The Seed to Soul Mindfulness Manual gives parents, caregivers and teachers a viariety of tools to create mindful moments for kids to reassess and recharge. Many have recognized the need for these moments but may not know how to go about organizing them - this is where the Mindfulness Manual comes in as a valuable tool.
School can be a stressful place for both students and teachers. Taking a moment to reassess, recharge and reset can be a powerful tool for everyone in the classroom to connect, raise positivity and help each other to have a better day. This can be a special mindfulness session but it can also be repeated as often as required through little mindful moments. Asking students throughout their day whether anyone needs such a moment and responding accordingly as a group (for example by everyone closing their eyes and taking three deep breaths, everyone doing a quick stretch or repeating an affirmation) can be a powerful tool for more focus and positivity as well as connecting as a group since everyone is involved in creating a mindful atmosphere.
Practicing mindfulness is also a great way for adults and children to achieve a sense of safety and improve their emotion regulation, because of its effect on the nervous system.
Neuropsychiatrist Dan Siegel coined the term “integration” to describe the optimal functioning of systems. The brain, as a system, becomes better integrated when individual structures get stronger and their functions become increasingly coordinated. This leads to meaningful changes in emotions, communication, and behaviour from the inside out, including better self-regulation and resilience. And since the brain is connected to other systems within the body, strengthening integration in the brain has benefits for those other systems, including cardiovascular and immune functioning.
When teachers (and parents) are in a more integrated state, they can act with both their own feelings and those of the child in mind and avoid getting lost in the child’s struggles, moving toward their suffering with care. This sense of remaining separate in our own experience, while being deeply connected to others through care, is integration. Movement toward another’s suffering to alleviate it is integration in action. As Siegel says: “Integration made visible is kindness and compassion.”
Practicing mindfulness in the classroom can support integration for both teachers and students, resulting in a happier, more balanced community. There are many simple yet powerful tools we can use to promote mindfulness. A selection of them is detailed in the following pages. These selections have been written addressing the reader directly, as a teacher might address students in a classroom setting. The goal here is to make it easier to find the words to teach these techniques.
Whichever mindfulness tools you choose, these sessions should always be enjoyable and relaxing for everyone involved. Putting your heart into it and finding little ways to make them special will go a long way in engaging students. With a little bit of practice teachers as well as students will be looking forward to their mindfulness minutes and they will become an important part of the classroom routine.
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