Sports Mastery

The arrival of a new year signals new expectations.  And when you feel stuck in anything from a relationship to career decisions or even family matters, you may feel more than a little blue.  It’s easy to be swept away by a whole cocktail of negative emotions.  The reason for this is that most people don’t want to bring old baggage into a feeling of newness. There are many possible ways to rid yourself of feeling like you are spinning your tires in muck.  One regiment that I have found works comes from core martial arts techniques. These concepts have helped me find the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel many times over the years, and I want to share them with you.  My hope is that they will serve you well.  Practice empty mind.  If you are feeling mentally paralyzed, martial arts tradition insists you begin your turn-around by emptying your mind completely.  Most of us who have had older computers have experienced how nearly all functions and applications slow down in time—sometimes to a crawl—with th