Try a “mindful minute.”“It is one minute where kids take a deep breath and check in with themselves – how are they really feeling?” Levitt says. “For younger kids, we focus on just one aspect, but you can take it further with more reflective questions or by tapping into their f...
so their responses reflect their tendency to be mindful at the time they answered the researchers’ questions. The findings suggest that children with higher levels of mindfulness were less likely to get caught up in negative emotions or blame themselves for the negative things they experienced durin...
Students would often tell him that the "kindness practices" he assigned for homework – in which they were asked to think positively about a stranger – helped them feel less judgmental. Students also learned that they could choose not to engage in negative thoughts, sharing that they appreciated...
It may look boring, but for many students this is actually preferable because it is free from distractions andsensory overload. Mindfulness Music for Kids I’ve been into mindful music for a long time and I didn’t even know it. Back when CDs first came out, we bought a few nature sou...
The questions being addressed by these studies, for the most part, remain unanswered. However, although the findings overall may be inconclusive, mindfulness as an intervention for smoking reduction or cessation is supported by evidence from well-designed RCTs with blinded participants and active ...
To measure stress, we administered the Perceived Stress Scale for Children (PSS-C) (White, 2014). This self-report measure consists of 13 items on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from never to a lot. The questions assess perceived stress related to time pressure, academic performance, and re...
Finally, the need for more rigorous scientific evidence of the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in K-12 education is discussed, along with suggestions of specific process, outcome, and research-design questions remaining to be answered....
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on who you ask. On the one hand, some might define mindfulness as a series of exercises. Other people may define it as a state of being. For some, it is meditation with a foundation in religion. For others, there are valid scientific questions that should be asked about its ...
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