INTERRUPTER: Art Work
Find a painting. On a wall, a calendar, a restaurant, side of a building. Do some impromptu art appreciation. Rinse (your mind) and repeat.
NEWS
Mind the Classroom
In a recent Huffington Post article, meditation instructor Robert Piper draws on his childhood experience to make an argument for mindful practices in the classroom.
Piper talks about the pressures of school--having to fit in, studying for tests--and how his anxieties turned him into a "cowboy" in class, never far from the principle's office. He argues that meditation relieved him of severe anxiety and allowed him to graduate from college.
To read the Huffington Post article, click here.
For more stories on mindfulness in the classroom, click here.
07/09/12
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