhance Performance with Mindfulness for both collegiate and professional athletes. If you have decided that sports will be a part of your life for years to come, this book will help you understand how successful athletes have mastered the ability to focus on the present.

Some of the unique benefits of this book include:

Explanations for why so many athletes struggle with letting go of past failures

Stories about real athletes who have overcome the odds and maintained a successful and healthy career in sports

Practical tips on how to integrate mindfulness into your life, both on and off the field

Ways to get out of a slump

Inspirational stories about athletes who have struggled and became better athletes because of it

Advice on how to turn negatives into positives

This book is meant to help athletes reframe the current state of their performance so they can focus their efforts on becoming the best athletes they can be. Even if you have the raw talent and work ethic needed to become a highly-performing athlete, you still need the proper mindset to be a winner. The Mindful Athlete - Gaining the Competitive Edge: Enhance Performance with Mindfulness is just the book to help you do this.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chuck
• Release date: May 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224379712

Book preview

Chapter 1: What Is Mindfulness?

If you ask ten different people what mindfulness is, you will get ten different responses. Mindfulness is simply the practice or ability to think in the here and now. It is the attitude you achieve when you learn how to let go of the past and stop worrying about the present. When speaking about the past and the future, people who live in the Lowcountry always say that there is no reason to pay the toll twice. What they mean is that there is no reason to beat yourself up over something that happened in the past. Nor is there any good that can come out of worrying about what may happen in the future. Once you achieve mindfulness, you will no longer let anything but the present occupy your mind. This is critically important for an athlete.

One of the biggest reasons athletes suffer a slump is because they do not know how to let go of the past. They are thinking about the last time they came to the plate with the bases loaded and hit into a double play. Or they are remembering what happened in their last football game when they missed the uprights on what would have been a winning field goal. When your mind focuses on things like this, it is impossible to find success in the present. We see this all the time in sports. Athletes always think about their past failures and turn what would have been one bad at-bat into a terrible homestand. One way you can prevent this from happening to you is to learn how to master the practice of mindfulness.

In this chapter, we will explain what mindfulness is and how it helps you in your daily life. We will also discuss some of the benefits of mindfulness. Finally, we will describe some strategies you can use to achieve mindfulness.

Mindfulness Generally

As briefly stated above , mindfulness is a mental state in which a person thinks of nothing but the present moment. It is when you can let go of the past and forget worrying about the future. However, mindfulness goes beyond that. It is a state of mind where you focus on where you are, who you are, and what you are doing. You should not be concerned with the how or why. It is often the how and why that makes our lives complicated. When we are constantly trying to ascribe meaning to every action, thought, and sensation, we are not able to enjoy the present moment. When you practice mindfulness, the goal is to learn how to block out and ignore all external stimuli. There are a variety of ways in which you can practice and enjoy mindfulness. We will discuss the more common methods of achieving mindfulness