mindfulness

Simple Activities To Help Toddlers Develop Mindfulness

Today I’m excited to welcome Jennifer Landis of Mindfulness Mama to share some tips about how to help toddlers develop mindfulnes. Enjoy!! — Chelsea Learning to be mindful is a great way to help you deal with the stresses in your life, but it’s not normally the kind of thing you think to teach toddlers and small… {read more}

Deep Breathing Exercise for Children {Free Printables}

Everything feels blurred and unfocused. Your shoulders drag to the floor, burdened by thoughts. Even those tiny freckles feel heavy. Gone is the clarity you had last week. It has now been replaced by chaos. Beneath a seemingly calm facade, you are a tornado of emotions swerving out of control. Your glazed-over-eyes show nothing of… {read more}

Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: Teaching Non-Judgementalism

In part one of this series, I introduced the concept of mindfulness. In part two, we talked about how to focus our awareness. In this post, we see how mindfulness is the focus of awareness in the present moment without judgement. This takes a lot of practice. We have been taught our whole lives to judge… {read more}

Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: How to Focus Awareness

Mindfulness can assist us to pay more attention to our everyday life. In part one of this series, I shared what mindfulness is and how I apply it as a therapist using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. I also gave an exercise that can explain the concept of mindfulness to children. The following exercise shows us that when… {read more}

Mindfulness Exercises for Kids: The Concept of Mindfulness

Mindfulness has a lot of different meanings. As a Therapist, I find that Mindfulness is a very useful strategy to focus awareness on the current moment without judgement. This is very useful for kids to learn and parents to practice. In this three-part series I will describe the different parts of mindfulness as I learned… {read more}