Mindfulness is about learning to train your attention to the
present moment without dwelling on what has happened in the past or
worrying about what will happen in the future.
Mindfulness provides many physical and psychological benefits.
It has worked its way into modern day therapy and can be practiced
in other non-therapy forms such as yoga and meditation.
Check out the following links to find out more about mindfulness
training and how you can incorporate it into your classroom
practice.
Mindfulness - the facts
Factsheet
Mindfulness involves paying attention to certain stimuli and
disregarding others. How we perceive the stimuli around us depends
on how we focus our attention - our minds by default - participate
in habitual thinking. This means our mind goes to places and
thoughts that we usually think of out of habit.
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Focusing our attention
Lesson activity
Attention is a concentration of the mind on a single object or
thought by choosing not to focus on other outside influences.
The following exercises can be used with your classes to show
how our awareness can be limited and how, by redirecting our
attention, our perception can be changed.
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Mindfulness - developing a still mind
Blog post
Mindfulness is designed to
help people deal with day to day difficulties by taking control of
your thoughts and focusing your attention on what is important in
each situation.
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