#008 - Balancing Punches and Peace: Boxing Meets Meditation
Fun Spicy10 Nov 2024

#008 - Balancing Punches and Peace: Boxing Meets Meditation

Have you ever sat by yourself and done nothing? It’s so easy to be consumed by the external world of deadlines, relationships, and media while forgetting to check in with yourself and actually seeing how you’re REALLY doing.

Meditation or mindfulness is a tool that helps you with that. People tend to think of meditation as a way to be calm. That’s one aspect of it but the greater part of this process is witnessed through the changes you go through as a person.

Today’s episode feature Joey, a professional boxer who credits meditation for changing his life. We discuss silent 10 day retreats, the benefits of meditation, and finding balance between meditation and his professional boxing career.

So let’s get right into it!

(00:01:10) Discipline

(00:02:58) Intro to Vipassana

(00:04:28) Meditation Retreat Structure

(00:05:51) First Retreat

(00:10:46) Meditation and Progress

(00:17:02) Affect of Meditation on Life

(00:19:57) Advice for the 10 Day Retreat

(00:22:58) Meditation and Boxing

(00:27:43) Path of Boxing

(00:31:19) Finding Creativity in Boxing

(00:33:59) Boxing and Fear

(00:37:38) What do You Want out of Life?

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