Mindfulness
Tools for Supporting Mindful Minds
No Noise at Selfridges - Headspace on Kids
How Can Mindfulness Help Our Students?
Research over the past few decades has found that mindfulness training develops:
- Increased attention
- Increased executive function (working memory, planning, organization, and impulse control)
- Decreased ADHD behaviors—specifically hyperactivity and impulsivity
- Fewer conduct and anger management problems
- Increased emotional regulation
- Increased self-calming
- Increased social skills and social compliance
- Increased care for others
- Decreased negative affect, or emotions
- Decreased anxiety in general and text anxiety in particular
- Decreased depression
- Increased sense of calmness, relaxation, and self-acceptance
- Increased self-esteem
- Increased quality of sleep
Headspace- 10 minutes a day
Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
Headspace - How It Works
Headspace - 'Expectation' animation
Additional Mindfulness Resources
websites: https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app
mindfuled.org
mindfuleducation.org
Apps:
Headspace
Take 5 Mindful Minutes
Smiling Mind
CDs and Books:
Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel
Mindful Movements by Thich Nhat Hanh
What Does it Mean to Be Present? by Rana Diorio