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Simone Biles Says She's Working On 'Mindfulness' After Exiting Women's Gymnastics Team Event

Posted on 07/27/2021 1:09:25 PM PDT by jroehl

It took me 3 hours to finally hear this on a replay of a news conference on Fox news. How many Freeper's have dramatically altered their life to work on mindfulness? Am I uniquely naïve for wondering this?


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1 posted on 07/27/2021 1:09:25 PM PDT by jroehl
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Right now she’s in spin and damage control.


2 posted on 07/27/2021 1:11:59 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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So did she drop out of the individual events or just the team events?


3 posted on 07/27/2021 1:12:56 PM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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Let's see... "...The study found that mindfulness meditators had worse physical and mental health than non-meditators, including higher levels of pain, headaches, stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia and acute illness."

(https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/britton/sites/britton-lab/files/images/Britton_2019_Can%20mindfulness%20be%20too%20much%20of%20a%20good%20thing.pdf)

Well, shoot, sounds like a winning plan to me!
4 posted on 07/27/2021 1:13:16 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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She was very unprofessional, IMO.


5 posted on 07/27/2021 1:13:16 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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Nobody cares.


6 posted on 07/27/2021 1:13:47 PM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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I’m a man so I can’t really understand stopping what Iove to work on “mindfullness”. Sounds woke as hell.


7 posted on 07/27/2021 1:14:07 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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First thing I thought when the basketball team lost was they threw the game on purpose.....when I heard this I thought the same thing.....is it just minorities protesting in a new way, by losing on purpose or am I just paranoid like I think I am?


8 posted on 07/27/2021 1:14:11 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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All of it....she’s out I do believe


9 posted on 07/27/2021 1:14:54 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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Wouldn't focusing on "mindfulness" be something like doing it for the team even when she wasn't feeling it?

Maybe she can work on her "positivity" and her "brand" next. - said with either vocal fry or vocal uptick or both...

10 posted on 07/27/2021 1:15:53 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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I’m not watching the Olympics, but if she’s not up to competing for personal reasons, I think she is being reasonable. It’s not often that somebody is willing to give up a possible gold medal to stay mentally healthy. It’s commendable, imo.


11 posted on 07/27/2021 1:16:02 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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She shouldn’t be allowed to compete for the individual events when she quit on her team. She doesn’t deserve it.


12 posted on 07/27/2021 1:16:42 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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Exactly right....

Going forward, I want to pay attention to those athletes who want to be there and represent their country proudly.

The teenage girl from Alaska, Lydia Jacoby that won a gold in the 100m breaststroke, it was a huge upset and she was the first person from Alaska to win a gold in any swimming event....

Her home town in Seward had a watch party and went crazy as she same from behind and won...

At the medal ceremony her parents were on the screen, standing with hand over heart a tear or two coming down, that is a good story....not someone struggling mentally with being the best in the world....


13 posted on 07/27/2021 1:16:59 PM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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No one put a gun to her head and forced her to take part in the Olympics..she decided to do it..two weeks ago when she qualified she was happy as a clam, because she was kicking butt and in first place..but since she stumbled at the games,s he needed a way out and came up with the “Mental issues” BS..


14 posted on 07/27/2021 1:17:00 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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What is mindfulness?


15 posted on 07/27/2021 1:17:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Jonty30
I’m not watching the Olympics, but if she’s not up to competing for personal reasons, I think she is being reasonable. It’s not often that somebody is willing to give up a possible gold medal to stay mentally healthy. It’s commendable, imo.

So she quits on her team but she can compete for her own glory? Absolutely selfish.

16 posted on 07/27/2021 1:18:04 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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Simone’s pretty smart. I think she just decided she didn’t want a complete trainwreck to be remembered as her last Olympics.


17 posted on 07/27/2021 1:18:12 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: BenLurkin

Another word for meditation.


18 posted on 07/27/2021 1:18:35 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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“What is mindfulness?”

Something one would say if she “doesn’t have her mind right.”

Well, DUH!!


19 posted on 07/27/2021 1:19:09 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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I wait with bated breath for her book, blaming white supremacy, to come out.


20 posted on 07/27/2021 1:19:23 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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