The Buddha — Siddhartha Gautama — called mindfulness “the path to enlightenment.” To spread the word of enlightenment, he asked that his senior monks (called bhikkhus) teach a doctrine called The Four Foundations of Mindfulness. When the bhikkhus asked the Buddha which four foundations they ...
work, or other daily tasks deliberately and purposefully. You can practice mindfulness while you clean the house, mow the lawn, drive to work, or exercise. Doing so may make chores more pleasant, including those you may have found particularly undesirable. Research shows that mindfulness can...
Mindfulness meditations (such as body scanning) are wonderful for relaxation and concentration, but they're far from the only way to integrate mindfulness practice into your life. These six mindfulness exercises will inspire you to make simple daily changes that help you to tune into the present ...
Mindfulness has been shown to be effective inreducing stress. Often, stress is the result of unhelpful worries about the past and future or other facets of life beyond your control. Mindfulness may help you let go of stressful thoughts and worries about the past or future. Mindfulness may also...
How do we teach mindfulness to kids? The next question people ask is how we can teach mindfulness to children. Before we talk about mindfulness strategies, let’s talk about how we as parents and teachers can begin this lifelong practice of mindfulness, by noticing, getting curious, and commi...
Delving into these rudimentary steps isn’t the goal of this article (find more about that inJanelle Cox’s TeachHUB article). Today, I want to show you how to take the incorporation of mindfulness into your classes to the next level. Here are five ideas: ...
3. In a school setting, it’s better to teach mindfulness to students after their freshman year. Allow the teens to get past the stage of having goofy energy, and into the age where they are able to pull themselves together and try to focus on the task at hand. More mature student...
of themselves, and she provides them with the skills to teach mindfulness to students. She teaches even the youngest students about how the brain functions, uses music and video to guide lessons, and addresses the entire student body once each month to talk about topics related to mindfulness....
Very few have been able to integrate it into their core curriculum. This chapter features three prominent universities that have succeeded in doing this. The authors (from each university) describe not only what they teach but also the evolution of their respective programs. Naturally, the ...
Mindfulness This course was a five star rating from me. It was more than I imagined. I thought it would just teach me how to meditated and relax however I gained so much more than I could possibly have thought I would. I learned how to listen to my body and mind and understand mysel...