Five-minute mindfulness practices helped students in our Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work course feel more focused, calm, and kind.
Long Island Press: The Calm Schools Initiative Gives Free Mindfulness Training Tools To Teachers
Our minds play a crucial role in our psychological and physical well-being. One of the most important ways to calm our minds is to be present in the here and now, otherwise known as mindfulness.
USA Today: What is mindfulness? Try this meditation to calm down and be present
What is mindfulness? Try this meditation to calm down and be present
Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to ...
Mindfulness may help reduce psychological pain Of course, while the above physiological benefits of mindfulness are compelling, we needn’t forget that mindfulness also impacts our psychological well-being, which, in turn, affects physical health. In fact, it’s quite likely that these changes have synergistic effects on one another.
Relational mindfulness practices help students cultivate awareness and connect with each other to facilitate learning and belonging.
How to Teach Mindfulness in a More Social Way - Greater Good
Here's what we can learn from mindfulness programs that have aimed to serve Indigenous communities.
Still, the term “mindfulness” is likely to raise more than a few questions. For starters: What, exactly, is it? “Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment awareness,” writes Kabat-Zinn in his groundbreaking book Full Catastrophe Living. “It is cultivated by purposefully paying attention to things we ordinarily never give a moment’s thought to. It is a systematic approach to ...