Most think of meditation as something individual and deeply private. It can connect you to your inner self, help cope with stress, and help you reach many other personal goals. But it can be used to reach collective goals as well. For example you can use both personal and group meditation to reach maximum performance while playing sports.
Personal sports meditation helps you reach the physical limits of your body and cope with stress during athletic events, as well as intensifying your sport-specific exercise. Many feel its best to perform short meditation sessions right after the game, when details of your playing is still fresh in memory. This way you build intuitive knowledge of yourself, your teammates and opponents. Such knowledge will be very important when you meet with coaches and teammates to discuss the game's outcome, developing strategies for future games.
But don't underestimate the effectiveness of group meditation (ever hear of the Los Angeles Lakers pre-game meditation with Phil Jackson?), it can prepare the whole team for optimal performance. You can raise team spirit easily with pre-game meditation, intensely focusing while visualizing perfect execution, feeling the energy of your team flowing freely from one member to another.
When used correctly, individual and group meditations can increase your team performance while playing sports, and can be a great addition to any training and sports activity.
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