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Thanyapura Mind Centre Sport Mindfulness Programs

Extensive research has shown that the athletic mind accounts for up to 90% of what differentiates the average athlete from the standout performer.
 
Coaches and experts agree that at the highest levels of athletic performance, the discipline of the mind is the critical deciding factor between winning and losing.
 
Frequently, athletes are not separated by their physical abilities, but rather by their capacity to manage their feelings, emotions, and physical talents under a variety of pressures in practice, competition and other aspects of life.
 
Thanyapura Sports Mindfulness Programs directly address three critical areas, key to the success of the athlete: focus, awareness and emotional intelligence.
 
Athletes will have the opportunity to engage in processes specifically designed to systematically assess their mental and emotional fundamentals.
 
Thanyapura mind coaches will then work directly with the individual to create a blueprint for taking their performance to the next level. Athletes will be provided with the mental techniques and exercises necessary to create the optimal performance mind set: a synchronization of intense focus and mobile awareness, simultaneously capable of superior patience, greater resilience and explosive focused action. 

  • Improve performance under pressure
  • Reduce and manage stress, anxiety and fear
  • Increase focus & reduce distraction
  • Reduce the impact of mental fatique on performance
  • Learn to maintain motivation over long periods of time
  • Create the foundations for attaining “flow”
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Shamatha and the Four Immeasurables

Each year Thanyapura Mind Centre holds two eight-week intensive training programmes in the practices of shamatha and the four immeasurables. The Sanskrit term “shamatha” refers to an array of meditative practices designed to enhance one’s attentional and meta cognitive abilities. Three methods will be highlighted during these training programmes; mindfulness of breathing, observing the mind, and awareness of awareness. Training in the Four Immeasurables is comprised of the meditative cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. The physiological and psychological effects of this combined training are being scientifically studied in the 'Shamatha Project,' co-sponsored by the University of California, Davis, and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

Cultivating Emotional Balance Teachers’ Training Course

In 2000, psychologist Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar and contemplative B. Alan Wallace devised a 42-hour training programme called Cultivating Emotional Balance, which has been scientifically studied by a joint effort from the University of California, San Francisco and the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. This training programme draws from meditative practices in the Buddhist tradition, focusing on the cultivation of attention, meta cognition, mindfulness, empathy, and compassion, combined with evidence-based methods drawn from modern psychology focusing on the cultivation of emotional regulation and mindfulness. 

The six-week training for those wishing to become qualified instructors of this programme includes theoretical and practical instruction in the meditative and psychological aspects of this programme. Visit the Cultivating Emotional Balance website.

Scientific Research

Whenever possible, the training programmes offered at Thanyapura Mind Centre will be conducted in conjunction with rigorous scientific studies, using the methodologies of clinical and cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, to assess the physiological and psychological effects of these trainings. These studies will be conducted at our meditation retreat in Thailand in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and major universities from around the world. 
 
For more information about training programmes at Thanyapura Mind Centre, please contact us at tmc@thanyapura.com.

 

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