Paradoxes

1) The Paradox of Effortless Effort

With a quieted mind, athletes move intuitively from their center and experience hard work as being effortless

2) The Paradox of Action without Acting

When action is initiated by the still point of the athlete’s center rather than by the desires & fears of the ego-mind, the athlete may seem to witness another self (the intuitive self) carrying out skills

3) The Paradox of Unattached Success

To improve their chances of winning and performing well, athletes should give up their attachment to winning and performing well

Behavior Dualism (BD)

-is the view that “All physical doing must be preceded by thinking (Kretchmar, 2005, p. 50)

-tends to “compartmentalize thinking,” so that thinking & doing appear to be two separate things (Kretchmar, 2005, p. 50)