Meditation is one method that can be useful when assisting athletes to execute at their peak performance while lowering their stress and anxiety levels.

Meditation & Athletic Performance

- Enhanced athletic performance
- Changed relationship with physical sensations in the body

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- Cognitive goals and benefits
- Emotional goals and benefits
- Physical goals and benefits

Potential Goals and Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation

Fabrizio, D. (ed.). (2009). Clinical handbook of mindfulness. Springer. 

Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness

Davis, D. M., & Hayes, J. A. (2011). What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. Psychotherapy, 48(2), 198–208. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022062

What are the benefits of mindfulness

- Increased ability to concentrate
- Increased cognitive flexibility
- Increased focus
- Enhanced working memory capacity
- Changed relationship with one's thoughts

Cognitive Goals and Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation

- Increased sense of calmness
- Increased self-compassion
- Increased psychological well-being
- Decreased stress
- Decreased rumination
- Decreased emotional reactivity
- Decreased mental suffering
- Emotion regulation skills

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