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Winter Night Jazz Music - Stress relief - Relaxing Cafe Jazz Music For Sleep, Work, Study

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Chillhop Yearmix 2019 ☕️ jazz beats & lofi hip hop

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Deep Sleep Music for Falling Asleep & Sleeping with Black Screen • Ambient Relaxation Music

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MeditationRelaxClub - Sleep Music & Mindfulness

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Rain Sounds 10 Hours:The Sound of Rain Meditation,Autogenc Training, Deep Sleep,Relaxing Sounds

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The Honest Guys - Meditations - Relaxation

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Mindfulness Meditation - Guided 20 Minutes

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A Ten Minute Guided Meditation to Clear Your Mind

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Classroom Meditation - Grounding into Presence, Relaxation, Stress Relief, Focus, Mindfulness

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Becoming more aware of where you are and what you’re doing, without becoming overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around you.

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30-Minute HIIT Cardio Workout with Warm Up - No Equipment at Home | SELF

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35 Min Yoga for a FULL BODY STRETCH! | *Beginner + Intermediate Friendly*

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Yoga For Beginners - A Little Goes a Long Way

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OnlineJigsawPuzzles.net offers online jigsaw puzzles, free to play. We have found the most beautiful and colorfull wallpapers and pictures to generate each puzzle. You can choose from a variety of themes from the gallery containing animal, pets, dog, cat, horse, castle, anime, cartoon, food, children, motorbike, nature scenes, ships and boats, travel, spiritual, holiday and art puzzles. You can also choose the level of difficulty from a simple 6 piece cut to 247 pieces. Playing with jigsaws online help people to learn mouse control, it's educational and good fun. Enjoy this website with free jigsaws online.

History of jigsaw puzzles

The first jigsaw puzzle was produced around 1760 by John Spilsbury, a mapmaker from London uk. Spilsbury mounted a map on a sheet of wood and cut around the borders of the countries using a fine bladed saw. The end product was an educational pastime, for children to learn geography. The idea caught on and, until 1820, but remained primarily educational tools.

The Golden Age of jigsaw puzzles came in the 1920s and 1930s. The strategy was to make a cardboard puzzle more difficult, thus appealing as much to grown ups as to children. This practice began in the United States in September, 1932 with an initial printing of 12.000 puzzles. Soon after, printings rose to 100.000 and 200.000.

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OnlineJigsawPuzzles.net offers online jigsaw puzzles, free to play. We have found the most beautiful and colorfull wallpapers and pictures to generate each puzzle. You can choose from a variety of themes from the gallery containing animal, pets, dog, cat, horse, castle, anime, cartoon, food, children, motorbike, nature scenes, ships and boats, travel, spiritual, holiday and art puzzles.

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Need a little fun and games? We're so glad you stopped by. Play whatever games you like, then come back soon and see what's new!

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Tired of online games? Did you know that Mensa annually recognizes five new-to-the-market games with our Mensa Select® seal? Games receiving this distinction include SET™, Scattergories™, Trivial Pursuit™ and Taboo™. Find out more about these and other Mensa Select® winners on our Mind Games website.

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With in-person games rooms happening at gatherings and meetings around the country, is it any wonder that we have a virtual games room on our website? Our members love to be challenged and to learn, and yes, some even need a bit of a distraction from work.

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Online coloring books and coloring pages

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ColoringOnline.com is a site where you can colour online colouring pages, coloring books and mandalas. Choose from one of our many colouring pages or mandalas and colour them. Choose your colors and patterns and click where you want to color. When you’re done, you can save the result and/or share it…

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Take a deep breath and relax with these free mandala coloring pages just for the adults. In just a few minute's time, you'll have a mandala all printed out and ready to be colored.

Many adults now color as a way to relax and get creative. These mandalas, with their patterns that flow and swirl, are especially helpful in calming your mind and encouraging you to let go of your day.

There are more than 1,000 mandala coloring pages here, so you're sure to find something that catches your attention, whether you're new to grown-up coloring or you've been into it for years.

There's a great variety of mandalas in every shape imaginable, from a circular one to even one shaped like your favorite animal. You'll love these unique mandalas, most in abstract form but some in geometric, floral, and animal form.

You can find more free coloring pages for grown-ups if you're looking for more coloring fun, relaxation, and creativity. These include all kinds of adult coloring pages with animals, flowers, abstract designs, inspirational quotes, and more.

Our favorite type of pens to use when we color are Staedtler Triplus Fineliner pens. They are smooth and pigmented, and we can't recommend them enough. There are a lot of fancy papers you can print them on but we prefer regular copy paper. Use your kids crayons or markers if you'd like, you'll be surprised at what nice results you'll get.

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Relax while you create with these free mandala coloring pages

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Take a deep breath and relax with these free mandala coloring pages just for the adults. In just a few minute's time, you'll have a mandala all printed out and ready to be colored. Many adults now color as a way to relax and get creative.

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Mental health and wellbeing tips for educators

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Photo credit: Vicki Davis

Author Vicki Davis surrounds herself with sayings and thoughts to help her stay positive.

Our very lives are fashioned by choice. First we make choices. Then our choices make us. - Anne Frank

A tired teacher is a powder keg waiting for a match. In my bouts with burnout, I've learned that stepping back from the brink is about choice. These 12 choices have helped me recover and be a better teacher for my students.

Choice #1: Choose to Be Happy

First, happiness is a choice. Choose to be the first one to smile at everybody you meet. Choose to greet your students by name.

Use happy triggers to boost your mood when you get upset. I have a Pinterest Board called Happy Thoughts and another called Things That Make Me Laugh. The "Atta Girl" folder in my desk holds nice notes.

Choice #2: Choose to Disconnect

We are making a dumb use of our smartphones. Instead of freeing us up to go anywhere anytime, they've tethered us to a hamster wheel. Usually, I check email twice a day. I deleted my school email off my smartphone after several evenings because of an angry email. (We all get them.) Unplug once a week. Be a human being, not a human doing.

Choice #3: Choose to Be Mindful

Mindfulness is being called society's next wonder drug. Some meditate or practice yoga -- I pray every morning at 5 AM for at least 20 minutes. I find a sense of peace that centers me upon what is important.

Choice #4: Choose to Make Time for Sleep

Sleep loss harms your thinking, your health, and your mood. Psychologist Norbert Schwarz says, "Making $60,000 more in annual income has less of an effect on your daily happiness than getting one extra hour of sleep a night."

Realize that watching your favorite movie may not be restful when you're exhausted. Go to sleep early with your cell phone in the kitchen where it can't wake you.

Choice #5: Choose to Get Outside and Get Moving

Last year when I was in charge of prom on top of everything else, I was close to quitting. So my principal and I had an honest conversation about my struggle to stay grounded. I asked to take a 15-minute walk during morning break every day until I could get through it. Thankfully, he agreed. I packed my tennis shoes and kept them at school. It worked.

Boston University psychology professor Michael Otto says, "Usually within five minutes after moderate exercise, you get a mood-enhancement effect." Exercise is shown to be a powerful intervention for clinical depression, diabetes, and anxiety. Even five minutes of green exercise (outdoors) is also shown to boost your mood. So get outside and exercise.

Choice #6: Choose to Be Grateful

Research studies have shown that keeping a gratitude journal will "increase your long-term well-being more than winning a million dollars in the lottery." I keep a joy journal by my desk and write in it every day.

Choice #7: Choose What to Overlook

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca

Understand that you're working with others who are almost (if not more) burned out than you. Therefore, count on everyone being fussy, cranky, and tired. Let it go. Studies show that patients who've had heart attacks can improve their well-being by practicing forgiveness and working to be less angry.

Sometimes our biggest enemy is the perfect person we try to be. My kids will be happier eating a frozen lasagna from a happy Mom than a home-cooked meal served by a witch.

Choice #8: Choose the Battles Worth Fighting

Most situations that educators regret "caving in on" are those that happen in these exhausting end-of-school months. Parents are emotional. Kids are emotional, and we educators are tired of fighting the battle. Choose to fight only for what matters.

Choice #9: Choose What to Do Next Time and What to Stop Doing

Arthur Gordon says to learn to say "next time" instead of "if only." Make the mistakes of your past a signpost, not a hitching post. Remember your mistakes, but keep your eyes facing front toward your current surroundings.

There are times to say, "There will not be a next time. Enough." Some places should be left. Some relationships should be severed. Some organizations should become part of your past. Not all the time, but sometimes.

Choice #10: Choose to Enjoy the Relationships That Matter
Credit: Vicki Davis
Don't be so busy making a living that you forget to make time for living. You have relationships and hobbies. Keep them in your life.

Choice #11: Choose to Make a Schedule and Priority List

In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg shares how the things that you schedule on your calendar are more likely to be the "done" items that you check off your list. Schedule important tasks.

Choice #12: Choose to Finish Well

No matter how you started the year, choose to finish well. This is also your decision.

In the long run, a burned out teacher is of no use to her students or herself. You can choose to step back. You can do this, teacher! Your calling is noble, but you must sometimes regroup and adjust to make it.

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12 Choices to Help You Step Back From Burnout

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A tired teacher is a powder keg waiting for a match. In my bouts with burnout, I've learned that stepping back from the brink is about choice. These 12 choices have helped me recover and be a better teacher for my students.

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Long gone are the days where bullies are the biggest children on the playground or in the neighborhood. Bullying is not about physical strength. It is about power and control. Bullying may come in the form of spreading rumors, verbal threats, negative and hurtful comments, purposefully excluding someone from a group, taking something from someone else, physical attacks, and much more. This guide provides you with information about bullying including who is impacted and consequences of being bullied, questions to ask a child to discuss potential bullying, and recommendations to address bullying in schools and the community.

Racism is traumatic. It is a mental and public health issue, indeed. Systemic racism, or the systems

designed to maintain and perpetuate racial injustice, is associated with detrimental health effects, such as depression, anxiety, and hypertension among Black people living in the United States and globally. This fact sheet will explore race-based traumatic stress, symptoms of racial stressors, and activities that can foster nurturance, build resilience, and promote wellbeing.

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Mental Health Informational Topics | BlackMentalWellness

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Long gone are the days where bullies are the biggest children on the playground or in the neighborhood. Bullying is not about physical strength. It is about power and control. Bullying may come in the form of spreading rumors, verbal threats, negative and hurtful comments, purposefully excluding someone from a group, taking something from someone else, physical attacks, and much more.

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Sunday Scaries: 8 Ways to Beat the Dread

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You know that low-grade dread you feel around the same time each week as your weekend winds down? Welcome to the Sunday scaries. We might be stuck with Mondays, but that doesn’t mean they have to suck.