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"Highlights how mindfulness can be an effective tool in the classroom. Each chapter begins with a personal narrative concerning a challenge Srinivasan faced during the school day and how a specific mindfulness practice helped. The author shares what research says about the effects of mindfulness practice on academic, social, and emotional learning ... [and] introduces the complete curriculum teachers can use to incorporate mindfulness into their classroom, replete with lesson plans, PowerPoint diagrams, handouts, and homework assignments"--Provided by publisher.

"Life can be crazy and stressful. You have to worry about school, friends, family, and extra-curricular activities. Meditation can help you deal with day-to-day challenges and lead you to a healthier, happier, and more connected life. Inside this book you'll learn what stress is and how to deal with it, breathing and walking meditations to help clear your mind, yoga poses to help strengthen your body and mind, how to set intents and follow through with them, and more!"--Back cover.

"This guide introduces kids and preteens to mindfulness through exercises, meditations, and writing prompts"--.

"Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways; as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding 'lesson-a-day' primer on mindfulness practice."--Jacket.

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh expresses the importance of mindfulness, and describes practices based on Buddhist thought to heal emotional pain and recognize the joy in living, regardless of circumstance.

Presents an approach to providing children with social and emotional tools to help them deal with stress and negative feelings, calm their minds, remain focused, develop compassion and empathy, and live happy lives.

"Simple mindfulness practices to help your child deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions"--Front cover.

A collection of mindfulness teachings; accompanying CD includes five guided mindfulness meditations.

Look begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived ?ordinary.? Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities?taking a walk around the block?we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you?ll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.