2/8/22

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  Good morning my friends and welcome to mindful mornings where we are practicing

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  mindfulness.

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  So mindfulness means being fully here

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  we are focusing on where we are right now.

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  So for today's mindfulness activity.

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  I like to bring out this today.

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  This fidget toy.

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  I'm sure a lot of you have seen it in class or maybe at the store. Maybe you have one.

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  And I want to show you a way that you can use this

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  to be mindful.

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  I know some of us use it for constant movement because

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  we need it in order to be able to focus better,

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  but others may use it as a tool

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  to calm down.

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  Others may use it as a tool

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  for mindfulness.

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  So I will show you how to use it. You can go ahead and pretend you have one in your hands

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  and next time

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  you have it in your hands

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  you can choose to be mindful with it.

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  So what do I do

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  as I grab it in my hands,

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  I feel it,

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  I feel the surface of it.

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  It's very hard,

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  it's rough

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  and I closely pay attention.

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  The clicky noise it makes

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  if you really focus

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  you may hear the quickie noises.

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  So to be mindful,

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  I pay attention to the clicks

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  and I feel the sensations that it causes in my ear,

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  in my hands

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  as I am moving it around

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  using it.

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  I can see the different shapes that it is making.

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  I'm not just

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  moving it around. I'm being very mindful with that,

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  seeing that sometimes it makes this shape

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  and this one,

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  you can make it into a square

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  circle.

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  I can try making a triangle

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  so many different shapes that we can focus on while we are using

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  these fidgets

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  for our mindfulness but also

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  as a way

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  to use our hands while we focus on other things.

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  And that friends is mindfulness.

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  So let's move on to our affirmations where we remember we get to choose who to be.

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  We get to choose how we want to live our lives and who

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  we are becoming.

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  So go ahead and repeat after me.

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  I

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  am brave.

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  I am

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  brave.

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  I

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  am mindful.

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  I am mindful.

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  I

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  am extraordinary.

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  I am extraordinary.

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  And last one

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  I am who I choose to be.

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  I am who I choose to be.

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  That shows you you have a choice in every decision you make.

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  You have a choice and a lot of things. Friends sometimes it doesn't feel like it.

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  But you get to choose to be a good friend.

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  You get to choose to be a good student and make good choices and sore and

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  you get to choose to be the best deliberately you can while being at school.

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  So thank you for joining me today on mindful mornings and I will see you all tomorrow