This exercise is a heart soother with its bilateral healing touch. It helps you transport yourself to a calm and healing space when you are looking to comfort difficult emotions and overwhelm

Our emotions are a form of energy. If you stop them, you block them. If you feel them, you heal them. They are meant to move through us. They are meant to inform us.

Empathy can be taught. The opportunity to imagine what life is like for someone facing difficult challenges, activates the compassion response. It’s an intentional, generous act of the heart.

Through our imagination we conjure up future scenarios (intentions/goals/desires), make meaning out of our current situation (drawing from prior knowledge), re-vision our past (review/analyze/adjust), and picture ourselves in other’s shoes (empathy).

What do you do when your room of students is high energy and chaotic? “Breathing Fingers” will not only will it bring your students to the present moment, but it will also teach them how to tame their thoughts and regulate their emotions.

Consciously focusing on what we are thankful for cultivates a positive energy that can permeate our psyche and color our perceptions going forward.

This is a very requested mindfulness meditation with our kiddos. They LOVE imagining their happy place, where they feel comfort, safety, and peace.

It’s the soothing balm that gives our flight or fight nervous system functions a well needed vacation. When this happens, our thoughts quiet enough to allow deeper contemplations and inspirations to surface and take root.