Hyderabad: The match is in full swing…the opponent is slowly gaining domination. We sometimes see that a team with physical fitness, patience, capacity to win, loses with depleted self-confidence and increased mental stress.
While dominating the opponent in a thrilling battle with one or two points away from the win, thoughts soon cross boundaries and the mind already starts celebrating the victory.
In the meantime, we will see that the opponent recovers and snatches the match!
These are the bad consequences of lack of concentration on the game and lack of control over the mind.
National Badminton Chief Coach Pullela Gopichand says that a true champion who accepts everything equally without succumbing to the exhilaration of success or depression of defeat.
Gopichand says that the best way to overcome these extreme opposite states of mind is through meditation.
Why Meditation?
From a broader perspective, it is good to have clarity in the thoughts that come while playing...very good if no thoughts in another angle.
Having ideas on how to play in a match is good. The best way is to play without any thoughts at all. It is called ‘zone’ in sports.
The most important technique to get into that zone is meditation. Both negative and overly positive thoughts in sports are not good.
Meditation keeps the mind focused on preventing such thoughts. If a child fails in his tenth grade, only his family and relatives will know.
The whole world watches if a player loses. This situation can lead to negative thoughts in players.
They go into a psychological depression. Not only negative… it is equally not good to get into positive thoughts too!
Many go into the future before the end of the match. They even imagine as to what next after the win.
In the meanwhile, they forget to finish the match properly. It is extremely important to be in full concentration at that moment. Meditation contributes to this.
Meditation Machine
Concentration is important in meditation. We see a lot of people meditating every day.
But no one knows how many are doing it right. Everyone sits concentrating on the heart or forehead or navel and meditates.
Are we doing meditation properly or not? How many people are meditating one hundred per cent on the forehead? There is no device to know how much result is achieved with the meditation done.
The apparatus to measure the intensity of meditation, concentration and the extent of the result is meditation itself!
Do ordinary people and athletes meditate properly? That is the biggest question! The ‘Dhyana App’ is useful for all of them. You can download and use the app for free. Buy a device that looks like a ring.
It measures the intensity, concentration, and result of meditation. It assesses the quality of Meditation.
Newcomers can learn how to do it. Those with low concentration gain an understanding of how to increase and can meditate with more intensity and concentration.
How do we breathe through the meditation app? How much should be improved? Things like that are known.
The immense necessity in the future
Everyone is focused on mental health in the current COVID conditions constantly thinking about health and doing breathing exercises. Irrespective of the fact that how many are doing meditation now, meditation will become a necessity for everyone in the future.
Polluted/contaminated thoughts are increasing day by day and control over the thoughts and mind is decreasing. Meditation is very necessary for such situations.
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