The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance Audiobook (Free)

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court management of the Bulls, supporting Jordan lead the group to 6 NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless additional NBA players turn around their video games. A widely reputed presenter and coach, Mumford is posting his own story as well as the strategies which have made these athletes into stars in The Mindful Athlete: THE TRICK to Pure Efficiency. His proven, mild but groundbreaking about The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Efficiency mindfulness methods can transform the overall performance of anyone with a goal, be they an Olympian, weekend warrior, executive, hacker, or artist.Mumford’s deeply moving personal story is memorable. A basketball player at the University of Massachusetts (where he roomed with Dr. J, Julius Erving), accidental injuries forced Mumford out of the video game he adored. The meds that relieved the pain of his accidents also numbed him to the emptiness he sensed without the game and finally led him to heroin. After years like a functioning addict, Mumford signed up for Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction system, and made meditation, on / off the cushioning, the guts of his life. He kicked drugs, earned a get better at’s degree in counseling psychology and began teaching meditation to inmates yet others.When Michael Jordan remaining the Chicago Bulls to try out baseball in 1993, the group was in problems. Coach Phil Jackson, a long-time mindfulness practitioner, approached Dr. Kabat-Zinn to discover somebody who could show mindfulness techniques to the battling team—somebody who would have reliability and may speak the vocabulary of his players. Kabat-Zinn led Jackson to Mumford and their partnership began. Mumford spent some time working with Jackson and each one of the eleven groups he coached to be NBA champions. His roster of champion clients offers since blossomed way beyond basketball to include corporate executives, Olympians, and sportsmen.