Home learning for Friday 12th June
| Warm up activity |
Mindful Jungle Movement |
- Stand mindfully with your arms relaxed by your sides. Take three soft, slow, mindful breaths. Keep your eyes open.
- Tighten and relax the muscles in your toes, ankles and legs. Lift one foot and feel your muscles working.
- Imagine you are an animal in a jungle. Begin walking silently through the jungle. Try not to make a sound.
- Feel your toes helping you balance. Feel your weight in your heels. Move your arms in a slow way.
- If you start daydreaming, pay attention to your feet again.
- Move slowly across the room. Notice how your hips swivel and your weight shifts when you turn.
- Cross the room three times, paying full attention to how you move.
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| Main activity |
Listening to your body and your mind |
As previously discussed, when we feel anxious or worried, the feeling comes from the part of your brain which controls your emotions. If your brain senses worries, the control centre sends signals all around your body, which cause things like a fast heartbeat, sweating or feeling sick.
When you feel that anxious feeling starting to build in your body, don’t panic! Here are some quick tricks you can do anywhere to help yourself feel calmer:
| Think about the ground right under your toes, can you feel it? Think about how it feels? Can you describe it? |
Imagine you have a mug of hot chocolate in front of you. Breathe in to smell it, blow out to cool it down. |
| Count backwards from 10. |
Take a moment to notice four things you can see, then three things you can hear, two things you can touch and one thing you can smell – say the name of each thing you’ve noticed either out loud or to yourself. |
Worries build up in us, like going up a hill. But just like a hill we always come back down the other side of the hill. When you are feeling most anxious try to remember that your anxiety will not last forever, and will start coming down the hill after it has peaked. You will feel calmer and calmer until your anxiety has gone. But while your worries are high try one of the strategies above. |
