<p>When <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-sky" target="_blank" >Sky</a> forward Maddy Westbeld was a junior at Notre Dame, she started working with a mind coach, who turned her on to the importance of being centered and present.</p><p>Meditation became a morning practice. Still half asleep, she'd make her coffee, then sit down to meditate.</p><p>"I would always wait until I could feel my heartbeat, and then I would center the idea of: how do I feel, how am I feeling right now," she told the Sun-Times. "And then things would come to the surface, different conversations, different stresses, different joys.