Benefits of Meditation for Athletes

To perform at your best, especially in high pressure situations, you need to have laser focus. The type of focus where you are so engrossed in the activity that everything else vanishes. You seamlessly and automatically make plays and filter irrelevant information from the relevant. These optimal states of consciousness are referred to as flow states by researchers. And the key driver of flow states is focus. This is why meditating is arguably the best mental training for athletes.

You can think of meditation as a work out for your brain. Similar to how you exercise to strengthen your body, you can meditate to strengthen your brain. And similar to how different forms of exercise train different parts of your body, different forms of meditation strengthen different parts of your brain. Through different forms of meditation, you can strengthen your attention systems to sustain deep focus, lower you stress response, quiet down your internal chatter, doubts and limiting beliefs, and to develop qualities that will make you a happier and all-round better person.

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