11/4/21

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  Good Morning Gallery.

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  He says, this is MS Lopez and welcome to another day of mindful mornings.

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  Can you believe this is the third time that I tried to record mindful mornings.

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  Sometimes it's even hard for me to get myself in

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  this space where I can help you all be mindful

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  when I'm not being very mindful myself.

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  So in the previous attempts of me recording this, my phone started to go off,

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  I started to hear all these noises, I felt the tag on my shirt being itchy.

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  I started to realize my hair was all messed up

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  and I was just not being present with you.

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  So I had to tell myself

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  to take a deep breath in

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  to kind of let go and put those things aside so that I can be present for you

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  and boys and girls, that's just what we have to do sometimes.

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  So for today's mindfulness activity, I'll bring out the jar again,

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  I'm gonna try this because

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  like I said, it can even be hard for adults to be mindful. Sometimes

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  mindfulness means being fully here.

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  It means only focusing on the thing we're doing right now.

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  It means

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  only thinking about the things we're learning,

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  the voices we hear around us as our friends and being in class, being a student,

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  being in a library here.

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  So, as we imagine

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  our minds sometimes can get clouded like this

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  jar where all the sweater is just all around

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  and it doesn't let us see through.

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  It doesn't let us be present in the moment with our teachers and our fellow students.

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  Yeah,

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  so if we think of our mind in this way,

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  as we take a deep breath in

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  and out,

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  we tell our brain

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  you know,

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  thank you for putting these thoughts in my head. I know they're important.

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  But right now it's more important for me to learn.

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  So I'm gonna go ahead and let all those worries and all

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  those other things go all the way down to the bottom.

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  There is that argument we had with a friend,

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  there's that thing that happened this morning.

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  We're choosing to let them all come down

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  bottom of the jar

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  and that's the last piece of glitter comes down.

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  The last thought

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  comes down

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  so that we can only focus on being a good student and learning today.

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  It doesn't work the first time around. It's okay, it takes practice.

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  You can wiggle the jar once more

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  and really focus

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  on all the movements of the twitter,

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  not forgetting to breathe in

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  and out

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  smith. The last pieces of twitter come down.

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  We are getting ourselves ready to focus in class.

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  So let's move on to our affirmations Boys

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  and girls where we remind ourselves that yes,

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  we have the power to create our own reality.

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  We make our own choices for the day.

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  So repeat after me.

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  I am

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  creative.

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  I am creative.

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  I am focused.

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  I am

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  focused.

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  I am generous,

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  I am

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  generous

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  And last one, I am powerful.

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  I am

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  powerful.

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  So these affirmations was in girls turn into the stories that we tell ourselves.

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  So the more we repeat these positive things we want in our life,

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  the more they become true because our brain starts to translate that into yes,

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  I am a generous person or

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  I am a creative person.

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  So we'll slowly start to make choices that prove that we are generous,

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  that we are kind that we are creative and powerful.

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  So thank you for joining me on today's mindful mornings

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  boys and girls and I will see you tomorrow.