MindBodySpace - What Does Meditation and Stress Management Have To Do With Performance? With Tom Klisiewicz Founder of Smart Health Wellness and Performance

What Does Meditation and Stress Management Have To Do With Performance? With Tom Klisiewicz Founder of Smart Health Wellness and Performance

01/12/24 • 27 min

Whether you’re a student, leader, musician, athlete, or parent, understanding your mind and body connection enhances performance both in your personal life and at work. My guest today is Tom Klisiewicz, CPTD, an educator and colleague, who has dedicated his career to teaching youth how to be resilient and perform at their best so that when inevitable downturns happen in life, they’ll have the tools to fall back on.

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Find out more about Tom: https://www.smarthwp.com/⁠

Guest, Tom Klisiewicz is the founder and president of Smart Health & Wellness Performance. He has dedicated his career to teaching youth practices that build resilience, strengthen mental health, and help achieve success. Tom hosts a podcast called "Raising Resilient Kids."

Host, Dr. Juna is a mom and physician passionate about sharing evidence-based wellness tips and fascinating topics like neuroscience and meditation.

In this episode of the MindBodySpace podcast, Dr. Juna interviews her friend and colleague Tom Klisiewicz about teaching mindfulness and meditation to youth. Listeners will learn how Tom first became interested in meditation, his personal meditation practice, and how mindfulness helps with resilience and performance. We also discuss Tom's new podcast focused on raising resilient kids as well as a large grant Tom recently secured to teach mindfulness in Illinois public schools.

Main Discussion Points:

How Tom first learned about meditation from studying successful athletes and business leaders (6:00)

The benefits Tom experienced from having a regular meditation practice (14:38)

Using performance as a "hook" to get kids interested in meditation (22:24)

How meditation changed Tom as a parent - helping him become more patient (24:03)

Overview of a grant Tom secured to train teachers to teach mindfulness practices to 25,000 students in Illinois public schools (26:01)

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For more Show notes and info ⁠CLICK HERE⁠

Find out more about Tom: https://www.smarthwp.com/⁠

Host, Dr. Juna is a mom and physician passionate about sharing evidence-based wellness tips and fascinating topics like neuroscience and meditation.

Main Discussion Points:

How Tom first learned about meditation from studying successful athletes and business leaders (6:00)

The benefits Tom experienced from having a regular meditation practice (14:38)

Using performance as a "hook" to get kids interested in meditation (22:24)

How meditation changed Tom as a parent - helping him become more patient (24:03)

Overview of a grant Tom secured to train teachers to teach mindfulness practices to 25,000 students in Illinois public schools (26:01)

Ask a question or suggest a topic for Dr. Juna or guests! HERE

Previous Episode

Why Healthy Habits Need To Start As Young As Possible: Primordial Prevention

Welcome to MindBodySpace Podcast 2024!

In this week's episode, Dr. Juna discusses the different types of disease prevention - tertiary, secondary, primary, and primordial. She explains what each type means, focusing especially on primordial prevention and the importance of establishing healthy habits from a very young age. Main discussion points: - Definitions of tertiary, secondary, primary, and primordial prevention - Starting healthy lifestyle habits early, especially in childhood, can have lifelong benefits - Healthy habits positively impact wellness, performance, energy levels, and happiness Next week’s guest is Tom Klisiewicz, CPTD, founder and president of Smart Health, Wellness and Performance. He is passionate about teaching kids tools for resilience and he's championing mind-body resilience programs for youth in Illinois!

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Next Episode

Why High Performers Meditate, How They Do It, and How You Can Too

Visualization Mental Practice And Quiz Inside This Episode. Why does meditation help high-performing athletes and performers boost their skills? We’ll cover different types of meditation and mental training techniques that can be used right before competition or performance to alleviate anxiety and negative thoughts.

There’s also a quiz inside to see how good you are at mentally visualization practices, a technique used by high performers.

If you haven’t already done so, listen to ⁠the last episode #120,⁠ when i talked to Tom Klisiewicz of Smart Health Wellness and Performance, about how performance is related to mental resilience. for better performance at sports, work, or school, we talked about how meditation is one way to boost our mental strength.

Show Notes HERE