Unique position as Badgers` director of meditation training offers Chad McGehee chance to explore mental performance


Unique position as Badgers` director of meditation training offers Chad McGehee chance to explore mental performance


.....Training the mind to release negative thoughts and focus on the task at hand is emerging today in the same way that weight training once did, McGehee said.

“From a neuroscientific perspective, we have so much untapped potential in our minds,” he said. “So here’s a way that we can start to explore ways of training the minds to improve, both in well-being and performance. And I don’t think those are mutually exclusive things. They’re deeply intertwined.”.....

.....McGehee’s knowledge and expertise in meditation and mindfulness practices can run parallel with psychology, Tiedt said.

“If we’re looking at the well-being of all of our students — and their entire being, not just academics or nutrition or psychology — this mindfulness is a real piece to that,” he said. “ ... It’s a specialty that Chad has that we want to tap into and use any way we can.”......

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Bethany`s Notes: Of course I had to put in an article of my alma mater and their hire of a meditation trainer. Very cool!

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