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How Did You Two Meet?
You and Your Hoop: A Unique and Extraordinary Love Story
You and Your Hoop: A Unique and Extraordinary Love Story
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Many of us can easily make a division between when we were not yet a hooper and when we became one.
There was “before the hoop” and “after.“
From the moment you begin to identify yourself as a “hooper,” it can feel much like the first time you fall in love.
Some days it seems like your hoop is all you can think and talk about. There is a familiar excitement in the air, a
renewed optimism about your life and its possibilities. And it is all happening so fast!
meaningful insight about the desires and emotions that -- just beneath the surface and whether you aware of
them or not-- continue to fuel, motivate, and direct the course of your hooping.
Here's an exercise you can do quickly and easily to bring you back to that moment, no matter how far you think
you've come, and can help you remember the agreement you two made (it was more than love-at-first-sight!)
in that instant.
How to Start. Get a quiet space, paper and pen ready. Begin this journaling exercise by mentally recalling the
circumstances surrounding your first encounter(s) with the hoop. There may be more than one that sticks out in
your mind. For each, draw a circle on the blank page and, inside it, write the most immediate elements involved -
a person, a place, event, a feeling, a longing.... anything.
Keep Going. Now outside each circle, continue writing whatever comes to your mind, from all of the things that
were happening in your life at the time to your relationship with what you wrote down in the middle of the circle.
Draw arrows, or some other connecting mark, to show the path of your associations. Trace backward from those
moments through what led up to each of them, as far as you care to go.
Think of it as couple's therapy for you and your hoop. When you feel done, remember to summarize the
thoughts you wrote down in a sentence or a few words somewhere on the page. Then, if you feel so led, pick up
your hoop. Put those thoughts into motion and bring the truth of those memories into your present.
Feel wary? I met the hoop the same day I met my husband. Now we're both having a second honeymoon! Don't
be intimated by the emotions that surround the beginning of your hoopdance -- embrace and enfold them into
your practice. They have more to tell you than you think.
There was “before the hoop” and “after.“
From the moment you begin to identify yourself as a “hooper,” it can feel much like the first time you fall in love.
Some days it seems like your hoop is all you can think and talk about. There is a familiar excitement in the air, a
renewed optimism about your life and its possibilities. And it is all happening so fast!
meaningful insight about the desires and emotions that -- just beneath the surface and whether you aware of
them or not-- continue to fuel, motivate, and direct the course of your hooping.
Here's an exercise you can do quickly and easily to bring you back to that moment, no matter how far you think
you've come, and can help you remember the agreement you two made (it was more than love-at-first-sight!)
in that instant.
How to Start. Get a quiet space, paper and pen ready. Begin this journaling exercise by mentally recalling the
circumstances surrounding your first encounter(s) with the hoop. There may be more than one that sticks out in
your mind. For each, draw a circle on the blank page and, inside it, write the most immediate elements involved -
a person, a place, event, a feeling, a longing.... anything.
Keep Going. Now outside each circle, continue writing whatever comes to your mind, from all of the things that
were happening in your life at the time to your relationship with what you wrote down in the middle of the circle.
Draw arrows, or some other connecting mark, to show the path of your associations. Trace backward from those
moments through what led up to each of them, as far as you care to go.
Think of it as couple's therapy for you and your hoop. When you feel done, remember to summarize the
thoughts you wrote down in a sentence or a few words somewhere on the page. Then, if you feel so led, pick up
your hoop. Put those thoughts into motion and bring the truth of those memories into your present.
Feel wary? I met the hoop the same day I met my husband. Now we're both having a second honeymoon! Don't
be intimated by the emotions that surround the beginning of your hoopdance -- embrace and enfold them into
your practice. They have more to tell you than you think.
In retrospect, our greatest loves - people, places, activities - seem to have come
into our lives at just the right moment. But what may have appeared to be random as
it was happening, we often realize later, was anything but chance. The events
leading up to the moment that you fell in love with hooping can reveal much about
what brought the hoop into your life, what called you to it and what attracted it to you.
The day you met the hoop, you began an intense and personal relationship. The
circumstances surrounding that day, and that moment, can provide you with
into our lives at just the right moment. But what may have appeared to be random as
it was happening, we often realize later, was anything but chance. The events
leading up to the moment that you fell in love with hooping can reveal much about
what brought the hoop into your life, what called you to it and what attracted it to you.
The day you met the hoop, you began an intense and personal relationship. The
circumstances surrounding that day, and that moment, can provide you with
