Jayne Storey – The Strength in Stillness – How Mindfulness can help us navigate this current situation #116

<p>It is great to welcome back a good friend of the Brain Booster Jayne Storey.</p> <p>Jayne is a coach of meditation and tai chi with over thirty years of experience at the coal face of actual one to one work.</p> <p>With the current challenges we are all facing, we are going to need something to ‘hold’ on to which will help us navigate through the current storms and steer us into calmer waters.</p> <p>We had a great chat and Jayne’s wisdom will shine through and give you so much valuable information to consider not just for your golf but for your life in general.</p> <p>We talk about the need to first of all NOTICE</p> <p>To notice what is actually happening with your mind. The habitual patterns and habits your mind continually throws up.</p> <p>Rather than always trying to change what we are thinking we need to first of all notice what is ACTUALLY happening.</p> <p>It is the very opposite of what most of us do.</p> <p>How our current mode of thinking tends to activate our STRESS response and what we can actually do about it.</p> <p>The need to have a coach or mentor.</p> <p>Even though Jayne has been studying these ancient disciplines for over thirty years she still works with a teacher.</p> <p>We all need mentors</p> <p>Now perhaps more than ever</p> <p>We need someone to be a NEUTRAL sounding board</p> <p>To help us see our own patterns</p> <p>How our body is the ‘gateway to the present moment’</p> <p>How to embrace ‘walking meditation’</p> <p>How we can take the opportunity in this moment to develop skills that will help your game when things get back to normal</p> <p>The difference between ‘thinking’ about the body and actually ‘being with the body’</p> <p>How to create the conditions for ‘The Zone’</p> <p>The benefits of gratitude</p> <p>Stop ‘thinking’ and ‘come to your senses’</p> <p>How this allows us to tune in to the questions the golf course is asking of us</p> <p>Being aware of the breath</p> <p>The utterly simplistic notion of tuning in with breath</p> <p>How you can ‘park your mind’ with the brea