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Those of you who are familiar with my blog know that empowering students is my mission. I use various resources to achieve this- inspirational stories, videos, poems, songs, to name but a few.
Nevertheless, I noticed that more and more students would come to me and say:
I don’t believe in myself.
I feel anxious.
I’m struggling to manage my feelings.
I can’t calm my mind.
I am not confident enough.
Or parents would say:
Can you help my child focus better?
Does it sound familiar?
So twelve months ago I decided to introduce MEDITATIONS to my students- a powerful mindfulness tool that I have been using in my life for a few years. I believe that I owed my personal growth and enhanced creativity to meditating so I knew I was onto a winner.
What is MEDITATION?
It’s a technique where we focus on our breath, sound or a mantra.
Meditating has a lot of benefits. And while many people use this mindfulness tool to improve their health and relax their mind and body, we, educators, can boldly introduce it to our students because it:
stimulates the imaginative aspects of the brain;
encourages critical thinking
enables us to reflect on our thoughts
helps us to learn how to manage our emotions ( great as a pre-writing activity)
we become more self-aware
Where can we source meditations?
I use my own mediations with my students. See here.
You can also find lots of recordings on YouTube as well as apps such as Insight Timer.
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