Meditation For Martial Arts: Mental Training Focus, Composure, And Power Under Pressure

Composure is a trainable capacity, and it responds to load the way the rest of you does. This book gives a fighter the practices that build it, each one attached to a drill you can start this week. He runs hills. He lifts. His technique in drilling is clean. Then the buzzer goes on a hard round and something in him comes apart. His shoulders climb toward his ears. His breathing turns shallow and stays there. By the middle of the second round he is finished, and it was not his lungs that finished him.What failed was attention. Attention is trainable. It responds to load, it adapts to consistent practice, and it holds that adaptation the same way an aerobic base does.MEDITATION FOR MARTIAL ARTS is twenty chapters and twenty drills, written in the language of the gym. - The breath you fight with, and the long exhale that reaches the one system you can steer.- Ten minutes before training, and the ten breaths in the car that come to mean here we go.- Reading your own body without panic.- Soft eyes and a wide field, held under live work.- The minute between rounds, built into a structure you can run every time.- The sixty seconds after the adrenaline lands, and what to do inside them.- Losing without collapsing, and the window in which every judgment you make runs too harsh. Each chapter ends with a drill. Give each one a week. In the back are the protocols, stripped to their working form, and a thirty day program that never asks for more than fifteen minutes a day.Read the chapter, then do the drill at the end of it. That is the whole method.