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What is mindfulness and why are students, educators, and parents starting to practice mindfulness in school communities across the U.S. and around the globe?
Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment with openness and curiosity.

Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment with openness and curiosity.

It has a variety of research-backed impacts, including reduction in stress, and improvements in job satisfaction, emotional regulation, and focus.

Mindfulness can be thought of a "state," a "trait" or a "practice." You can have a moment of mindfulness, which is the state of your mind. You can also have a sustained experience that is more like a habit or strong tendency to be mindful, a trait. Or you can engage in a more intentional practice of mindfulness by using different forms, postures and activities, such as seated mindfulness meditation, mindful walking, and mindful eating.

Mindfulness can support and sustain you, by helping you manage the stress of today's world. Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive impact on stress, attention, and even relationships. The American Psychological Association shares research on a range of benefits of mindfulness, including:

You can read more about the research and benefits of mindfulness and how mindfulness practice can literally change your brain, here . Yet the benefits of mindfulness can take us beyond the terrain of managing symptoms to a place where we are developing our deeper human capacities for awareness, attention, empathy, kindness and compassion.

In the Mindful Schools community - educators, parents, and school community members - many of us are exploring mindfulness because we're excited to share mindfulness with our students who are facing an increasingly complex and technology-based world. shows that in addition to benefits for adults, youth benefit from learning mindfulness in terms of improved cognitive outcomes, social-emotional skills, and well being.

Watch and listen to how students and educators explain what mindfulness means to them.

But as educators, we wouldn't ask our students to do something we haven't tried ourselves. In fact, a guiding principle in the Mindful Schools community is the idea that - even before we formally teach mindfulness to students - our own self-care, self-awareness, and personal mindfulness practice serves as an essential model for our students.

The experience of mindfulness is something that is available to you in every moment of the day. But it can be very helpful to set aside a specific time to practice mindful meditation, mindful walking, or a body scan. When mindfulness becomes a "practice," you'll notice that mindful moments begin to occur more frequently throughout your day - like taking a moment to pause and breathe before rushing into the kitchen to make your first cup of coffee!

Listen to three guided mindfulness practices to get an introduction of how to practice mindfulness through breathing, body scan, and walking.

For even the most experienced mindfulness practitioners, having a daily practice can be challenging, so it helps to be able to do it together with others. Here are a few helpful tips to get started.

1. Set an intention. A regular practice is supported by setting an intention and then remembering to come back to it frequently over time. In this way you can gently remind yourself of why you are practicing.

2. Designate a place to practice. Your practice should happen in a place that is quiet and peaceful. Take time to set yourself up, creating a beautiful, calm environment that you will want to be in. Finding the right chair or cushion, the right light and sound levels and temperature is important. You can use a timer app and guided meditation, or just use a clock or bell to time yourself.

3. How much time you set aside for your practice is up to you. The most important thing is to start with setting an intention to practice, and as much as possible, sticking with it. If for some reason you forget, or are not able to practice that day, no problem, just start again and remember to do this without judging yourself. We recommend starting with 15 minutes a day. But even 1 minute is better than none, and if that's all you have in the day, that's ok!

4. Pair your practice with something or someone! One way to establish a daily practice is to pair your practice with something you won't forget to do. You can choose to practice right before you eat breakfast, right after lunch, on the train to work, or right before you go to sleep. Or practice with a friend or colleague at the same time every day - just like a team, finding the encouragement and support from peers can help you stay motivated.

5. Find mindful moments. It's also important to remember that your mindfulness practice is not limited to the times when you can sit quietly. A moment of mindfulness is any time during your day that you notice your state of mind, or when you remember to pause before responding, or when you check in with yourself and sense your breath moving through the body. A regular practice allows for more of these mindful moments to arise in the context of your daily life.

Start this week by picking a time, putting it in your calendar, and doing one of the three guided practices above. A mindful practice looks different for everyone, so be generous with yourself and give yourself permission to explore and experiment.
Curious about expanding your practice and sharing mindfulness with students? Explore our website for community events, workshops, or courses to start practicing with the Mindful Schools community.
About Mindful Schools

Mindful Schools is one of the leading organizations in the movement to integrate mindfulness into the everyday learning environment of K-12 classrooms. We've trained over 50,000 educators, parents, and mental health professionals who work with youth. These graduates, spanning 100+ countries, have impacted the lives of over 3 million children worldwide. Join Mindful Schools in imagining the possibilities of a world where every young person has access to the gift of mindfulness.

We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Learn how you can support our work.

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An empty classroom at South Salem High School has been converted into a calm room that students can visit during the day if they're stressed or anxious.

SALEM, Ore. - Kids and teens are dealing with a lot as they continue to adjust to full-time, in-person learning at school. This year at South Salem High School, there's a new addition to help students deal with their anxiety and stress.

One of the school's classrooms has been converted into a new space for students. It's called a "calm room" and it's a student-led effort that started before the pandemic.

"This is a space that's been designated by our administrative team for students to come and find a place of peace, find a place of restoration and spend 15 to 20, maybe 30 minutes here and then return back to class," said Ryan Marshall, a school counselor at South Salem High School. Marshall also happens to be Oregon's School Counselor of the Year.

Students decide for themselves at any point in the day if they need to go to the room to relax. 10th grader Sid Derosia said while in-person school is better than being online, this year has been tough on a lot of students.

"Having just a space to come and be quiet for like 20 minutes or so and then go back to class is really helpful," Derosia said.

The calm room is staffed at all times and is stocked with things conducive to relaxation.

"We've got fidget spinners, we've got [...] beanbag chairs, the rocking chairs, games, puzzles, homework space if they just need that," said Marshall. "We've got it all."

Marshall also pointed out an encouragement board with positive messages from other students attached to it.

The calm room has come together thanks to about $4,000 in grants and a couple thousand more in donations.

Meantime at Beaverton High School, a similar space opened up this year. It's called the Wellness Lab, and it's located in the high school's brand new wellness center.

"They're really serving the kids all day long. There's people in and out of there all day long for the students, so it's a really good thing that we have it," said Mary Bengel, an educator at Beaverton High School.

In recent years, Bengel began teaching courses on mindfulness and meditation. She said her classes are full and give students a chance to breathe and relax.

"The room has got low lighting. We have lovely little lamps and string lights around the room. Everyone sits on a folded yoga mat on top of the meditation cushion," Bengel said.

She said the goal is to help students remember who they are and instill a sense of self worth and confidence. Bengel agreed with what other educators have observed and said there is a lot of need this year. The result is students have shown more interest in the class.

"We have more students than we could serve," Bengel said. "It gives them tools to better understand their stress and anxiety and also to benefit them in terms of how they communicate with each other and support each other. It goes beyond school."

Hilda Guiao is a mindfulness teacher and program coordinator for Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that for years has headed up similar mindfulness classes at a number of public high schools in Portland.

"Peace in Schools was the first nonprofit to bring mindfulness as an elective class to Portland Public Schools in 2014. So yeah, we're the first in the country to offer a mindfulness elective class for credit," said Guiao.

They said in addition to more student interest, the nonprofit is working with the district to offer a burnout course for educators in the next couple of months.

Like other teachers, they've noticed students are much more stressed than previous years.

"In the eight years I've been a teacher, I've never seen this many students overwhelmed, stressed, depressed, genuinely," Guiao said.

That's why educators and students say calm rooms and other efforts are essential for students' mental health and well-being.

Marshall said the next project at South Salem High School is to try to make a similar calm room for staff. He said there are also discussions underway to figure out ways to put calm rooms in other high schools.

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Low-Income Schools See Big Benefits in Teaching Mindfulness

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