Reboot's mindfulness exercises teach our kids to connect and calm the chattering voices in their heads. In simple, three-minute sessions.
“Give it back!” My six-year-old daughter screamed at her brother in the other room. “No, it’s mine!” he yelled back.It was ominous because I was waiting for, I don’t know, more yelling or a violent crash or cursing in a foreign language or something. That’s the way “give it back” and “no, it’s mine”Curious and partly afraid of the silence, I went to see what was going on. My daughter was sitting on the floor in her room by herself, nostrils flaring. She was obviously still mad.
At the beginning of 2016, our town’s elementary school began a pilot program for teaching mindfulness called. The program is a series of pre-recorded guided mindfulness sessions that the kids listen to each morning over the loudspeaker. In the recordings, Patti Schrader, one of the founders of Reboot, runs the kids through some super simple exercises. These can include breathing, visualization, gratitude, and, yes, popping emotional bubbles. She ends each session with telling the kids to go out and, “Rock their day.” It’s only three minutes of each day, but it’s making all the difference for the kids in our school.
describes mindfulness like this, “Mindfulness is a brain exercise where the person focuses on a single object—your breath, sounds around you, or even chewing your food. This act of “being present” and focus can recalibrate the brain.”the physical formation of your brain when you regularly practice mindfulness. One of the specific areas that gets changed is your fight or flight center, or the amygdala.
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