Transcript Paws-Lesson2x - Mindfulness In Schools
Lesson Two
Puppy Training
Learning to be in the present moment
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The torchlight of attention
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Pay attention!
Attention is like a puppy
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It wanders around, sniffing aimlessly It doesn’t stay where you want it to It brings back things you didn’t ask for It makes messes
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Firm
, Patient ,
Kind
, REPETITION
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Choosing to be present Forgetting to be present
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Mindless Mindful “I ate my whole breakfast while watching TV and when I had finished I realised that I didn’t even know what kind of cereal I ate.”
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“I was really concentrating on feeling my feet on the beam, balancing and remembering my new routine.”
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Practice Two
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Why do we use the breath to help us be mindful?
It’s with us wherever we go, like a good friend.
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Remembering Our Breath Pause and be
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Lesson Two
Puppy Training
Learning to be in the present moment
Remembering Our Breath Pause and be
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Prefrontal Cortex Our Hippocampus Hippocampus
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Why is it called the Hippocampus , and not the Elephantcampus , or Rhinocampus ?
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What does it do?
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Key learning points Present moment
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Focus Directing our attention Torchlight Mind wandering Training the mind Hippocampus
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Practice This Week 1 Do a Paws b practice three times this week (standing or sitting).
2 Eat a piece of food mindfully this week.
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