Sports Meditation

A Walk in the Wood is both inspiring and instructive. Simple stories with clearly stated goals and easy-to-follow exercises provide all the tools you'll need to take the first step, or continue on your journey, toward a quieter and calmer way of living.

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public speaker and coach, Mumford is sharing his own story and the strategies that have made these athletes into stars in The Mindful Athlete: The Secret to Pure Performance.

I was hooked from the start. A terrific read of the can't-put-it-down variety! - Andy Clayton, Daily News A modern day Hoosiers where reality trumps what even the most talented writer could dream up. - Andrés Alvarez, Box Score Geeks Pressure plays, buzzer-beaters, and mindfulness meditation: A team of teenagers goes for the championship in Namibia’s professional basketball league. Ben Guest takes a high school coaching gig on the other side of the world. On the first day of practice one of the ten players can’t complete a simple defensive slide. Follow their journey over two seasons ...

Are you looking for unique ways to "get into the game"? To enhance your training and find focus? You aren't alone. Increasingly, athletes and coaches are incorporating mindfulness practices into their training. That's because mindfulness can help you lower your stress levels, connect with the moment, and mentally bounce back after setbacks. So whether you're a sports enthusiast or a professional athlete, mindfulness can also help you deal with physical aspects of training, such as fatigue, aches, pains, injury, burnout, and exhaustion.

A world-renowned psychologist and mindfulness performance expert who has helped superstars such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant transform their careers, offers proven strategies for unleashing our innate strengths, avoiding burnout, and discovering enduring success.

In chapters such as "During Your Swing Is Not the Time to Give Yourself a Lesson" and "How to Enjoy a Bad Round of Golf," the author guides golfers with simple yet powerful techniques to prepare for, execute, and, equally important, respond to the results of any golf shot. The author, Dr. Joseph Parent, is a PGA Tour Instructor who draws on his teaching experience to offer special methods that have led to amazing improvements in the games of professionals and amateurs alike.

Unlock the Hidden Weapon of Champions: Your Mind. What if the secret to peak performance, mental toughness, and rapid recovery wasn’t in your muscles—but in your mind? Meditation for Athletes is the ultimate performance-boosting guide designed for competitors, fitness enthusiasts, and sports professionals who want to gain an unshakable mental edge using the transformative power of mindfulness, focus training, and breathwork. Whether you’re chasing Olympic gold, pushing for a personal record, or rebounding from burnout, in this book, Fitness Coach and Exercise Physiologist, Atolani ...

As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community of 165 meditation centers), Sakyong Mipham has found physical activity to be essential for spiritual well-being. He's been trained in horsemanship and martial arts but has a special love for running. Here, he incorporates his spiritual practice with running, presenting basic meditation instruction and fundamental principles he has developed.

Ability on its own has never been enough. The best athletes know that their secret weapon is the power of their mind. Dr. Stephen Simpson works with many of the world's top sports stars and poker players. So you want to discover the most effective mind secrets to use in your favourite sport to take your game to at least the next level? Excellent. You will find many in this book. Discover how to unleash your massive potential! These secrets of the top sports stars earned them a whopping total of $447 million in just a single year. Now YOU will discover the secrets of success used by our top ...

Are you tired of feeling like a gym douchebag? Do you want to cultivate a more mindful, respectful approach to your workouts and fitness journey? Look no further than 30 Days to Stop Being a Gym Douchebag. This comprehensive workbook offers a practical and effective mindfulness program designed to help you transform your gym habits and become a more mindful, respectful member of your fitness community. With 30 unique mindfulness exercises, each accompanied by a corresponding hashtag that allows you to connect with others and share your insights online, this workbook provides a step-by-step ...

This definitive work, written by a long-term teacher of Eastern philosophy and practice, explores the relationship between breathing, the quiet mind and playing effortless golf, especially when under pressure. Drawing on a lifetime of meditation and Tai Chi, plus 18 years’ research into the perfect golf shot, Breathe GOLF teaches you how to unite your mental game with your swing.

Deepak Chopra has discovered the delights, and frustrations, of golf, and he is passionate about the game. Confronted by the wild ups and downs of his own play, he consulted with golf professionals and developed a new approach to the game that any golfer, from the novice to the expert, can follow. The results can be measured not only in increased enjoyment and skill, but also in greater wisdom about life beyond the 18th hole.

Janet Messineo knew from the get-go that she wanted to become a great fisherman. She knew she was as capable as any man of catching and landing a huge fish. It took years - and many terrifying nights along on the beach in complete darkness, in search of a huge creature to pull out of the sea - for her to prove to herself and to the male-dominated fishing community that she could make her dream real. Casting into the Light is a book about following one’s dreams and about the quiet reckoning with self in the long hours of darkness at the water’s edge.

The benefits of mindfulness for general well-being have been discussed extensively, but little has been written about how mindfulness can be applied to running. In this book, leading health and fitness journalist Mackenzie L. Havey explores how combining mindfulness with running can not only improve sporting performance but can also enhance overall health.

Hopefully, you’ve read the first edition of this book and found it helpful in maintaining a Zen attitude on the court. Hopefully your focus is better and you are more calm, seeing the game in slow motion. You are visualizing your shots before you hit them. And you are talking to your partner more often, resulting in better communication between you. Maybe you are now having more fun playing pickleball and you are not being so hard on yourself when you make silly mistakes. Pickleball is a game where you can constantly improve and mistakes help you to grow and become better. In my humble ...

A lyrical account of an activity that is essential for our sanity, equilibrium, and well-being, from the author of Silence.

Pickleball has lately become all the rage in America. Indeed, all across the globe. Once a sport for older racket sports enthusiasts who needed a slower version of their favorite sport, now youngsters are picking up the game, playing in pro tournaments, and making a good living from pickleball. And with the growing popularity of pickleball has come the need for lessons and clinics to teach the mechanics of the sport. I used to teach tennis, but when I found pickleball about five years ago, I put away my tennis rackets and have used a pickleball paddle ever since.

An Art is the story of a professional fighter who returns to his home country to compete in a major MMA event. During his six weeks training camp in a small, isolated town situated amongst beautiful mountains, he discovers the true meaning of martial arts under the guidance of his new coach, but also learns about love from a beautiful yoga instructor and her five-years old boy who teaches him meditation, mindfulness and ultimately self-transcendence.

I used to be one of those people who thought that meditation was just not for me. I thought it was something reserved for yogis sitting cross-legged on mountain tops. I struggled to sit still even for a moment—how on Earth was I ever going to meditate! If this sounds like you, then this book is definitely for you. In the last two decades, I have discovered what meditation really is and how it can help you become a finer version of yourself in any area of life.

Negative thoughts are like weeds that grow all the time without any nurturing since it’s in the human nature to think of negative consequences.

On the other hand, positive thinking about health, love, wealth, success are hard to come by, and like everything worth fighting in this life, they require a lot of nurture and care.

This audiobook plans to give you exactly what you need: the means to stay positive through constant affirmations designed to help improve oneself, change a bad behavior, or channel the universe to attract good things in your life.