Hooping

Making a hula hoop in class is one of the best activities I have done for school since... FOREVER!!! I thought that it was very interesting to see how easy one can be made, exciting to decorate it, and enlightening to hear all the therapeutic uses for the hula hoop. I think that it would be fun to recreate hula hoops in this fashion again in the future with children with behavior problems (to teach them what they can and cannot control) as well as women who are in need so some therapy while burning some extra calories ;). I found a website, http://www.betterthinking-betterlife.com/hulahoop.htm, in which I found a good list of what is inside of the hoop, and what is outside....
INSIDE

• Your body
• Your thoughts
• Your actions
• Your opinions
• Your values
• Your dreams
• Your wishes

OUTSIDE

• EVERYTHING ELSE!
• other people
• other people's thoughts
• other people's actions 
• the weather
• the current sad state of health insurance in the US  *grins*
• etc, etc, etc