{"id":371,"date":"2015-05-30T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-05-29T22:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T05:23:04","slug":"the-mindfulness-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/the-mindfulness-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The mindfulness teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet the man who taught Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant meditation. If it has helped top athletes achieve high performance under demanding conditions, why would you not try it? It’s free!<\/p>\n

Article in The Boston Globe<\/em>,\u00a0This mindfulness teacher gets results (just ask Kobe):\u00a0Newton\u2019s George Mumford teaches basketball greats \u2014 and everyday people \u2014 the power of flow.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe crowd gets quiet, and the moment starts to become the moment for me . . . that\u2019s part of that Zen Buddhism stuff. Once you get into the moment, you know when you are there. Things start to move slowly, you start to see the court very well. You start reading what the defense is trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0~ Michael Jordan, after making the game-winning shot to clinch the 1998 championship, his sixth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWhen you get in that zone, it\u2019s just a supreme confidence that you know it\u2019s going in. It\u2019s not a matter of if\u2009\u2013\u2009it\u2019s going in. . . . Everything slows down. You just have supreme confidence. When that happens, you really do not try to focus on what\u2019s going on [around you], because you could lose it in a second. . . . You have to really try to stay in the present, not let anything break that rhythm. . . . You get in the zone and just try to stay here. You don\u2019t think about your surroundings, or what\u2019s going on with the crowd or the team. You\u2019re kind of locked in.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ Kobe Bryant, 5-time world champion, on his 81-point game in 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the man who taught Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant meditation. If it has helped top athletes achieve high performance under demanding conditions, why would you not try it? It’s free! Article in The Boston Globe,\u00a0This mindfulness teacher gets results (just ask Kobe):\u00a0Newton\u2019s George Mumford teaches basketball greats \u2014 and everyday people \u2014 the power of flow. \u201cThe crowd gets quiet, and the moment starts to become the moment for me . . . that\u2019s part of that Zen Buddhism stuff. Once you get into the moment, you know when you are there. Things start to move slowly, you start … Continue reading The mindfulness teacher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,48,51],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-to-articles","tag-flow","tag-instructor","tag-meditation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}