Continuing in the spirit of this summer’s movies, here is a Spider-Man relaxation activity to practice mindful sense awareness with your child. The world is a beautiful noisy, sensational place, filled to overflowing with sensorial input. As I sit here … Continue reading
Feel good in your parenting life and expand your ability to enjoy your relationship with yourself and your child. I recently re-read The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks and became inspired to practice expanding my capacity to feel good in … Continue reading
Check out the new mindfulness book from Goldie Hawn, 10 Mindful Minutes, (http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Minutes-Children—Ourselves—Emotional/dp/039953606X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335817284&sr=8-1). This book does a nice job of explaining mindfulness, new brain science research, and ways to incorporate this information into your parenting life. She provides mindfulness activities … Continue reading
We’ve been acting as thought scientists in my office at school. Studying the power of our thoughts and how they make us feel. Studying the power of the words that we tell ourselves and how they make us feel. I … Continue reading
Mindfulness is known as the ability to pull your attention into the present moment, increasing your awareness of the thoughts that are happening as they happen. When you pause to let go and really just allow yourself to be in … Continue reading
The turtle relaxation walk is an excellent way for children to increase their mind/body awareness and practice mindfulness, (aka bringing attention into the present moment). As you guide them through the following relaxation walk, feelings of calm and relaxation are … Continue reading
Practice mindfulness today by initiating a Freeze and Feel. Freeze and Feel steps are as follows: 1. Decide what the signal will be, (a bell, chime, hand clap or finger snap, gesture, or turning off the lights, etc. . . … Continue reading
Mindfulness is usually thought of as bringing your attention fully into the present moment. I love the classical description provided by Susan Kaiser Greenland in her book, The Mindful Child: Mindfulness is a mirror of what’s happening in the present moment. … Continue reading