Griffin Canning reveals how one book helped him rebound to become emerging Mets starter

Mets pitcher Griffin Canning takes aim at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.Q: The book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle has impacted you.A: I read it in 2023.I wish I could go back and read it for the first time, but I think I’m realizing so much of things are just circumstantial.

For whatever reason, at the time in my life when I read it, I was injured (back) and had more free time than I had ever had before in my life.I was 25, 26 years old, still trying to figure out who I was.

I grew up Catholic, but kind of got away from religion, I guess, and kind of went down the spiritual path.It felt like every single word I read just kind of resonated with me.

That’s kind of what he writes in the book is like, “Nothing I’m writing is nothing that you don’t already know within you.”Q: What resonated with you specifically?A: It’s being in the present moment.Every day that I would pitch, I would read a chapter of the book, and just kind of pick out some passages that resonated with me, and they’re more like “I am” statements.

I’d be like: I am present in the moment, focused on the task at hand.I felt like it kind of took some pressure off myself.

Got me in the best head space I’ve ever been in in my life, on the field and off the field.Your mind is such a powerful tool that you have, but I don’t think people realize how lost in thought continuously we are.

You have this inner dialogue going on in your head, and it can be pretty detrimental to people.So I think it was about just kind of recognizing when you’re lost in thought.

It talks about as soon as you recognize that you’re like thinking, and you come into the present moment.Q: You picked up that book because of what you were going through with your back?A: I was hurt and not playing baseball for the first time in a long time.I want to be known as a baseball player, that’s my identity to a certain degree, but I kind of learned you got to have some hobbies and be ab...