Mindfulness is a practice I use with my students to help them stay calm and cope with all new challenges and stresses that middle school brings. Middle School can be a wild place sometimes everyone just a needs to take a breath!
I will be introducing 5 techniques: Mindfulness of Sounds, Mindfulness of Breath, Mindfulness of Body, Mindfulness of Thoughts, and Mindfulness of Emotions. We will be working on paying attention to these as a way to improve focus and help students with their classes, their activities. There is a ton written about mindfulness it is being used in schools, at companies, and even NFL teams to help people in high stress environments.
I plan to start most of our class periods with a quick minute or two of Mindfulness each day. My hope is that each student will gain something from these techniques or at least just enjoy a minute of quiet. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about Mindfulness.
Links:
This is an article introducing Mindfulness and its: Link
Mindful Schools has a great section of resources: Link
The Ringer recently wrote about NFL teams using Mindfulness with their players: Link
I will be introducing 5 techniques: Mindfulness of Sounds, Mindfulness of Breath, Mindfulness of Body, Mindfulness of Thoughts, and Mindfulness of Emotions. We will be working on paying attention to these as a way to improve focus and help students with their classes, their activities. There is a ton written about mindfulness it is being used in schools, at companies, and even NFL teams to help people in high stress environments.
I plan to start most of our class periods with a quick minute or two of Mindfulness each day. My hope is that each student will gain something from these techniques or at least just enjoy a minute of quiet. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about Mindfulness.
Links:
This is an article introducing Mindfulness and its: Link
Mindful Schools has a great section of resources: Link
The Ringer recently wrote about NFL teams using Mindfulness with their players: Link