4/25/22

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  Good morning my friends and Happy Monday.

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  Welcome to another full week of mindful mornings

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  where we are practicing the art of mindfulness

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  which means being in the present moment

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  focusing on only that one thing that is in front of you.

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  It is focusing on your breathing.

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  It is focusing on how your body feels

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  and how you're showing how your body feels to everybody else.

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  So for today's mindfulness activity. Friends we will be doing a muscle relaxation.

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  So go ahead and sit comfortably in your chair

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  and we're gonna start as always with our deep breath in,

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  hold it

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  and out

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  and we're gonna start at our shoulders, this muscle relaxation at our shoulders.

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  So what you're gonna do

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  is pull up your shoulders really tight,

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  pull them as close to your neck as possible and holding it really tight

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  and now you're going to let go

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  next.

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  What you're going to do is you're gonna bring your arms close together,

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  arms close together to your chest and tighten your chest,

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  tighten those arms into your chest

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  and let go

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  next. We're moving to our arms.

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  So go ahead and clench your fists,

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  clench your arms into fists and tighten your arms just like this.

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  Go ahead and tighten it

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  and

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  let it go,

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  wiggle your fingers as you let go.

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  Now we're moving down to our stomach. So go ahead and tighten your stomach,

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  tighten those abdominal muscles in your stomach as much as you can.

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  Oh my God

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  and the last one we're going to do for today is just our legs.

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  So go ahead and tighten your legs as much as you can. You tighten those thighs,

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  those muscles in your legs, in your thighs holding it.

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  Um

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  Let those go.

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  We have to really pay attention to what our body is feeling. Friends. We are mindful

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  of our body and when we are mindful of what our body is feeling,

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  we are able to tell everybody else also.

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  So that was our mindfulness activity for today. Let's move on to our affirmations

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  As we get closer to testing.

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  We want to tell ourselves these affirmations that help us with the test.

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  So go ahead and repeat after me.

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  I

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  I'm confident

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  I am confident

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  I

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  am a learner,

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  I am

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  a learner.

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  I have

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  a growth mindset,

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  I have a growth

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  mindset

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  And last one I learned things easily.

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  I learn things

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  easily.

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  And now the thing with affirmations are, the more we tell ourselves,

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  the more they become true friends.

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  So thank you for joining me on today's mindful

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  mornings and I will see you all next time.