According to https://missionbe.org/faq/ it can be described as the practice of paying attention in the present moment, and doing it intentionally and with non-judgment.  Mindfulness meditation practices refer to the deliberate acts of regulating attention through the observation of thoughts, emotions and body states. Typical mindfulness activities include:

• Mindful non-judgmental awareness of breath, body, feelings, emotions and/or thoughts (in sitting meditation practice or throughout the day)
• Mindful walking meditation
• Mindful eating
• Mindful body scan in a sitting or lying down position
• Listening with non-judgment

What can mindfulness do for students?

• Reduced Stress: Improved ability to manage stress
• Increased Focus: Improved ability to pay attention, focus and concentrate
• Improved Emotion Regulation: Reduced impulsiveness, improved child behavior (rowdiness, suspensions, expulsions)
• Increased Emotional Intelligence: Improved conflict resolution skills
• Increased Empathy and Respect: Increased empathy and understanding of others
• Increased Resilience: Increased capacity to overcome challenges
• Improved Physical Well-being: Increased engagement in physical activity
• Improved Creativity & Collaboration: Improved expression of creative arts.

Students will find it much easier to focus and actively engage in the classroom. The class will benefit as a whole from a collective calm. These skills can also be applied to maturely navigate challenging peer or family interactions. Students will be less likely to bully others, and those students who are bullied will be more resilient. Students are also less likely to engage in high-risk behaviors as they will be calmer and less reactive. Some immediate benefits we expect to see are:

What can mindfulness do for teachers?

• Reduced stress and burnout (and reduced absenteeism from stress and burnout related conditions)
• More easily managed classrooms
• Improved learning conditions
• Positive dyadic teacher-student relationships

Teachers will be able to spend more time teaching and less time managing the classroom and also be better equipped to handle the stresses of work. Teachers teaching students that are practicing mindfulness will also find students to be better mentally equipped to learn.

Is mindfulness religious?

No. Mindfulness is a practice  – the practice of paying attention in the present moment and doing it with non-judgment. Over the last 30 years this practice has been thoroughly researched and successfully implemented in hospitals, businesses, education and the military.

When you drive you don’t know what will happen next so you make use of all senses that are at your at your disposal, be mindful of how you travel.

Even though I have a driving licence I prefer to travel to most places by public transport or walk that way I can look at my surroundings and see what is happening.

amen to that. said to show that you agree strongly with something that someone has just said: “Thank goodness we didn’t go.” “Amen to that!”

Time can only move forward for us don’t let the computers incapacity to have a concept of time fool you. Gotta keep on moving, moving on.

Your place, space and entry in this moment in time can and does not repeat itself.

What we have is what exists, we can build on what we have but we can not press a rewind button that is machine logic and we are real human beings

LalibelaLalibela (Amharic: ላሊበላ) is a town in Lasta Amhara Region, Ethiopia famous for its rock-cut monolithic churches. The whole of Lalibela is a large antiquity of the medieval and post-medieval civilization of Ethiopia. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia’s holiest cities, second only to Axum, and a center of pilgrimage.

That took me many hours to work out. I got a new printer scanner this week and have been trying to install my scanner as it was having difficulty connecting. Well after installing new applications and from banging my head against a screen I have finally sorted it.

Hopefully I can have a short break now. I had a chest infection back in the second week of January. I remember the night it began because I was due to return to work the next day and sods law it just kicked in the Sunday before work. I felt afraid, ill, hot and a lack of sense of taste and an overwelming unwillngess to eat. I lost about a stone in the space of about 10 days. That was my only ray of sunshine with the dam virus.

I psychologically, spiritually and sociologically put up my shutters and pressed my internal panic button and refused to go out and meet anyone until after 14 days of isolation it made me feel so bad that I did not want anyone to be bitch slapped as bad as I was with this infection so isolated myself with it just to be on the safeside.

So after that moment in time I returned to work as soon as I could which resulted in my brain over revving and running on close to empty (pitying myself here, I’m sure it was not that bad). But I did feel incredibly stressed, used by my employer and taken for granted at that moment in time.

This then made me try and get a job somewhere else which I have been trying to do anyway for a year or so because me mangers are either incompitent or negligent or a mixture of the two.

So things start to get blury in time now. Still fire fighting in my work, dealing with muppet managers and desperately trying to escape.

The second to last job I applied for was to a union as an adminsitrator I would have loved to do the job and my Dad said after reading my application that it looked like I was so desperate to leave my old job it read like a suicide note (Gee thanks for your love and support Dad).

That was not how it felt when I wrote it althought I did over do it with crafting it as if to say give me this job my time is now!

Well that amouted to zero but I kept on percervering, while still holding down my 9-5.

So the next job interview I get is one for a government department and low and behold they offered me the dam job only problem now is that corona19 kicks the world royally up the ass and stops me from having a start date. I don’t feel sorry for myself at this point. If anything I have survivors guilt cause I have hope that I havve found a harbour in a huge shit storm and I am more privaleged to be able to ride it out from my bubble than most.

So thats where I have got to now I look forward to contining my journey where ever it might take me, helping and being helped by friends old and new. I have still yet to start my new job but am safe in the work space of my old to, up untill this wave passes.

At thsi moment in time to my Christian friends I do hope you have a good Friday and a Happy Easter.

May your god even bless the unbelivers too.

Cheers

Huw

Well its 04:14 on good friday here in the UK. I need to get some sleep cause I still have some work to do for my day job thanks to bloody Nora