Resources to provide relaxation and "brain breaks"
Mindshift CBT - Anxiety Canada
Free app for IOS and iPad: great scientifically based anxiety tools (includes guided meditations, anxiety check-ins, help to adjust your thinking and tools to help you when you need the help fast
Mindfulness can add to the quality of our lives in numerous ways, from nurturing a sense of inner peace to improving the quality of a workout, from enhancing self-confidence to facilitating deeper and more meaningful relationships with others.
In children specifically, mindfulness has been found to:
- Enhance focus in children with ADHD (Zhang et al., 2016)
- Reduce attention problems (Crescentini, Capurso, Furlan, & Fabbro, 2016).
- Improve mental health and wellbeing
- Improve social skills when well taugh and practiced in children and adoloscents
The following link, provides 25 Mindfulness activites that you may want to try!
Source: https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/mindfulness-for-children-kids-activities/
Relaxation Techniques:
1. Deep Breathing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3g-evIsaFw
2. Relaxation stretching
3. Stress Balls or stress fidgets
4. Count to 10
5. Drawing, coloring a picture or journaling
6. Guided meditation (Open the following link in a new tab)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEJbP9lvxlPR1kLayVPx_y4_Rx9M6kNne
10-minute Guided Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYnqvadurg
Articles/Other Rescources:
9 Things Every Parent with an Anxious Child Should Try
10 Ways to help your Middle Schooler handle stress
How to Help Teenage Girls Reframe Anxiety and Strengthen Resilience
Troubleshooting links - Try opening the links in a new tab