Healthy Habits of Mind (Neuroscientist Richard Davidson & Mindful Schools Program)
Great film that shows how kindergarteners in Oxford Elementary School in Berkeley, San Francisco are introduced to mindfulness in school. They practice mindful listening, mindful eating, mindful movement and yoga. Mindfulness is a way of being and one of the benefits is that it teaches how to pay attention.
Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness (Neuroscientist Panel)
What Does Mindfulness Meditation Do To Your Brain (Scientific American Magazine)
Mindfulness Exercises Improve Kid's Math Scores (Time Magazine)
In adults, mindfulness has been shown to have all kinds of amazing effects throughout the body: it can combat stress, protect your heart, shorten migraines and possibly even extend life. But a new trial published in the journal Developmental Psychology suggests that the effects are also powerful in kids as young as 9—so much so that improving mindfulness showed to improve everything from social skills to math scores.
The Mindful Revolution (Time Magazine)
Finding peace in a stressed-out, digitally dependent culture may just be a matter of thinking differently.
The raisins sitting in my sweaty palm are getting stickier by the minute. They don’t look particularly appealing, but when instructed by my teacher, I take one in my fingers and examine it. I notice that the raisin’s skin glistens. Looking closer, I see a small indentation where it once hung from the vine...