I'm losing now, but I feel weightless and strangely free.

This moment is a gift.

I have nothing to prove.

I feel shameless.

I don't back down, but I also don't give in to my worst self.

Eric gives me the most perfect moment of my life.

The boxing ring may seem like the last place to find calmness and compassion.

However, it's precisely there where today's meditative story takes us.

Thomas Page MacB is a journalist who found answers to some of his most profound questions through fighting,

and along the way discovered what happens when you stop trying to win.

In this series, we blend immersive first-person stories with mindfulness prompts to help you recharge at any moment of the day.

I'm Rohan, and I'll be your guide for a meditative story. There's a real drama, a real intensity to those moments before a boxing match, isn't there?

The fighters waiting for their names to be called.

Waiting. Ready. Hyped.

Notice the level of energy in your body, whatever it is.

Any areas of vibration, areas of stillness.

Heat and cool.

Dropping any thoughts of elsewhere and trusting our instincts and our abilities.

Alert, here, ready to go. The body relaxed, the body breathing. Your senses

open, your mind open. Meeting the world. To ground myself in this moment, I bite down hard on my mouth guard.

Then when the roving spotlight finds me,

I make my way down the aisle toward the ring.

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