Meditation

Welcome to the Healthy Mindset App podcast where host Mike Hartman, a performance coach and former professional athlete brings his passion to help athletes and workplace athletes achieve their dreams and goals while being mindful of everything else in life. Mike also uses this platform to share his targeted assessment application Healthy Mindset course meditation and goal setting technique for the athlete and workplace athlete. We're glad you're here. Now let's dive headfirst into this episode of the Healthy Mindset App Podcast podcast. Here's your host, Mike Hartman.

Welcome back to the Healthy Mindset App podcast and today I'm going to talk about meditation and how it could offer a wide range of physical, mental, emotional benefits. And we use meditation within the healthy mindsetapp.com community. We would love to have you there. You don't go to www. Go to healthymindsetapp.com and just to talk about how meditation can help you. And we're gonna change things around with our meditation. I really can't make that announcement today. We have a bunch of meditations on our on our site but we're in our community but we're also gonna have a different form of meditation coming your way. So let's just start with number one, stress reduction meditation is known for calming effects of the mind. Know it relaxes me. I use it when I'm walking or I'll do walking meditation. It just helps me in so many ways. I've been practicing meditation for since 1986. It really helps reduce stress by and I really promote relaxation. I think it's so important to slow the body down and it really helps with your overall stress. Number two, it improves focus and concentration. So regular meditation practice can enhance your ability to focus and have you concentrate more. It trains your mind to stay what we said it so many times present mindfulness, be in the moment which can improve your productivity, efficiency and like your everyday daily task, it will help you relaxing your mind is just so key just to helping you with your overall focus and concentration. We talk about emotional regulation. Meditation can help you become more aware of your emotions and how they arise. The awareness allows you to respond to emotions more skillfully and manage them effectively. A lot of us today, I've heard it somewhere we talk about mental health. So number four it's like anxiety depression management. So meditation techniques, it helps out so much and I always say consulting your doctor I don't want to go against anything that your healthcare professional would provide. But mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. And I have to say this, you have to consult with your, with your healthcare professional because I can't give that advice. That's not what we do. We are coaches. But they really help gain that sense of control over your thoughts and feelings. Well, I know it helps me and it's helped out a lot of people that I've worked with in athletes and workplace athletes. Number five. It also gives you that mind body connection. So meditation promotes a stronger connection between your mind and body. This can lead to a better awareness of your physical sensations, improve posture and greater sense of your overall well being. Talk about mind body so much. One of my favorite ones is our dietitian has helped us out Cheryl Buckley with this. Number six is better sleep. And I started using that app Calm and I do promote them. I just don't promote our own. We also have sleep meditation that's in our healthy mindsetapp.com but it's meditative. It practices can help you relax and quiet your mind which can improve your quality of sleep. Sleep is everything to me. If I don't get my sleep, I'm not probably too pleasant to be around. This especially is true for practices like progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery which we talk about so much increased self awareness. So meditation encourages self reflections and introspections. Just it helps you become more in tune with your thoughts. It helps you become more aware. And once you become more aware and mindful of your body, this leads to greater self awareness overall. It helps with enhanced creativity. It really does. I know it's helped me so many times by calming my mind. It reduces the clutter. You know, sometimes we have a lot of noise in our head and we can't get it out. Or it could be around people, it could be at work, or it could even be a teammate or anybody. And we have this noise that's going on in our head. It almost makes us tired sometimes. And meditation is a tool just to tap into, just to try it. I know some people say that doesn't work for me, but you have to practice it. If you're an athlete and you're a basketball player and you're working on your jump shot, you can't just do it a few times. You have to continuously practice it to get better. And I want to talk about just negative thinking too. The regular meditation can help reduce negative thought patterns. It has helped me out so much I started doing meditation and it just, just the thought of it just even depending on what type of meditation that, that you're going to do. Because there's so many different types of meditation it's, it's so, it's so helpful to think about. Okay. If you're going through negative things, what using certain tools and I look at meditation as a tool, it could really help you. And the last one is the physical health and benefits of it. Meditation has been linked to various physical health benefits including lower blood pressure, improved immune function, better digestion. It could also help reduce the risk of stress related illnesses. I've heard this so many times. So we do have meditation in our community. We love to have you be part of our community@healthymindsetapp.com if you can't afford for the community, please send me a private message and there's no questions asked. We're here to help people. I have a dream of serving 10,000 people in the in our community we have group coaching. We have so many great things and tools to to help you get better, more prepared and you know, help you leave, you know, help you live your dreams and goals while being mindful of everything else in life. And meditation is something I thought was very important to discuss today. Any questions, Please reach out healthymindsetapp.com.

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