Thursday 18 July 2013

Mindful Car Parking

So Legoland on the hottest day of the year was my daughter’s idea of a fun day out just for me and my granddaughter—with millions of other people there who had the free entry tokens, coach-loads of them! 
And it was fun and we did enjoy ourselves, until at the end of the day, I realized the fatal mistake of not having made a note of where we had parked the car. Not very Mindful. So I was able to be Mindful then, noticing all my catastrophising thoughts and seeing the reactions of Romily who variously in the space of seconds, went from very upbeat and positive to tear-shuddering cries of despair that we would never find the car and we’d have to walk home (60 miles). 
Slowly and Mindfully we reconstructed our memory of arriving and bit by bit together we found the little Smart car and boy was I glad! Needless to say I now have an app for finding your car in a car park—so all I have to do is be Mindful enough to remember to use it!

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