Mesa Community College Thunderbirds Baseball team's locker room. The locker room is surrounded by powerful and positive messages to remind the team of their accomplishments.
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"IT IS NOT ABOUT THE OPPONENT IT IS ABOUT PLAYING AGAINST THE GAME" - Coach Anthony Cirelli -Cynthia Esqueda
Dedication, Strength, ambition, persistence, and talent are some of the qualities that make a complete athlete. The common success ingredient for each is mental toughness and discipline.
To maintain a consistency in improving as an athlete it is necessary and important to maintain a healthy style. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is as much mental and emotional as it is physical or scientific. Sports training consist of proper nutrition, and physical preparation, but most importantly mental preparation. Learning how to cope with anxiety, nervousness, and anger can be challenging. It is a constant process of self-awareness and focus on body’s physical responses. Many professional athletes and coaches have found that incorporating meditation has benefited the athletes during the game. Hiking, yoga, stretching, breathing, reading, writing, are some of the few types of forms of meditations and athlete can incorporate in a daily basis. More advanced meditation practices include focus attention meditation, open monitoring meditation, Buddhist meditation, mindfulness meditation, transcendental meditation, and so on. Athletes like Lebron James, Kobe Bryan, Derek Jeter, Barry Zito, Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh, and many more. |
UFC Featherweight Fighter Yair Rodriguez visited ESPN Deportes radio station and discussed how meditation has helped him professionally to over come challenges and anxiety.
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Basketball coach Robert Ortiz, believes in teaching his young athletes to practice breathing and focus meditation before a game and after.
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NASCAR driver for Joe Gibbs Racing Daniel Suárez incorporates a moment of silence to pray and focus before any competition. He is a true believer in mental preparation and constantly practices meditation.
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BREATHE EXHALE INHALE FOCUS DETERMINATION PERSISTENCE VISION CREATIVITY MIND SOUL POWER STRENGTH