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Mindfulness Morning 1:
What's Around Me.m4aWhat's Around Me
Discussion
How often do you feel like you're going and going and you're unaware of the things that are happening around you? This is so common. Talk with your classmates and your teacher about how you can begin to become more mindful of the things that are going on around you. Maybe putting your phone down while you're walking, taking a walk and labeling the things you see, maybe taking a break in between your class transitions and labeling things in front of you? What did you come up with? Report back next week and see if you are noticing what is going on around you - this includes the people around you and reading their body language and facial expressions.
Mindfulness Morning 2:
Body Scan.m4aBody Scan
Discussion
Stress and Anxiety can affect our mind and bodies. Two of the most common ways include headaches and stomach pain. Have you ever felt a stomach ache or headache and you couldn't figure out what that was? How often are you "checking in with your body"? Let's take a few times maybe during class transitions and shake our body out, wiggle our fingers, wiggle our toes, jump up and down... notice how your body feels after these movements! Share with your class.
Mindfulness Morning 3:
Hot Air Balloon Reflection.m4aHot Air Balloon
Discussion
We just practiced a "pretend scenario". How did that feel? Was it hard to come up with, without being in an actual hot air balloon? Discuss with your classmates and your teacher ways that you could expand your imagination - using verbs and new adjectives. Share with your class.
Mindfulness Morning 4:
Noticing Your Senses.m4aNoticing Your Senses
Discussion
Are you able to list your five senses? Do you often check in on them? Did you know that one of the best grounding tools for anxiety includes becoming aware of your five senses? What was the hardest sense to notice during our mindfulness morning for you? Can you help your classmates out and share some things that you noticed that may have been hard for a classmate? Share with your teacher and classmates.
Mindfulness Morning 5:
What I Can Feel.m4aWhat I Can Feel
Discussion
Noticing our body is so important! We noticed what we can physically feel. How about emotionally? Are you able to list 4-5 emotions? (Teacher's please Google Emotional Wheel and review). Can you now add 3-4 new emotions to your vocabulary? Let's focus on our core emotions at the end of the wheel. Let's try to begin labeling our core emotions when we feel them so we can address our feelings and come up with positive solutions. What are some powerful feelings on the wheel that you did not think of before? Share with your teacher and classmates.
Mindfulness Morning 6:
I Can See The Rainbow.m4aI Can See The Rainbow
Discussion
Have you heard of "black and white thinking"? This means that something is always ALL GOOD OR ALL BAD. Many times when our emotions are overwhelming it clouds our judgement and the way we see things and we perceive things to be good or bad, when really they can be BOTH. Think of an experience you had where you believed something was all good or all bad. Notice how you reacted. Could there have been a "silver lining"(parts that were good). Maybe you learned something afterwards from that event. This can be very personal - let's take a moment to think to ourselves and write it down in a journal. I hope that you are able to find the "silver lining" in all events.
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