A too mindful debate about mindfulness?

The Mind­ful­ness Back­lash (The New York Times): “Mind­ful­ness has reached such a lev­el of hip­ness that it is now sug­gest­ed as a cure for essen­tial­ly every ail­ment. Anx­ious? Broke? Sneez­ing? Def­i­nite­ly try med­i­tat­ing. This vogue is in part due to the real ben­e­fits of mind­ful­ness, a form of atten­tion and aware­ness often (but not always) achieved…

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From Distress to De-Stress: helping anxious, worried kids (Part 2 of 2)

Last week, in this arti­cle’s first part, we dis­cussed the impor­tance of actu­al­ly teach­ing chil­dren how to get them­selves into a phys­i­cal state of being relaxed, explored sev­er­al sug­ges­tions I hope you found use­ful. Let’s con­tin­ue. Teach­ers can help stu­dent over­come stress by teach­ing them to iden­ti­fy the imped­i­ments they might encounter in doing a…

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