Episode 33 - An Intro Guide to Mental Training - w/ Alan Jaeger

Pursuit 4 Purpose, hosted by Kirk Cabana, is joined once again by the amazing Alan Jaeger..

This episode was created with you in mind.

As many of you know, Alan is the founder of Jaeger Sports. One of the most well known baseball arm health, arm conditioning, and mental training organizations there is. If you play baseball and you have not heard of J Bands, well you probably need to surround yourself with people who know baseball a little bit better. Alan is taking his time today to share a spark of inspiration that came from a recent positive reception of a social media post regarding mindfulness training. So with this conversation Alan is going to take us through an introduction to mindfulness training for those that want to bring it to their program. In this conversation we will share a guide to beginning this training, some explanation behind the guide, and then we will let Alan take us through a guided mindfulness session to feel it in action

Guided Meditation starts at: 34:52

Mindfulness Guide:

Intro: 

A) Getting Into the right Frame Of Mind (Getting Present)

B) Letting Go (Letting anything physical support you/Laying on a Raft/Floating like a leaf)

(Variation: Body Scan)

C) Observing The Breath (Curious, Inquiry, Investigate, Appreciate)

(Variation: Counting The Breath ie 1-20)

D) Relaxation (Aimless, Freedom, Floating)

* Option: Integrate Imagery/Visualization 

Outro:

E) Culmination/Transition/Affirmation (Using The Breath/Affirmations to transition into the rest of the day)

2 Tools for the Practice

1) Neutrality

2) Redirecting Attention to something that’s not a thought 

Mental Talk, Guided Breathing Exercise, Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4er5U38SU

Mental Practice Plans: https://www.jaegersports.com/mental-practice-plans/

Mental Training/Mental Practice - w/ Jeremy Sheetinger & Alan Jaeger

https://www.jaegersports.com/mental-training-mental-practice/

Enjoy our chat!

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