Mindful Games

Mindful Games
Author: Susan Kaiser Greenland
Publsiher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-11-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780834840522

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A practical and playful guide for cultivating mindfulness in kids, with 50 simple games to develop attention and focus, and identify and regulate emotions Playing games is a great way for kids to improve their focus and become more mindful. In this book, The Mindful Child author Susan Kaiser Greenland shares how parents, caregivers, and teachers can bring mindfulness into the classroom or home. She provides 50 entertaining games that develop what she calls the new "A, B, C's"—Attention, Balance, and Compassion—for your child's learning, happiness, and success, offering context and guidance throughout. She introduces: · Anchor games that develop concentration · Visualization games that encourage kindness and focus · Analytical games that cultivate clear thinking · Awareness games for sensory awareness, self-regulating emotions, and gaining insight into ourselves, others, and relationships Even though the games are designed for kids, they can be just as fun and transformative for adults. Greenland encourages parents and caregivers to develop their own Attention, Balance, and Compassion and to explore the universal concepts that she presents. Our own mindfulness has a powerful effect on everyone in our lives—especially our children.

Mindful String Games

Mindful String Games
Author: Chronicle Books
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1452179689

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Relax and find your calm. Move your hands to still your mind. In this meditative take on the traditional game of cat's cradle, players use a looped string to inspire mental calm. The boxed set includes an instruction booklet with dreamy illustrations for 15 string games to play alone or with a friend. - Fans of adult coloring books, desktop Japanese Zen sand gardens, knitting, and other handwork/craft activities that have mindfulness or calming benefits will love this product. It's also a great way to start a meditation practice if traditional meditation hasn't worked for you. - The elegant packaging also makes this a lovely gift for anyone who has nostalgic childhood memories of playing cat's cradle. Includes: - Sturdy looped nylon cord - 88-page instruction booklet with 75+ illustrations, relaxation techniques, and step-by-step instructional text for 15 games, like the Celtic Knot, the Butterfly, the Lizard, the Well, and Three Diamonds

The Mindful Child

The Mindful Child
Author: Susan Kaiser Greenland
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-05-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1416583564

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The techniques of mindful awareness have helped millions of adults reduce stress in their lives. Now, children—who are under more pressure than ever before—can learn to protect themselves with these well-established methods adapted for their ages. Based on a program affiliated with UCLA, The Mindful Child is a groundbreaking book, the first to show parents how to teach these transformative practices to their children. Mindful awareness works by enabling you to pay closer attention to what is happening within you—your thoughts, feelings, and emotions—so you can better understand what is happening to you. The Mindful Child extends the vast benefits of mindfulness training to children from four to eighteen years old with age-appropriate exercises, songs, games, and fables that Susan Kaiser Greenland has developed over more than a decade of teaching mindful awareness to kids. These fun and friendly techniques build kids’ inner and outer awareness and attention, which positively affects their academic performance as well as their social and emotional skills, such as making friends, being compassionate and kind to others, and playing sports, while also providing tools to manage stress and to overcome specific challenges like insomnia, overeating, ADHD, hyper-perfectionism, anxiety, and chronic pain. When children take a few moments before responding to stressful situations, they allow their own healthy inner compasses to click in and guide them to become more thoughtful, resilient, and empathetic. The step-by-step process of mental training presented in The Mindful Child provides tools from which all children—and all families—will benefit.

The Mindful Kids Activity Book

The Mindful Kids Activity Book
Author: Louison Nielman
Publsiher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781611808087

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An adorable activity book to help kids (ages 3-7) learn about anger, anxiety, and stress and how to deal with these challenging emotions. Bailey the Bear can get ever-so angry. Katie the Kangaroo often finds it hard to concentrate. And Ricky the Rabbit's mind is always busy! Every child can relate to these experiences of losing emotional control. Follow Bailey, Katie, and Ricky as they learn to understand their feelings and gain the resources to express themselves through mindful play. Bright and cheerful illustrations present a variety of mazes, puzzles, collages, and coloring activities to uncover ways for kids to process their anger, anxiety, and stress. By following the critters' narratives--and playing the fun games sprinkled throughout--your child will learn how they can calm their anger, concentrate, and relax--healthier and happier alternatives to letting big feelings get the best of them. Answer keys for all the puzzles and activities are included at the end of each section of the book.

Focusing and Calming Games for Children

Focusing and Calming Games for Children
Author: Deborah Plummer
Publsiher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0857003445

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Having the ability to focus, relax and concentrate is key to enabling children and young people to achieve emotional well-being, and is also important for a child's development of skills and abilities. This book uses a model of 'mindfulness play' to help children to achieve well-being, an approach designed by the author which encourages children to build awareness of their inner and outer worlds. Part One covers the theoretical and practical background, setting out how to facilitate play using the mindfulness play model, including consideration of the emotional environment. Part Two includes a wealth of games and activities, from 'Body focus' and 'Fidget flop' to 'Musical drawings' and 'Pass a smile'. The activities are suitable for use with groups and individual children aged 5–12, and can be adapted for children with specific attention and concentration difficulties, such as ADHD, and for older children. This is an ideal resource for teachers, counsellors, social workers, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, youth workers, parents, and carers.

Mindful Kids

Mindful Kids
Author: Whitney Stewart
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Meditation
ISBN: 1782853278

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"Make any moment mindful from morning to night with 5 categories of cards, designed to fit into each part of the day. Whimsical full-color illustrations on both sides of the cards provide easy-to-follow steps for each practice. The cards and 8-page instructional booklet include tips for children of a wide range of abilities"--Publisher's website

Breathe through This

Breathe through This
Author: Eline Snel
Publsiher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780834830479

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You try to be supportive through all the emotional ups and downs, but if you’re too supportive, they feel smothered. You want to give them the freedom necessary to grow, but not so much that they’re left vulnerable—and however you try to do it, you can count on being wrong. Parenting a teenager is a challenge, to be sure, but Eline Snel has some very good news for those facing that challenge: there’s a way to stay mindful, present, and, yes, positive throughout it all by developing a base of mindful awareness as your resource. With her characteristic practical wisdom, Snel provides methods for developing that resource, along with strategies for forging a bond of courage, compassion, and trust with your teenager—and for making space for yourself within the process too. Mindfulness meditation helps us stay calm in tense moments and be less reactive with our children. It allows us to respond to them in ways that are most helpful and that promote dialogue rather than clashing. The practices that Snel teaches, developed in her clinical work and honed in her own experience as a parent, are supplemented with one audio download of guided meditations for parents and another one for teens. They will help you calm down during tense and heated moments and become a more focused and openhearted parent.

Find Your Happy Place A Book of Mindful Activities

Find Your Happy Place  A Book of Mindful Activities
Author: Rodale
Publsiher: Rodale Kids
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780593373705

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The ultimate mindfulness activity book for 5-8 year-olds. Includes more than 200 stickers! Jam-packed with exercises to help children manage their breath, thoughts, and feelings, this is the perfect activity book for those seeking tranquility in our turbulent times. Split over two sections that focus on mindfulness and emotions, Find Your Happy Place aims to help kids find calm, be present, and make sense of the jumble of feelings within. Each section is bursting with puzzles, games, drawing prompts, things to color, stickers, and other fun activities!