Mindfulness Update Week Four
Hello Parents! On Tuesday, we practiced noticing our thoughts. So often we can be so distracted by our thinking mind that it can make it difficult for us to focus. During our mindful breathing the students practiced noticing when their minds wandered to thoughts of the past or to the future. I explained this moment of noticing is a mindful moment, a moment of awareness. As the students gain a greater understanding of how their attention works, they’ll have a greater capacity to direct and sustain it on things like schoolwork, directions or whatever it is they need to focus on.
On Thursday, we practiced mindful seeing. I challenged the students to look around them and notice something in their room they’d never seen before. This is fun activity and a way of “playing attention”. As we move through our lessons, we continue to focus on all the senses to develop greater self-awareness.
As a reminder, if you’d like to practice mindfulness with your student, ask your teacher about signing up for Inner Explorer (it’s free!) and is a great way for you to learn more about mindfulness and what your student is learning. You can receive a link to the audio tracks the students listen to so you can practice together at home.
Next Wednesday October 19th, I hope you can join me for my Parent Mindfulness Talk. This will be an opportunity for you to learn what mindfulness is, how the program is run, the science behind mindfulness and how you can practice it at home if that’s something you’re interested in.
One final note, on October 27th, learn about using mindful games to cultivate mindfulness within your family. Susan Kaiser Greenland, best-selling author of The Mindful Child will be presenting at Groves High School in Birmingham on her new book Mindful Games. If you’re interested, you can register here: http://www.mc4me.org/events. To contact me, email me at [email protected].
Hello Parents! On Tuesday, we practiced noticing our thoughts. So often we can be so distracted by our thinking mind that it can make it difficult for us to focus. During our mindful breathing the students practiced noticing when their minds wandered to thoughts of the past or to the future. I explained this moment of noticing is a mindful moment, a moment of awareness. As the students gain a greater understanding of how their attention works, they’ll have a greater capacity to direct and sustain it on things like schoolwork, directions or whatever it is they need to focus on.
On Thursday, we practiced mindful seeing. I challenged the students to look around them and notice something in their room they’d never seen before. This is fun activity and a way of “playing attention”. As we move through our lessons, we continue to focus on all the senses to develop greater self-awareness.
As a reminder, if you’d like to practice mindfulness with your student, ask your teacher about signing up for Inner Explorer (it’s free!) and is a great way for you to learn more about mindfulness and what your student is learning. You can receive a link to the audio tracks the students listen to so you can practice together at home.
Next Wednesday October 19th, I hope you can join me for my Parent Mindfulness Talk. This will be an opportunity for you to learn what mindfulness is, how the program is run, the science behind mindfulness and how you can practice it at home if that’s something you’re interested in.
One final note, on October 27th, learn about using mindful games to cultivate mindfulness within your family. Susan Kaiser Greenland, best-selling author of The Mindful Child will be presenting at Groves High School in Birmingham on her new book Mindful Games. If you’re interested, you can register here: http://www.mc4me.org/events. To contact me, email me at [email protected].