Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Alright everybody, this is Chris from the ReWired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on this solution and as you can see I have a guest right here. Go ahead and introduce yourself. I am Dilly from Dillian Dad. Yeah so okay you want to plug your channel real quick? Make sure to go subscribe to Dillian Dad and like every video. Yeah so being Dillian we have another channel if you want to check it out. I'll put a link up in the info card up over here. Alright and we do a bunch of video games, he builds Legos and all sorts of fun stuff. But anyways as you saw from that video, gamer rage is a huge deal. If any of you watched my last video about my professional gaming career you know that I'm a big gamer. Dillian's a big gamer too. And this video is going to talk about a video game, mindfulness, meditation and me and Dillian are going to teach you. So this is important, this isn't just for parents out there or just gamers, it's kind of for both and it broadens out but I want to start individualizing these videos and show you how easy these different practices can be so you don't rage out like we just saw. So there's a reason why professional athletes meditate okay? So let's take football players for example. If they bring the anger from the last play into the next play, it tilts them out of proportion. So they might be angry and they can't concentrate, they can't focus, they can't do the thing that they're best at which is play football. This is something that happens in video games too. So if you're a parent out there and you have a child who gets frustrated playing video games, we're going to teach you this meditation in between rounds of how to bring yourself back down, calm yourself and bring yourself back into the moment. So real quick Dylan, drop some knowledge on these folks. What is mindfulness? Noticing what's happening right now. Yes, so mindfulness is noticing what's happening right now. So what we're doing is is that we're staying present in the moment. So I'll walk you through it a little bit more. We're about to hop over and play some video games to show you the actual practice. But after the round is over, we bring ourselves right back into the moment. Okay? So you ready to go play some Call of Duty? Yeah. All right, let's do this. We've got everybody. We're back. We're playing some Call of Duty and we're going to be practicing a little bit of mindfulness. All right. So basically what we're going to be doing, and this is going to help us reset and Dylan brought up some really good points too. We can actually be mindful while we're in the middle of a round as well. So what that means is if we notice ourselves getting frustrated or not being able to take out an opponent, ooh, good shot. Then we could take a few breaths and just bring ourselves back into the moment. Yeah, I'm trying to do it. Ooh, that mindfulness is already paying off, son. Oh. Oh, look at this guy. Why? Yeah, but especially parents out there and any other gaming parents out there, you know, gaming is supposed to be a fun activity. Well, any sport really, you know what I mean? So we want to make sure that we're teaching ourselves as well as our children how to manage our emotions. One of the best parts about mindfulness is that it improves the part of the brain responsible for emotional regulation. Like I remember when Dylan was a baby or his cousin, we'd be playing candy land and it would turn into a nightmare, you know? So it's practices like this that help bring us back into the moment and keep us nice and grounded. And by the way, don't forget, head over and check out Dylan and Dad's gaming channel. We're trying to hit about 600 subscribers, so if you guys could do that, me and Dylan would really appreciate it. And especially for kids watching YouTube, you know? It's a great channel for kids. Oh, okay. Three breaths. Wait, pause. All right, let's go. So when doing this, in games like Call of Duty, you can respawn immediately or you can give it a second. So Dylan, let's try to be mindful of the respawn and not jump in so quick. Nice. Oh, oh, okay. Don't rejoin. Okay, just three breaths. All right. Are you noticing any thoughts popping up while you're trying to breathe? No. And just what are you focusing on when you breathe? By breath. Your breath? What part of your breath? How are stomach moves? How your stomach moves in and out? All right, cool. So yeah, those of you who are unfamiliar with mindful breathing techniques, you just want to kind of hone in on whatever, wherever the breath is the strongest, Dylan pays attention to his stomach, how it comes up and down as you breathe. Oh, wow. All right, you can also focus on the flow of air through your nose or through your mouth. Uh-oh. You better back up. Oh, that was not a mindful grenade toss. Nice shot. By the way, I don't know if you guys are paying attention, but Dylan's never played this good in his life, so maybe practicing mindfulness regularly really does improve your game. This is living proof right here. And just keeping nice and calm and mellow the whole time. Yeah. And those of you gamers out there who really you sound and everything like that, mindfulness helps you with that too. It helps you stay focused on which direction they're coming from, what you're hearing, um, in Call of Duty, you can hear when, you know, the air drops are coming, nice shot. But yeah, maybe I will do another video. So make sure you subscribe. We'll do another video on mindful listening. Okay. Three breaths. All right, you guys now is Daddy's turn. And by the way, too, this isn't just for kids. Like I'm 32 years old and I got to practice mindfulness while I'm gaming too. Ah, because trust I can get really raised while playing too. Oh no. Oh, okay. Breathe with me. All right. And what I just noticed too, and games like this where they have to kill cam, that's a good time to practice mindfulness too because some of us, we just want to rush through the kill cam because we get so angry seeing how another person killed us. So that's a good way to practice is notice how upset you're getting. Yeah. Well, you could also take a sample on how to try to kill them. Mm hmm. And another fun fact. Okay. Mindfulness is called, it's also known as being in the zone. All right, a few breaths. All right, let's go. Oh. All right, Dylan, your turn. Oh, okay. You're not being mindful. Okay. See notice that urge to just want to jump, jump straight in, take a pause. And in a fast paced game like this, we call it duty where you respawn. Like right now we're playing team deathmatch. And what we'll start doing, Dylan, is when we die, we'll respawn, but we'll make sure that we're focusing on our breath as we're moving forward. Okay. And one thing about mindfulness practice too is that it's all about repetition more than it is duration. Okay. Because the idea behind it is that we want to get to a place where we're just doing this automatically. We've trained this habit where we're just constantly bringing ourselves back into the now, back into the now. Oh. Oh. Oh, we tied. All right, everybody. Well, we hope you enjoyed that video. It's a video game meditation. So any of you gamers out there or any of you parents out there, we have children and you're doing some gaming. Like as a parent, you can just sit next to them and just remind them to be mindful. You'll start to see that they get a lot less frustrated. So if you like this video, if you like me or Dylan or both to do more videos about mindfulness and just everyday activities, make sure that you leave a thumbs up and I'll put a comment down below that you can reply to and let us know if there's anything else where you want to learn how you could be more mindful in those situations to calm yourself down. All right. But again, make sure you go and check out our channel, Dylan and dad, right? Okay. Check out Dylan and dad. It's up in the info card. And if you're wondering who made these beautiful pictures of myself and Dylan above our head, it was my wonderful girlfriend, Tristan. You can follow her on Instagram at tag.doodles. I'll put it in the description down below. But anyways, if you like mental health videos and you want to improve your mental emotional well-being, make sure you click the subscribe button, come back, a ton of videos, okay? But thanks so much for watching. We love your faces and we'll see you next time.