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This narrative study explored experiences of 7 successful young professional baseball players as they interacted with the ideas and practices of mindfulness presented in Yoga and mindfulness-acceptance-commitment (MAC) classes. Individuals who learned mindfulness practices in off-season instructional programs and classes during the season were interviewed to gain insight into how mindfulness practices were interpreted and utilized in training and competition. Three-dimensional space narrative analysis was applied to data collected from semistructured episodic interviews to highlight the relationships between subjective experience, behavior. environmental conditions, and external events. Individual narratives were restoried in light of current neuroscientific findings. Research results indicated that mindfulness practices appeared to support enhanced self-regulation skills and performance, dynamic balance of arousal and relaxation, positive mental states, diminished anxiety, increased confidence and self-efficacy, and heightened resilience to competitive stress
