Schools are now incorporating mindfulness into their classrooms.
Taken from : Mindfulteachers.org Why Kids Need Mindfulness Training: "Regardless of race, education, or socioeconomic status, an alarming number of children and adolescents are being diagnosed with ADHD, depression, anxiety, obesity, eating disorders, and addictions, and engaging in cutting and other self-destructive behaviors, including suicide." A Still Quiet Place: A Mindfulness Program for Teaching Children and Adolescents to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions, Dr. Amy Saltzman Mindfulness and the Brain Ohmega1982 for FreeDigitalPhotos.net There is a lot of recent research about the neuroplasticity of the brain and on the positive impact of mindfulness practices. According to Dr. Kirk Strosahl and Dr. Patricia Robinson, "research indicates that brain training involving mindfulness practices can strengthen areas of the brain responsible for attention, emotional control, and problem solving… There is even emerging evidence that mindfulness-based brain training produces permanent structural changes in the brain.” Specifically, mindfulness training can help with:
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