Meditation helps you see a way!

There is a leading expert in sports psychology and performance, who has miraculously transformed himself from an unemployed person who couldn’t live without medication. The transformation happened when he discovered what he called “the Masterpiece within” through meditation practice. He is George Mumford, the meditation coach who helped Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and countless other NBA players win many of their championships.

Here is what George talked about the main steps you have to take and how meditation helps you achieve your goal:

·      Form clear intention: what exactly do you want to accomplish?     

·      Take incremental steps: taking one step at a time; being a little bit better every single day. Then, an exponential jump!

·      Be cautious of such problems as: you have an idea of how the path should unfold, you are not balancing between having a clear intention and taking action, or you can get off track.

·      Practice meditation to discover the Masterpiece within. This Masterpiece will help you solve all the problems on your journey: It helps you be present to the journey so you can deal with twists and turns. It helps you allow the path to unfold itself: you see the next step more clearly after taking this step. It brings you back on track and helps you see the next right step. It nourishes you each moment so that you have joy and energy to keep “walking”. 

Then, the victory is yours.

Here is a quote from The Mindful Athlete, Secrets to Pure Performance, written by George Mumford: 

"Self-consciousness is when you’re focused on how you’re doing instead of what you’re doing. We have to learn how to push and challenge ourselves, but not in an insensitive way. Honing your performance really comes down to being comfortable with being uncomfortable."

Meta-awareness helps you be comfortable in uncomfortable situations!

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The science of mind backs up meditation!

What I meant by the science of mind is knowledge of the mind acquired from experiments and other research. It can come from several fields such as neuroscience, psychology, or metaphysics.

Meditation gives you insights into nature of things, but meditators don’t have evidence. They just see; they just understand, intuitively. To have evidence for an insight can take a very lengthy process. Personally, I don’t think it’s possible to have evidence for all what we human beings intuitively know. But neuroscience or psychology can back up some of what we have understood with evidence.

The combination between meditation and the knowledge of the human mind will help us see more ways to expand our potential more clearly.

Wisdom

There is one “place” that is not clear-cut whether it belongs to neuroscience, psychology, metaphysics, or meditation. It’s wisdom. You can get wisdom through meditating, reading psychological books, or watching experiments performed by neuroscientists, etc.

But one thing is in common: the wisdom helps you tap into the dormant potentials and make your dream come true faster. So, it’s not necessary to waste time defining which category it belongs to. It’s more important to be open to the wisdom, digest it, and apply it to benefit our lives. That’s what I’d like to share with you in the book.