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Hank DeGroat

YOU WERE BORN TO THRIVE - PAIN AND PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS SOLVED

POD – EVERDAY MINDFULNESS

It all clicked one day.  I went from a moment of FRUSTRATING PARENTING to realizing the everyday benefits of my daily practice.  In this quick video I share how mindfulness helped a frustrated Dad and upset little boy come together and avoid a tragic outcome.

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Daily mindfulness practice, better parenting.

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There was a moment in my life

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when all of my diligency in my practice

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of the day really came

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and spoke to me as, WOW!

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okay, I get it.

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this is some powerful stuff.

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And it happened on this beautiful spring day

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and I was taking my

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son to his first soccer –

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Travel Team Soccer tryout

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Here’s my little 8-year-old boy

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he’s all pumped up under his tryout

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And I told him an

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hour before, to get all of this stuff ready.

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So, of course, we’re running a little bit late

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you got to pick somebody up, we jumped into the car

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and I asked him, “Do you have your soccer ball?”

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Then he says, “No.”

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So, I take a deep breath get little

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stern, he goes back inside,

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gets his bag, comes back in.

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We’re driving down the road and I asked him,

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“Do you have you goalie gloves? Are they in your bag?”

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And he says, “No.”

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So now you can imagine as a parent

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we’ve all been there, right?

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And I was getting a little

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wound up, I started to get little stressed

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so I spin it around pull it in the driveway,

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and he runs in and he gets back and

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I’m frustrated as I should be because now I got to

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go thorugh all this traffic.

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And we’re going to be late darrr…

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I told him he had to do this

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and we’re driving and I look and

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I can see, he’s little frustrated too.

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I’m frustrated. I know I’m frustrated

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and I have right to be frustrated.

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I told him, we wouldn’t be in this situation if it wasn’t for him.

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He knows better and he is frustrated

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for whole variety of reasons as well because a miscommunication

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and injustices.

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The bottom line: it didn’t matter how right either one of us was,

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it wasn’t what we needed to be,

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it wasn’t how I wanted the send

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my 8-year-old into his first Travel Team Soccer tryout.

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And it wasn’t the way he

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wanted to go into it.

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We stopped for moment and I said,

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I said, “Do you feel worried right now?”

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He said, “Yes”.

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I said, “Do you want to go place, do you feel like going and playing soccer right now?”

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He said, “No.”

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I said, “We do you say we put a stop that right now

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and we get ready to go have a great soccer tryout”

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He said, “Okay.”

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What’s your favorite song?

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I put on his favorite song

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driving down the road

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it’s a beautiful scene

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of an 8-year-old boy to put on the right song

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and the next thing you know, he’s smiling

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we’re both grooving. We’re picking up his buddy.

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Everyone is laughing and cheering

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by the time we get to the soccer tryout.

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And as I say, the rest is history.

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Practice Of the Day – Mindfulness without the monastery.

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www.FeelingLikeSuperman.com

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