I share my thoughts on the practice of meditation, including my recent 10-day silent retreat experience, general benefits of meditation, and how its influenced my feelings about social media, athletic performance, and more.
Topics covered:
-my background in meditation and how I decided to embark on a 10-day silent retreat
-a primer on the technique of Vipassana meditation, a brief structure of the course, and key takeaways from the experience
-my thoughts on the general benefits of meditation and some of the research being done
-potential implications for athletic performance
-meditation’s connection to social media and distraction and why I deleted Instagram
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-jackson
References/Show Notes:
Meditation research:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1559827614537789
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12883106
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/obr.12623
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23527522
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