MW School Counselor - Mindfulness at home

Mindfulness at home

Click a link to the right 👉 or scroll down 👇 to find some cool mindfulness resources!

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Virtual Calming Room: Through guidance lessons and mindful mornings, students learn different calming strategies. Many classrooms have calm corners or students know that they can come to the office for a calm down break or to use a few of the strategies in a space that is quite and away from others. This Virtual calming room has a variety of strategies to use at home, many are in forms of videos and guided relaxation. This virtual room will be posted in the Guidance Google Classroom as well so students can access on their own!

Mind Yeti : "...provides mindfulness instruction and meditative scripts for a variety of moods and needs. The app begins with a tutorial that introduces the concept of the Mind Yeti. ... Users can also pick to focus on several "powers," or skills, that are essential to the foundations of meditative practice." Students are familiar with this site and K-5 have used "sound change" clip to practice focusing on our sense of hearing to help us focus.

Reboot : Mindful products and solutions for healthier brains. Reboot has made their website and daily mindful minutes accessible to all students and educators during this time away from school. Reboot expresses the importance of practicing mindfulness especially during this time of uncertainty and wanted to do their part to help bring mindfulness to as many students as they can.

With the following information, students will be able to login daily for a new 3-minute mindful moment audio session. JUST PRESS PLAY!

Username: inhale@thisisreboot.com Password: justbreathe

Cosmic Kids Yoga : Teaches mindfulness for kids through yoga and a series of movements that go at an appropriate pace to keep your child engaged. Cosmic kids Yoga videos promote self-regulation, focus and empathy - all skills that are shown to be beneficial in shaping children into successful adults. You can also subscribe to the Cosmic kids yoga channel by clicking HERE

Do-it-yourself 👇

Glitter Jar Mindful Moment

An activity we have done in guidance class and a tool in some of the calm corners are glitter jars. The glitter in the jar represents your thoughts and feelings. When the glitter is swirling around in the jar it represents your mind when you have strong feelings or lots of thoughts in your head. Strong feelings and too many thoughts at once can create stress in your body and shallow quick breathing. It’s hard to focus. You may react quickly or say something without thinking. It's easy to start blaming and judging yourself or others. You might even start feeling tension in your body.Use the video below and practice to see what happens to your mind and body when you sit quietly for a minute and breatheslowly, inhaling and exhaling through your nose. If a new thought comes to your mind and you notice it, simply go back to focusing on your breathing. Watch the glitter in the jar, it will start to slow down and calmly fall to the bottom.The water in the jar becomes clearer as the glitter rests at the bottom of the jar. Notice if there is a change in your body and in your mind. This is a great daily practice to train your brain, just like exercising trains your muscles!

Create your own breathing technique

Lazy 8 Breathing Copy.mp4

Calm your worry and anxiety using your senses - Below are a few ways to use your senses to feel grounded, safe, and more comfortable.

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