11/8/21

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  Good morning students, Ellen, welcome to another full week of Mindful mornings,

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  Today is monday and to get us started on a really good week.

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  I'd like to teach you another breathing exercise that you can do

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  whenever you feel like you need to calm your body in order to make a good choice.

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  Now you may think MS Lopez,

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  why do I need to calm my body?

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  Well, boys and girls, as I've told many of you,

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  whenever we are feeling super strong emotions such as anger,

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  sadness or sometimes when we are just way too excited about something,

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  part of our brain goes

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  freeze

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  and it can't really make a good choice

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  or a logical choice.

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  So that's why we have to first calm our body

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  in order for our brain to be able to make a good choice that we're going to be proud of

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  a choice that is gonna give us

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  positive consequences.

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  So this is the breathing activity that you can try

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  so make sure your feet are planted on the ground.

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  And we are going to start by putting two fingers in the shape of a triangle,

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  just like this.

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  And as you breathe in, you are going to form your triangle down

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  and you breathe out with the triangle going in.

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  Try american breathing,

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  turn out,

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  breathe in

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  so you realize you're making the triangle as you are coming your body and breathing

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  one more time, breathe in

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  and breathe out.

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  So thank you for trying that new mindfulness activity.

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  Boys and girls and let's move on to our affirmations

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  where we remind ourselves just how much choice we have

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  and how our days will go

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  and just how much choice we have in becoming the people we want to be.

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  So repeat after me.

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  I am trustworthy.

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  I am trustworthy.

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  I am brave.

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  I am

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  brave.

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  I am an elaborate hair.

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  I am

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  and Valeria

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  And last one

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  I am a good decision maker.

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  I am

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  a good

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  decision maker.

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  So students, the more you tell yourself these affirmations,

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  the more they will become true because you will remember, Oh yes!

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  I am a good decision maker and the more you will make those good decisions.

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  So thank you for joining me today and I will see you all tomorrow.