She said that what they find in testimonials from teachers is that once they’ve learned a mindfulness technique, they’re able to have a more creative way of working with children once they misbehave. And it’s contagious being around people who are very ‘present’ in their life.” “So if the teachers themselves are never able to teach mindfulness in the classroom, they at least are able to be a model of that level of awareness. “When we do teacher training, we always start with teaching them as if they’re going to have their own practice,” Bisram said. One efficient way that mindfulness training is spread in classrooms is by teaching the teachers themselves. Then, for instance, there’s not going to be as much bullying happening in or out of schools. That’s what we call self-regulation.”īisram said that the expansive method of mindfulness impacts children’s ability to relate interpersonally in a way so that there are fewer triggers for them. This awareness also helps you to catch even the emotion or the thought rising in you or even the thought arising in you. The goal is to create an awareness in the way where you can choose what you focus on. “It’s about broadening or opening attention, where the goal is expansion. “There’s another skill, which is basically the opposite of focused attention practice,” she said. “That practice is really just about training the brain to choose what you focus on. “There is focused awareness and attention practice, which really helps us to cultivate the ability to come back to an anchor ‘place’ or to pay attention,” she said. There are two main directions that mindfulness is approached for youth. Mindfulness practice helps young people in several ways, depending on the type of practices they do, Bisram said.
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“With young people, we teach them the skills which help them to be able to pay attention, to quiet the mind and to notice what they’re experiencing and how to deal with that,” she said. If people are not able to come back from that, it can become chronic. She also said that mindfulness helps with being able to bounce back from a stressor. “What happens is that, if we haven’t prepared ourselves from a young age how to be in healthy relationships and to regulate our reactions, then that can cause problems for us.” “We are built to often go into that fight or flight response, even when we’re not in an emergency-type situation,” Bisram said.
Without proper training, people go into a reactionary mode, which can cause a lot of stress, she said. Then, there are the obvious tragedies and events that can cause emotional trauma.
Fundamentally, it’s about learning how to deal with life in general.”īisram said that at this point, there’s a lot of emphasis on dealing with stress, because of the pace of society, as well as the over-exposure of so many kinds to stimuli. It’s also an awareness of how we feel and about our interactions with others and with the world. “It’s about dealing with the things that arise in you because of all of your experiences, which are ultimately happening within us. “At the foundational level, it’s really building an awareness of your own experience in relation to your ‘self’ and your thoughts,” she said. She said that the term most people are familiar with is emotional intelligence, but mindfulness goes beyond that. “That, in turn, helps to cultivate everything from skills and stress management, self-regulation, empathy, compassion and focused attention.”īisram said for young people, mindfulness tends to be related to their ability and their readiness to learn to deal with their emotions. “Mindfulness is about providing tools that help people to cultivate awareness,” she said. “What we do is to bring together all of the professionals and initiatives that are infusing mindfulness into the lives of children and families through the school system.” Defining mindfulnessīisram said she understands that there is some confusion and misunderstanding about what mindfulness means. “As a result of all of the training, AHAM created a Mind-Body Resiliency Coalition with the CSC of Broward,” Bisram said.
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