Mindful Games

Author : Susan Kaiser Greenland
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780834840522

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Mindful Games by Susan Kaiser Greenland Pdf

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.

Author : Chronicle Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452179689

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Mindful String Games by Chronicle Books Pdf

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

Author : Susan Kaiser Greenland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1416583564

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The Mindful Child by Susan Kaiser Greenland Pdf

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.

Author : Kristina Sargent
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781646115945

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Mindful Games for Kids by Kristina Sargent Pdf

Calm feelings, peaceful thoughts—mindful games for kids ages 4 to 8 to play Dealing with big feelings can be hard, but it's easier when you practice listening to your body and staying in the present moment. With Mindful Games for Kids, children ages 4-8 can start learning those skills and feeling more in control. Engaging activities help teach kids to calm themselves, focus more easily, and even be kinder to others—all using the principles of mindfulness. 50 colorfully illustrated, imaginative exercises keep the fun coming while showing kids helpful techniques like deep breathing, visualization, meditation, and more. Many of these off-the-page games take 10 minutes or less, making it easy to practice the magic of mindfulness anytime, anywhere. Inside Mindful Games for Kids, you'll find: 50 fantastic games—Discover mindful games like My Big Bat Ears, Hearing My Breath, As Cool as a Snowflake, and Sing My Emotions—all created just for kids ages 4-8. Imagination invitation—Explore activities themed around breath, senses, thoughts, emotions, and the body—most don't require supplies, just an imagination! Mindful together—Kids can play these mindful games alone or with other people (grown-ups are invited too!)—the supportive guidelines include ways for anyone to win. Kids can find a peaceful mind through fun and games—with Mindful Games for Kids!

Author : Deborah Plummer
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857003445

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Focusing and Calming Games for Children by Deborah Plummer Pdf

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.

Author : Whitney Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Meditation
ISBN : 1782853278

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Mindful Kids by Whitney Stewart Pdf

"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

Author : Rodale
Publisher : Rodale Kids
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593373705

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Find Your Happy Place: A Book of Mindful Activities by Rodale Pdf

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!

Author : Eline Snel
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780834829190

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Sitting Still Like a Frog by Eline Snel Pdf

This introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents includes practices that can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware.

Author : Joann Calabrese
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738764832

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Growing Mindful by Joann Calabrese Pdf

Cultivate Greater Awareness with this Joyful, Earth-Centered Path of Mindfulness Enjoy the extraordinary union of meditation and nature with this hands-on guide to being mindful in the garden. Joann Calabrese shares an abundance of activities and exercises you can use while inhabiting any green space, whether it's your yard, a park, or a forest trail. You'll learn to engage with earth energies and the present moment via everyday, accessible practices—all while using the natural world as your portal. Growing Mindful features dozens of awareness-boosting explorations rooted in sensing the wonder and magic of nature. Discover supplies and settings for each activity, garden correspondences, and 52 plants to mindfully connect with every week of the year. This inspiring, playful guide helps you deepen your spirituality and nurture a unique practice.

Author : Eline Snel
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780834830479

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Breathe through This by Eline Snel Pdf

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.

Author : Julio Abascal,Simone Barbosa,Mirko Fetter,Tom Gross,Philippe Palanque,Marco Winckler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319226989

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015 by Julio Abascal,Simone Barbosa,Mirko Fetter,Tom Gross,Philippe Palanque,Marco Winckler Pdf

The four-volume set LNCS 9296-9299 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, held in Bamberg, Germany, in September 2015. The 43 papers included in the third volume are organized in topical sections on HCI for global software development; HCI in healthcare; HCI studies; human-robot interaction; interactive tabletops; mobile and ubiquitous interaction; multi-screen visualization and large screens; participatory design; pointing and gesture interaction; and social interaction.

Author : Christopher Willard,Amy Saltzman
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462522408

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Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens by Christopher Willard,Amy Saltzman Pdf

Packed with creative, effective ideas for bringing mindfulness into the classroom, child therapy office, or community, this book features sample lesson plans and scripts, case studies, vignettes, and more. Leading experts describe how to harness the unique benefits of present-focused awareness for preschoolers, school-age kids, and teens, including at-risk youth and those with special needs. Strategies for overcoming common obstacles and engaging kids with different learning styles are explored. Chapters also share ways to incorporate mindfulness into a broad range of children's activities, such as movement, sports, music, games, writing, and art. Giving clinicians and educators practices they can use immediately, the book includes clear explanations of relevant research findings.

Author : Shirley L. Maguire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1716381959

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Mindfulness Activity Book for Kids by Shirley L. Maguire Pdf

Provide your kids lasting life skills to de-stress and calm down, overcome difficult emotions, control impulses, focus on what matters, gain empathy, kindness, and joy. Mindfulness is a kind of superpower we all have but don't know how to use. In this book, kids will learn how to use this power to feel good about themselves and the world around them through our awesome activities you'll find inside Book Features: 8.5 x 11 inches format 50] playful mindfulness activities Tools for calm, focus, joy, kindness, and emotional intelligence and regulation Inspirational examples of how mindfulness makes positive change Easy to understand explanations on how to explain mindfulness to kids and youth

Author : Rohan Gunatillake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452168369

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Mindfulness Cards by Rohan Gunatillake Pdf

Author : Xiaowen Fang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030774141

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HCI in Games: Serious and Immersive Games by Xiaowen Fang Pdf

This two-volume set LNCS 12789 and 12790 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on HCI in Games, HCI-Games 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. The papers of HCI-Games 2021, Part II are organized in topical sections named: Serious Games; Gamification and Learning; Mixed and Virtual Reality Games.