4/22/22

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  Good morning my friends and happy friday.

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  Welcome to today's Mindful mornings where we are practicing mindfulness,

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  the art of being calm and being aware of your surroundings.

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  Being aware of your choices of what you say

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  and what you do.

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  It is being in the present moment

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  and really thinking about what we feel, what we think, what we say

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  and just noticing the things around us

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  that my friends is mindfulness

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  and for today's mindfulness activity we're going to be doing a script.

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  So go ahead and sit comfortably in your chair.

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  You're gonna start by taking your deep breath in

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  and a deep breath out

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  for this activity. You can choose to close your eyes

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  So if you choose to close your eyes,

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  imagine yourself

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  that you are laying on the ground

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  and you feel the grass

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  on your arms.

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  You are laying down

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  in this field of grass

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  and you feel the grass

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  tickling the side of your arms,

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  your legs

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  and your fingers.

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  You choose to squeeze the grass

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  and you feel that it's wet.

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  It feels kind of wet and cold

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  because it rained.

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  You start to move your hands

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  side to side on the grass

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  and you feel the water Sprinkle onto your hand

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  and your arms

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  and some on your face

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  you get surprised because you feel it's cold

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  so you've touched your face

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  and wipe away the water that has spilled onto your face.

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  You smile because now you hear a bird,

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  you hear a bird in the background,

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  you don't know where it is

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  but you can hear it,

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  the sound of the bird gets louder and louder

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  until you realize you feel a weight

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  on your stomach.

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  It feels as if the bird has just landed on your stomach,

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  you feel it's tiny feet

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  start to move around your tummy

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  and it's starting to tickle your tummy

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  so you laugh a bit

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  and now the bird has flown away,

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  It might have gotten scared through your laughter.

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  And now as you lay down on this grass that feels kind of wet and cold,

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  you start to feel a warmness on your face.

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  Your face is now feeling warm

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  so with your eyes still closed, you turn your head around

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  and you start to feel for the warmth.

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  You realize the sun is coming out

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  and you feel that warmth on your face.

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  The warmth is getting stronger and stronger

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  on your face and you feel it

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  all over.

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  Just then

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  your hair starts to feel a breeze.

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  You feel it in between the strands of your hair,

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  A gentle breeze flowing through

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  doesn't feel very cold,

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  but it doesn't feel very hot.

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  It's kind of like a warm, gentle breeze

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  through your hair.

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  You feel it on your face,

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  you feel it on your arms,

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  the little hairs on your arms are sticking up and it gives you ghost bumps,

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  you decide to sit down

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  and put your hands on the grass and your bottoms on the grass,

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  you decided to take one more deep breath in

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  and out.

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  And as you open your eyes,

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  you realize that you are back in the classroom

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  and you see

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  your classmates around you and your teacher

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  and friends. That was our mindfulness script for today.

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  It's easier when you close your eyes to help us feel calm for today to

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  help us feel relaxed and it will help us make those good choices for today.

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  So thank you for joining me friends and I will see you all next.