Hawn is no stranger to getting a rise out of people. Write a poem, song, or story about the power of a smile.Goldie Hawn informing schoolkids on the MindUP For Life program. Practice smiling more today and notice what happens. Pick 1 unknown/ random individual (elderly neighbor, other) or organization that helps others you don't know. Pick 1 challenging relation to do an act of kindness for and Pick 2 people to do acts of kindness for that are easy and close to you We built a Kindness Counts web with internal reflection on self care and then external care, acts of kindness towards others including some of our challenging friendships or relationships.Īction choices: for performing Acts of Kindness We worked on examples of what self care, kindness actions towards ourselves, may look like. Our brain likes it when we are nice to others. Practicing kindness strengthens our ability to understand other people's emotions, which is important for group play and later group work.īrain Connection: Our brain releases the feel good chemical, dopamine, when we are engaged in helping others (performing acts of kindness). Practicing empathy and compassion (kindness) has an emotional impact on others. Emotional intelligence is about understanding feelings of others and caring about other people's welfare (compassion). The session introduced the notion of IQ and EQ. It is part of our living working knowledge. We began with our working knowledge of kindness and acts of kindness. Play "The Best Thing about … is." Game (follow The Important Book) Post it: spread message around home, friends, school and teachers Gratitude walk: write or draw what you're grateful forĮxpress Gratitude: doing a tree for someone else or creating a tree for self or family Picked two people kids were grateful for and came up with ideas of how to express their gratitude.īooks: The Thankful Book, Feeling Thankful, I'm Thankful Each Day & The Important Book. When we focus on the people, places and things we are grateful for, our happiness increases. YouTube support: We saw short clips of Moving Art about feeling gratitude everyday, the Science of Gratitude and Gratitude is Good For You.Ĭraft: Building a gratitude tree. Being in the state of gratitude releases dopamine, the feel good chemical in our body, which also enables the pre-frontal cortex thinking. It triggers calming branch of the automatic nervous system. We also engaged memory recall about when/ where we expressed gratitude to someone.īrain Connection: We learned gratitude is a way of thinking and feeling. Each participant mentioned one experience that gave them a sense of gratitude. We started the circle with passing around a gratitude stone. “The strategy of recalling favorite memories can help with goals such as:Ĭhildren can learn to appreciate happy memories to help overcome specific negative feelings, such as sadness or insecurity. Our body responds in much the same way if we having a happy experience in the present moment or we are recalling one from memory. Reflecting on our favorite happy memories releases the feel-good hormone, dopamine. October 15, 2017: Appreciating Happy ExperiencesĮrica led the group in learning of the value of recalling happy experiences from the past to help our present moment. Videos: Viewed you tube - How to Defeat Negative Thoughts and Neuroplasticityīooks Read: Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend Yesterday I Had the Blues Rosie Revere, EngineerĪll participants agreed they would prefer to be around optimistic thinkers instead of pessimistic thinkers and would so try to be optimistic thinkers themselves! Know that worry is a feeling that will pass Perspective taking (see things from another viewpoint)Įxamine the negative thought with the evidence from the past or current reality.ĭistract the negative feelings by doing something that makes you feel good (for example, playing music, singing, dancing, joke telling, etc.) Strategies to boost positive self-talk, good feelings and optimistic thoughts:
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