Pro Runners who use Mindfulness/Meditation?

Prayer = a form meditation.

Serious answers only? Sorry, wrong forum, but like the guy before me said: Prayer is definitely a form meditation.

Mindfulness is Buddhist technique and is a component of the practice of dropping the self.

A pro runner needs to have a fully engaged ego focused on driving through goals.

fred wrote:

A pro runner needs to have a fully engaged epo focused on driving through goals.

I corrected your post.

A lot of golfers and tennis players meditate.

Read the book Running Within by Jerry Lynch and Warren Scott

That jerk pilferred the idea from India and renamed it "Mindfulness".

Mo Farah

MLB baseball players such as Alex Rodriguez have been known to work with psychologists to clear the mind and have good at bats I.e. Good sports performance

So yes it is important

What a fake phony sham wrote:

That jerk pilferred the idea from India and renamed it "Mindfulness".

What jerk?

I've always wonder who co-opted Buddhism and re-marketed it as "Mindfulness."

I've read that the British health system has used that and CBT as ways to treat mental health issues and get people off of prescriptions, in order to lower health care costs in the UK. --There was a kind of scandal about it a few years ago.

No doubt the term "Mindfulness" is less triggering to those of controlling religious paradigms than "Buddhism" would be.

Neuroscientific studies of Buddhist Monks, however, have shown that years of meditation can give one more control and acuity with their brain.

For instance you can ask a Buddhist Monk to laugh hysterically on command, and they can do it as if they just heard the funniest joke. Then you can ask them to stop and to cry with complete grief, and they can do it.

It's kind of like how babies can go from laughing, to terror, in an instant without and real obvious cause. Neonates can run through all the human emotions in breakneck pace, like an adult plucking the strings of a guitar one at a time.

Plenty of runners were using TM (Transcedental Meditation) back in the 70's and 80's.

It's basically a way to clear your mind of the automatic monologue or dialogue in your thoughts and relax your breathing and body.

The relax part is about emotional regulation, getting yourself to take a break from the automatic way your baseline state runs, and "quieting the mind."

Good Luck!

(Transcedental Meditation) back in the 70's and 80's.

What the hell is that? It sounds like it would hurt my molars.

I remarked the other day on how running (trail running, in particular, though others might have the same response to non-trail running) satisfies two things considered to be very important to a balanced life: physical exertion and meditation.

Many meditation texts advise you to focus only on the physical processes of your body, which clears the mind of external thoughts. Running on singletrack trails forces you to do exactly this. Instead of thinking about your job, money, or women, you're only thinking about the root four feet in front of you, if the amount of exertion you're giving will last another 1½ hours, and whether or not you should hit this next uphill hard.

I fully believe the reason I hate life more often in the winter than in the summer is because I can't hit the trails as often since it's dark when I get off work.

gulpgulp wrote:

(Transcedental Meditation) back in the 70's and 80's.

What the hell is that? It sounds like it would hurt my molars.

Use your interwebs, whippersnapper!

gulpgulp wrote:

(Transcedental Meditation) back in the 70's and 80's.

What the hell is that? It sounds like it would hurt my molars.

Use your interwebs, whippersnapper!

gee weezer wrote:

gulpgulp wrote:

(Transcedental Meditation) back in the 70's and 80's.

What the hell is that? It sounds like it would hurt my molars.

Use your interwebs, whippersnapper!

Use your eyes, geezer! He was commenting on the misspelling of "transcendental". Without the middle n it looks like it has something to do with teeth!

every single professional runner meditates. anyone who worries knows how to meditate. all meditation is, is focusing on a specific thought or image in your mind. its really not as "mystical" and far out as most people perceive.

BUMP!!!!!