10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children--and Ourselves--the by Goldie Hawn

By Goldie Hawn

"Goldie Hawn embodies satisfaction and pleasure, and 10 aware Minutes radiates those. Her publication may help any adult-parent, grandparent, teacher-make double use in their moments with the youngsters they love and feature a very good time whereas supporting form that child's mind for a life of resilience and happiness."
-Daniel Goleman, writer of Emotional Intelligence

Across the rustic, the progressive MindUP software, which was once built less than the auspices of the Hawn origin, tested by means of Goldie Hawn, is instructing little ones very important social and emotional talents. via realizing how their brains paintings, youngsters become aware of the place their feelings come from and develop into extra self-aware. They learn how to savour the sensory points in their lives and to price the confident results of mindfulness, compassion, and kindness. This, in flip, empowers them to deal with and decrease their very own stress-and is helping them be happy.

Those who've obvious the amazing results of this application were wanting to methods to enforce it of their personal houses and use its practices for themselves, too. Now, for the 1st time, its secrets and techniques are being shared with all mom and dad and youngsters in 10 conscious Minutes.

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By Goldie Hawn

"Goldie Hawn embodies satisfaction and pleasure, and 10 aware Minutes radiates those. Her publication may help any adult-parent, grandparent, teacher-make double use in their moments with the youngsters they love and feature a very good time whereas supporting form that child's mind for a life of resilience and happiness."
-Daniel Goleman, writer of Emotional Intelligence

Across the rustic, the progressive MindUP software, which was once built less than the auspices of the Hawn origin, tested by means of Goldie Hawn, is instructing little ones very important social and emotional talents. via realizing how their brains paintings, youngsters become aware of the place their feelings come from and develop into extra self-aware. They learn how to savour the sensory points in their lives and to price the confident results of mindfulness, compassion, and kindness. This, in flip, empowers them to deal with and decrease their very own stress-and is helping them be happy.

Those who've obvious the amazing results of this application were wanting to methods to enforce it of their personal houses and use its practices for themselves, too. Now, for the 1st time, its secrets and techniques are being shared with all mom and dad and youngsters in 10 conscious Minutes.

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Allowing the stress response to take over chronically can have disastrous effects, from heart disease, high blood pressure, lowered immune function, and the death of brain cells to the growth of stomach ulcers and other gastroin­ testinal issues. Uncontrolled response to stress depresses energy levels and alters eating patterns, which can lead to eating dis­ orders. More disturbing still are the findings of one study that showed that ongoing stress shrinks the executive function areas of our brains and stimulates the habit-forming parts that keep us repeating actions in a negative pattern.

Animals sur­ vive in the wild by reacting to the stress response and attacking a predator, running away, or hiding. While most of us are now living in relatively safe environ­ [Stress] handicaps our abilities for learning, for holding information in working memory, for reacting flexibly and creatively, for focus­ ing attention at will, and for plan­ ning and organizing effectively. —Daniel Goleman, PhD 32 10 Mindful Minutes ments without predators, the stress response can turn on auto­ matically no matter what the perceived danger.

When she told me this story, I fully appreciated the stress levels of our children and how pressured they are to succeed. No one was looking at the bigger picture of why normally well-behaved students would risk expulsion to break the rules and cheat. Maybe it’s because of parental ex­ pectations, maybe it’s because of the school’s expectations. Or perhaps it’s because these students felt their own need to appear as smart as some of their friends. Emotional literacy is just as important as academic literacy, if not more so.

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