Author: William Chandon

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9781506190594

The root word for "inspired" is "spirit." Our spirit is the deepest part of us that invites us to train and compete with passion and skill. When we learn to meditate effectively, we gain access to powerful resources that reside in our subconscious mind. In time, we learn to follow our spirit and its wisdom. We learn to unleash our potential and perform with all of our ability. When we perform as inspired athletes, we begin a journey of self-discovery to find out just how good we can be. This book is based on Mind Games: Daily Meditations for Great Athletes. Rather than being organized by calendar, this book is reorganized by topic and chapter. This book includes new chapters on motivation and leadership for athletes. There's a crucial difference between reading about our mental game and improving our mental game. Having knowledge is useful, but it isn't sufficient to cause change. We need to apply our essential knowledge to make important changes and develop ourself so that we can be the athletes we desire to be. This book gives you a powerful way of bridging the gap between knowledge and effective action. For many of us athletes, performing at a high level or "in the zone" is an unpredictable event. We don't know when or why it happens. After we have learned to meditate effectively, we recognize that the experiences that we have while meditating are similar to the experiences we have while performing in the zone. That's because performing in the zone is a meditative state. We can learn to perform in the zone more often by learning to meditate in the right ways. When we learn to meditate, we learn to manage ourself in ways that are conducive to optimal performance. That's what this book teaches you to do. This book assumes that you don't have experience with meditation. This form of meditation might be different than you think. This form of meditation is simple to learn and practice. Each of the meditations in the book has some thoughts for your reflection and has a unique affirmation at the end, which you use for your meditation. You mindfully read the reflection and then meditate on the affirmation. With this book, you have a program for developing your mental approach to sports in as little as 15 minutes per day. Consider the following questions about some of the key mental components of high-performance athletes. If you don't feel comfortable with your answers, you have an opportunity to improve your mental game and your performance. Are you as good as you can be? Do you know how to improve your mental game? Do you know how to perform in the zone more often? What's your plan to reach your highest performance levels? What are you not doing that could help you improve? What are you doing mentally that's not working well? What do you not believe about yourself that could help you improve? How do you undercut your ability? What do you need to stop believing about yourself in order to improve? Can you be mentally tougher? Can you be more confident? Can you be a better learner? Can you be more creative about the ways you practice and compete? Can you plan your development better? Can you be more motivated? Do you know how to manage your nerves? Can you be smarter about how you change? Can you be smarter about what you need to change? Do you know what's holding you back? Do you know how to improve your performance? Are you doing everything you can do to perform better? What are your expectations about how much you're going to improve? What's your potential? What resources do you need to improve? Can you think better? Can you manage your emotions better? Can you manage your physical states better? Can you be a better leader? Can you have more fun with sports?