One Athletic Mind

January mantras emerge:

Minimize, lighter load, subtract, reduce, release, let go, ahh flexibility and freedom..

Making space for ✨ 🤔 ✨ possibility 🐥
Happy Friday ✌🏼

How have you been embracing change this season?

Olympics 2012: Michael Phelps has mastered the psychology of speed In the water, Michael Phelps is a force to be reckoned with. But his dominance in the pool isn't just a physical attribute. Phelps's exacting mental standard...

Experience Flow: 'So many people have used the analogy of being carried away by an outside force, of moving effortlessly with a current of energy, at the moments of highest enjoyment.' (Csikszentmihalyi, 2003)

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Nice Review of Pain Management. Watch long enough to meet fellow Mindfulness Teacher, Dr. Patrica Bloom!

Science & U! - Science and Pain - CUNY TV This month Science & U! deals with pain:Max Gomez explains how our brain processes pain and what makes the experience different for every individual.Andrew Falzon gives an overview of pain management including therapy, and also delves into a growing o...

Better emotional regulation, and meta cognitive capacity (see own thoughts).

A Harvard neuroscientist reveals three ways meditation changes your brain More than just sitting with your eyes closed.

Hope, gratitude & Love

Which Character Strengths Are Most Predictive of Well-Being? If you seek high well-being, your best bets are gratitude and love of learning.

When the reward circuit is chemically shorted in the brain, those that eat for pleasure released more cortisol & reported nausea. MBSR + MB-EAT groups saw greater weight loss than control groups.

Eating for pleasure: Biomarker identified for mindful eating - American Mindfulness Research... Posted 06.15.2015 | by AMRA Eating is often an enjoyable experience, and at times we eat more for pleasure (“hedonic eating”) than to provide nutrition or reduce hunger. Since pleasure occurs in response to the brain’s release of endogenous opioids (morphine-like neurotransmitters manufactured in th…

Wise Rest Rx -> peak performance & health

Are you "running" yourself into hormonal trouble ? Do those 40+ mile weeks do only good things to your body or could they be hurting you ? Is all this exercise catabolic ? Have you ever heard of hypothyroidism ? How about screwing up the...