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Gaining Control Over Your Attention and Energy Flow

Gaining Control Over Your Attention and Energy Flow

by | 15 Apr, 2022

The mind and the body develop together and where one goes the other is pulled along. If you are training the body to become capable of something extraordinary, are you training the mind for its role in this as well? There is a saying, most notably promoted by Daniel...
Differentiating Your Thinking from Awareness and Attention

Differentiating Your Thinking from Awareness and Attention

by | 7 Jan, 2022

At one time or another, you may have received the rebuke, “Don’t think about it so much. Just do it!” In some consequential situations where self-control is needed, slowing down to think is a really good thing to do. In others, where a different kind of control is...
How Can You Improve By Not Trying To?

How Can You Improve By Not Trying To?

by | 16 Jan, 2021

For many in our culture, probably the most challenging attitude to develop in mindfulness is ‘non-striving’. It is certainly counter-intuitive in nearly every context we face.  In mindfulness meditation, non-striving could be viewed as a skill we develop...
Do You Have Enough Patience For Swimming?

Do You Have Enough Patience For Swimming?

by | 22 Nov, 2020

We continue this exploration of what Jon Kabat-Zinn calls the Attitudes of Mindfulness with a discussion on how  patience plays an important role in our swimming practice. You may enjoy hearing Kabat Zinn briefly describe this attitude. Mindfulness for our swimming...
Have Extra Time? Improve Your Awareness and Attention

Have Extra Time? Improve Your Awareness and Attention

by | 19 Apr, 2020

For those who have extra time, if I could choose a third skill for you to build and strengthen I would choose awareness and attention. Awareness and attention increase in strength and skillfulness when they are applied to challenges and used frequently. Yet, people...
Awareness Leads To Better Breathing

Awareness Leads To Better Breathing

by | 13 Jan, 2020

Here is an excerpt from my forthcoming book (working title) Better Breathing In Freestyle. …no matter how skilled or not you are in breathing, before you can correct and control any of your breathing errors, you have to become aware of what breathing your body...
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