But mindfulness is not just for adults. According to mental health experts, it can also be good for children. “Mindfulness helps kids cope with the daily stresses we all face,” says Michael Crowley, an associate professor at Yale Child Study Center and advisor for the Yale-Scholastic Collabo...
Try these simple mindfulness techniques with your children if they are feeling anxious at home – they will help keep your family calm and centered.
The world can be a stressful place, so it’s perfectly reasonable to take a moment for yourself to re-calibrate your mind. The use of meditation and mindfulness activities has become extremely popular over recent years, but many people struggle to sit long enough to reap the rewards – and ...
Now fully revised and updated, including new and fun activities for dealing with school anxiety, social media overwhelm, bullying, and more。Being a teen is hard enough without anxiety getting in the way。 Not only are you changing more than ever before—physically and mentally—you’re also ...
Vagus nervesare a critical component of our parasympathetic nervous system and are responsible for creating signals between our brain, heart and digestive systems. Before challenging activities at work, we can experience tightening of our throat or chest. Vagal Toning involves deep breathing and exhalin...
Many evidence-based psychological treatments include difficult activities. Behavioral experiments, for example, are designed to test unhelpful beliefs, such as, “If I participate in conversation, I'll say stupid things and people will reject me.” Testing these beliefs by engaging in such behavior,...
This lovely new superhero-themed kids yoga & mindfulness iPad app helps children wind down and let go of all the “stuff’ from their day. Activities are short (each less than 10 minutes) so it’s easy to squeeze into a bedtime routine or to use as a calming break during the day and...
With regard to the use of instruments for assessing mindfulness with young children there are remarkable studies worth to mention like the Child Observation of Mindfulness Measure (C-OMM) [11] proving to be relevant during teacher-directed activities only or the Individualized Classroom Assessment Scor...
The scale consisted of 15 items (e.g., I break or spill things because of carelessness, not paying attention, or thinking of something else; I rush through activities without being really attentive to them). The MAAS is considered applicable regardless of an individual’s personal experience ...
(e.g., betting, sex, shopping) that can be pleasurable but whose continued use/act becomes compulsive and interferes with traditional life activities such as work, relationships, or health. The concerned individual may be unaware that theirbehaviouris out of control and causing problems for ...