Room to Breathe Film - Mindful Schools Room to Breathe explores the personal transformations that happen for students, their families, and educators as mindfulness is introduced in a truly challenging public school environment. By providing a raw and realistic look at the experience, it shows how integrating mindfulness, along with patience, skill, collaboration and more, can transform even the most difficult classrooms. The trailer and the full-length film are available to watch, below. Watch the Trailer Watch the Film Continue the Conversation Share it with your principal and colleagues, and tell us what you think at community@mindfulschools.org.Inspired to learn more about integrating mindfulness in your work with youth?
practicing self confession What is self-compassion and why is it beneficial? - Maintaining a Mindful Life - Monash University Explore the difference between self-criticism and self-compassion in this exercise. Step 1 Bring to mind someone you care about who is experiencing some difficulty – perhaps a failure or setback, some misfortune, or is otherwise having a difficult time. Someone you care about who is suffering. Reflect for a moment on how you have tended to respond to them. Notice how it feels in your body as you remember showing up for them in this way. You may like to write this down or record your thoughts in a way that’s comfortable for you. Step 2 Now take a moment to reflect on a time when you experienced some difficulty – a failure or setback, some misfortune, or were otherwise having a difficult time. Reflect for a moment on how you responded to yourself. How does this feel in your body? Again, you may like to write this down or record your thoughts in a way that’s comfortable for you. What did you find out? Did you discover that you tend to be much tougher on yourself than on others? What’s the impact?
The Wellness Collective How to wear a maxi dress or maxi skirt? I mentioned before that although I like the look of a maxi skirt or dress on others, I cannot make this look work for me. I’m not sure why that is but I feel the look overpowers me and makes me look huge. It does not help that I’m usually not that much into prints which are very popular for maxi skirts and dresses. Still, I do really like the look on others. I feel it’s feminine and often deliciously bohemian chic. I’m sure you will agree with me that the women featured today look absolutely fabulous! Suzanne (Suzanne Carillo Style Files) really knows how to rock both maxi dresses and a maxi skirt. MCarmen (MyEmptyBag) is looking beautiful, romantic and dreamy in this pastel flowery maxi dress combined with chambray shirt. Lissa is looking fabulous in her 2 maxi dresses. About this black maxi dress with colorful prints Lissa says: “This is fine for work with the little cotton sweater, but playful and casual without….” Thanks again to all ladies for submitting these glorious looks!
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Exercise 1: How would you treat a friend? Please take out a sheet of paper and answer the following questions: First, think about times when a close friend feels really bad about him or herself or is really struggling in some way. How would you respond to your friend in this situation (especially when you’re at your best)? Please write down what you typically do, what you say, and note the tone in which you typically talk to your friends.Now think about times when you feel bad about yourself or are struggling. How do you typically respond to yourself in these situations? Why not try treating yourself like a good friend and see what happens?
Rewiring the brain for happiness - Maintaining a Mindful Life - Monash University The human brain evolved over aeons to help us survive. Our ancestors had to constantly scan the environment for very real physical threats. If they heard a rustling in the bushes they were much more likely to survive if they assumed it might be a sabre-toothed tiger until proven otherwise, than if they assumed it was a bunny rabbit and kept gazing at the pretty sunset. This got hardwired into their brains, and even into their DNA. And this negativity bias has been passed down the generations to us, since having this negativity bias meant they were much more likely to survive long enough to reproduce and pass on their genes. This is why we have an innate negativity bias. The smart ancestor did make the effort, however, to pay attention to what was actually there so that threats could be responded to on their merits and we didn’t have to keep running from the phantoms of our own imagination. Relating to ourselves compassionately is one way of reprogramming ourselves. Savouring Gratitude
What Causes Depression? Although a challenging life event, such as the death of a loved one or financial hardship, can trigger depressive episodes, the causes of depression are complex and overlapping. There are two main categories of risks that can contribute to depression—those that you can't change, and those that you can. Uncontrollable Risk Factors These variables are out of your control. Your family history.