Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Maybe that's what Fleetwood Mac meant when they
sang; players only love you when they're playing. [Laughter]
TRIP: Well, you mentored 50 place-kickers who received Division
1 collegiate scholarships, that is amazing.
NICK GANCITANO: About 48, but yes. And really more
importantly than anything, and I didn't spend a lot of time really
developing their meditative skills, more importantly was just when
they kicked the ball, seeing the ball in if you would say my own
consciousness going through every time. By holding that
intention, that context, it makes it a reality for me who then tends
to interact with them, the so-called them, and in that state. But
again once that visual perception falls and lands in that stillness,
then in a sense we share the same consciousness, and so it's able to
really share that knowingness or that realization that I can do this
every time, that seed can be planted in that stillness. And this is
why it's important for a coach to have that sense of presence
within them, and in order to really direct or guide players into a
state of that zone without making them feel a sense of doership, or
a fear of making mistakes, which tends to be the primary Achilles
heel for athletes that are trying to make it in a higher level.
WIZARD: That's what I found in synchronicity that the doership
is gone, and when I share with other folks about synchronicity it
seems to be the common denominator; the doership is gone in the
stillness that's present.
NICK GANCIANO: Yes.
TRIP: So I think that you're a particularly useful, if you will,
teacher, because here you've been a football player of all things,
and a coach. And so clearly you've had a normal upbringing, or a
normal career whatever. I was just curious, what are the practical
benefits that have manifested in your life since you redirected your
attention inward?
NICK GANCITANO: Practical in regard to what specifically?
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