Mindfulness in the classroom

mindfulness conducted by- s.k.sharma

What is Mindfulness?

• The quality or state of being conscious or aware of something.
• A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment,while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feeling, thoughts and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
• A way of paying attention to, and seeing clearly whatever is happening to our lives.
• Mindfulness has both physical and psychological benefits.

Mindfulness according to Mr. S. Sharma

Mindfulness is best therapy to relax your mind and avoid most of our physical problems like digestive system, stress and migration extra.

Meditation

Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness.

The term meditation refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force and develop compassion, love, patience, generosity and forgiveness.

How to Start Meditation, What is Mindfulness Meditation

Instructions For Mindfulness Meditation

• Take a break and make yourself acutely aware of your surroundings.
• Take deep breaths and feel your lungs swell.
• Allow yourself to think about your feelings, but do so without judgment.
• Choose a calming word say ‘Om’. Repeat it over and over to yourself silently.

Self awareness of Body and mind

Breathing Exercises

Any form of exercise in which a person switches from shallow rapid breathing to deeper slower breathing, the most refined of which were developed in yoga; such exercises allegedly improve blood circulation, calm nerves and draw in vital substances (of an unspecified nature) which are not normally inhaled.

Exploring Group exercises For mindfulness

Introduction

1. In this busy world of ours, most of us don't have five minutes to sit down and relax, let alone 30 minutes or more for a session of meditation!
2. Mindfulness  helps children students and teachers to improve their concentration, attention, reduce stress build a calm climate in classroom, and improve the overall school environment.

Mindfulness In Stressful situations

Why is it required?

Mindfulness has proven to be effective for children in having:-

1. Outcomes of well being
2. Reducing anxiety and distress
3. Improving behavior
4. Lower stress levels

Mindfulness in the classroom 

1. Meditation was performed by all the students 
2. Theme was described by yoga exercises 
3. Buzz activity with the audience 
4. After that name game was conducted
5. Contain lots activities like buzz, name game, truth lie , jumbled words etc.
6. Examples for supporting the theme 
7. Activities 
8. Yoga and meditation 
9. Mind game 
10. Picture observation 

Concluding point

Yoga and meditation is very useful for our daily routine. It helps in keeping our body fit and healthy . We should do yoga exercised daily for keeping our mind ,body and soul healthy.

Experience

It was a very interesting presentation . It contains lots of activities so , I enjoyed very much.

Scope of improvement : Educational point of view

Yoga and meditation should be imparted in classroom. So , it keep the children aware of it and then they came to know the importance of yoga exercises. Mind games enhance child’s mind power , makes understanding fun.

Skillful Ways To Teach Mindfulness To Children

1. Meditation
2. Gentle Yoga
3. Mind Body exercises

Mindfulness And Emotional well being

Emotional health has many aspects. It is based on self-esteem – how you feel about yourself- and behavior that is appropriate and healthy. Someone who is emotionally healthy or well  :-

• Understands and adapts to change.
• Copes with stress
• Has a positive self concept
• Has the ability to love and care for others
• Can act independently to meet his order own needs

Mindfulness And Decision -Making

A Systematic Approach For Making Decisions

A logical and ordered process can help you to do this by making sure that you address all of the critical elements needed for a successful outcome.

Steps takes this into account:

1. Create a constructive environment.
2. Investigate the situation in detail.
3. Generate good alternatives.
4. Explore your options.
5. Select the best solution.
6. Evaluate your plan.
7. Communicate your decision, and take action.

Decision Making

We make decisions every single day. Some are simple, others are more complex.

Some of your decisions will be so routine that you make them without giving them much thought. But difficult or challenging decisions demand more consideration. These are the sort of decisions that involve:

1. Uncertainty – Many of the facts may be unknown.
2. Complexity – There can be many, interrelated factors to consider.
3. High-risk consequences – The impact of the decision may be significant.
4. Alternatives – There may be various alternatives, each with its own set of uncertainties and consequences.
5. Interpersonal issues – You need to predict how different people will react. 
6. When you’re making a decision that involves complex issues like these, you also need to engage your problem-solving, as well as decision-making skills. It pays to use an effective, robust process in these circumstances, to improve the quality of your decisions and to achieve consistently good results. 

Mindfulness And Cognitive learning

Each of these psychologists focused on different cognitive condition that impact on learning.

thanks all teachers and priniciple sir