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Michael Jordan, Shaquille ONeal, Kobe Bryant, titans of the NBA, all
have something in common that goes beyond their stellar basketball
skills and multiple championship rings.
They all credit the same man for helping their game -- sports
psychologist and mindful meditation teacher George Mumford.
Mumford worked with the Chicago Bulls championship team for five
years during the Jordan hiatus in 1993-1994 and after Jordan came
back to the team in 1995. He has since helped countless NBA players,
including Kobe and Shaq -- hes currently working with the New York
Knicks -- through teaching players mindfulness meditation techniques.
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When he walks into the locker room, Mumford said he has two
approaches.
First I talk about being a warrior, like a samurai...but also about the
zone, he said. They know what the zone is, they know what being
in flow is, so when I talk about that, theyre all ears.
He talked about several different concepts he gives the players,

including one he called one breath, one mind, meaning he gets
everyone in the room to breathe together to become one team.
You start talking to them about how the mind-body interacts, you
start talking to them about how you can slow time down when you
create space between stimulus and response-- [then] three seconds is
an eternity, Mumford said.
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What Mumford means is taking the time to perceive what is
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Its more a monitoring aspect with more-- rather than I got to make
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Watch spiritual bottom I just wasnt happy. You get to a point where you
cant get high and you cant not get high.
And so on April Fools Day 1984 a friend of mine came by who I used
to get high with and he was clean he took me to an AA [Alcoholics
Anonymous] meeting and it totally changed everything, he added. It
started hitting me that Im going to die if I keep doing this And so I
got to a point where I saw there was a way out.
Mumford initially began practicing meditation as a way to deal with

physical pain, but then it went way beyond that, he said.
I realized its being connected to something greater than yourself,

its being able to know the truth and let the truth set you free that
was the ultimate stress reducer, which is really understanding how
this mind-body process works, Mumford said.
After he committed to getting clean almost 32 years ago, Mumford

said he got into Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinns Mindfulness Based Stress
Reduction program and later he worked with him to launch a clinic in
inner-city Boston. Mumford became a therapist and trained other
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companies that are incorporating meditation, mindfulness and yoga
into the workflow. (And yes, he acknowledges that his own book falls
firmly into the category of Mindfulness Inc.)
He said many companies have home-grown meditation practices,

where it started with one employee or a small group who were
interested in finding time to meditate, and then it gradually gained
company support.
Its secular mindfulness he said, that use themes from Buddhist

teachings but not all of its lingo or metaphysics -- which, Gelles says,
isnt necessarily a bad thing.
What weve seen evolve over the last three decades ... is the
evolution of a new kind of secular mindfulness where the initial and
the primary benefits that we can talk about and measure and quantify
have more to do with stress reduction, perhaps some degree of focus,
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WATCH '10% Happier': George Mumford

Can You Be Both Ambitious and Enlightened?

He talked about several different concepts he gives the players,

Mumford initially began practicing meditation as a way to deal with

I realized its being connected to something greater than yourself,

After he committed to getting clean almost 32 years ago, Mumford

What's Wrong With Mindful Mayo?

Gelles, a self-described sporadic mediator, wrote an op-ed for the

economy and the Watch:

He said many companies have home-grown meditation practices,

Its secular mindfulness he said, that use themes from Buddhist

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