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When Keith Mitchell suffered a serious spinal injury on the playing field, his first response was: This is embarrassing.
Turns out that it was a whole lot more than embarrassing.
Mitchell became paralyzed for six months, then needed a great deal of therapy to even walk again. NFL participation was now out of reach.
As Mitchell put it: When you’re on your back, you’re open for everything. Even for yoga, which was definitely
a stretch for this
linebacker with a “gladiator”
mentality…
His therapist began instructing him in meditation. Mitchell
stated to HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont
Hill: My rehabilitation was very limited
[due to the delicate nature of the spinal injury], so
meditation changed my whole life.
Mitchell continues to devote a great deal of time and effort to yoga.
He now avidly passes on this wisdom to others. He proclaims: …it opened my mind to
so many dimensions that I’m still
learning on a daily basis and it’s really changed my
life. I’m so grateful.
Resources
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/02/keith-mitchell-injury_n_5076601.html
Copyright April 11, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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