A Mindful way to Peak Performance in ALL areas of LIFE – Luke Doherty #250

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Why Mindfulness is so important for the health of athletes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">Today we are joined on the Brain Booster with Luke Doherty who has been doing some amazing work in sport applying the principles of Mindfulness</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">Luke Doherty trained as an elite rugby player and was capped for England under-18's. He earned a degree and Postgrad diploma in Law as well as advanced-level mindfulness training qualifications from Breathworks and the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre. He's since been dedicated to devising and delivering bespoke mindfulness programmes for some of the UK's leading athletes and forward thinking executives, working with Premiership rugby and football players, Olympians and Team GB athletes. His innovative approaches using mindfulness have received national media coverage and he's part of a consortium which advises the Dept. of Health and Social Care.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">Luke has lived an extraordinarily varied life part of which was when he spent six years in a Buddhist Mindfulness Centre</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">We had a very important conversation about mental health in competitive sport and how Mindfulness can be such a valuable tool to stay connected to what is truly important to you</span></p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">There is so much pressure these days on athletes to perform</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">Luke talked about some harrowing examples of players he knew in rugby who had committed suicide as a result of the a