Optimize Mental Health, Flow and Sports Performance. With Dr. Alex Auerbach

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Health & Fitness

4.2 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dr. Alex Auerbach is a Sports Psychologist and Director of Wellness and Development for the basketball team, Toronto Raptors. Before working with the Raptors, he was the Director of Clinical and Sports Psychology for the University of Arizona. He’s a huge fan of Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy —also called ACT — for optimizing both the performance and mental health of athletes. He works with athletes on self-awareness, and emotional regulation and helps them understand and even name and ground their often difficult feelings. Mindfulness is a core pillar in all his work. He shares some of the great research that’s been done suggesting that mindfulness can lead to optimal performance and, possibly, to the all-important flow state. There are so many stressors in the life of a professional athlete — and these tools are a great way to help manage stress and tension as well as being more resilient to the ups and downs that are a natural part of life. Unlock 30 days of Meditation Studio for free at choosemuse.com/meditationstudio. Transform your brain's potential with 15% of Muse. Use code UNTANGLE15 at checkout or visit choosemuse.com/UNTANGLE15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.1	Welcome to Untangle. I'm Patricia Carpice.
1:06.3	In today's encore episode, I interviewed Dr. Alex Auerbach, a sports psychologist and director of
1:12.5	wellness and development for the Toronto Raptors, a basketball team from Canada. Before working
1:18.9	with the Raptors, he was the director of clinical and sports psychology for the University of
1:23.3	Arizona. He is a huge fan of mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy, also called
1:30.3	Act, for optimizing the performance and mental health of athletes. He works with them to improve
1:37.1	their self-awareness and emotional regulation and helps them understand and even name and ground
1:43.1	their often difficult and challenging feelings.
1:46.0	He shares some of the great research that he's done, suggesting that mindfulness can lead to optimal performance and possibly to the all-important flow state.
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