Meditation For Athletic Development

This meditation is not just for athletes but for anyone with a fitness, exercise, or movement practice. It is meant to be practiced whenever and wherever (at work, at the gym, while out walking, while sitting on the couch, before bed).

Foundational Idea: To get the most out of your body, you need to be able to control it at will, which is a goal of this meditation practice.

As you use this track, please honor your body and its communications to the brain. Respect where you are at.

Transcript

This meditation is designed to use a chosen muscle group as the object of concentration for your meditation practice.

And by using a selected muscle in your body,

You are both training your mind to bring one-pointed awareness to an object,

Being the muscle.

And you're also going to start changing your body composition to be able to be leaner.

Take a moment now to select which muscle you would like to use as your object of meditation.

It may be your cleaves,

It may be your bicep,

It may be your upper back.

And when you're ready,

I'm going to count you in with a three-count.

And at the end of the three-count,

You are going to bring a single-pointed focus to your selected muscle while flexing or activating that muscle with all your might.

You can get into whatever position is calling to you to better facilitate the activation of the muscle.

And so,

For example,

If your object of meditation is your glutes,

You're going to squeeze your butt cheeks together as hard as you can for a count of five seconds.

If your object of meditation is your bicep,

You are going to flex your bicep.

And if you don't have that mind-body connection yet with your bicep,

You can say,

Brain,

Flex my bicep to start developing that neuropathway and to start the journey with a better relationship with your bicep.

Or if your selected muscle group is your upper back,

You're going to squeeze your shoulders together.

You're going to try and bring your shoulders as close together as possible behind you and squeeze for the whole five seconds.

And so,

On the count of three,

You're going to go in three,

Two,

One,

Flex,

Hold,

Hold,

Hold,

Hold,

Hold,

Release,

Breathe.

Good job.

You can shake,

You can move,

You can adjust.

We're going to do that two more times and you're going to keep with the muscle that you've selected.

That is your object of meditation.

That is your concentration focal point.

In three,

Two,

One,

Flex,

Squeeze,

Activate,

Direct.

Good work.

Let it go.

Shake it off.

We're going to do that one more time.

And I'm going to count you in.

In three,

Two,

One,

Squeeze,

Activate,

Hold it,

Breathe,

Flex,

Let it go,

Breathe.

This practice is meant to follow you wherever you need and wherever you want to practice your concentration.

You can use a muscle in your body to start working on that concentration.

And like I said at the introduction,

You're both then training your mind and training your body.

May this practice accompany you where you need.