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  Good morning my friends and welcome to today's Mindful mornings

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  everyday we are practicing the art of

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  mindfulness which means getting our bodies our

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  minds ready for the day so that we can focus on being in school?

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  So we can focus on the one thing that's our job

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  for today which is to learn and to be with friends.

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  I know there may be things that worry us at home.

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  There may be lots of thoughts going through our head

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  but to be mindful

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  to be the best version of yourself we have to

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  really focus our minds on being the best student.

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  Everything else

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  will have its own time for us to focus on.

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  But right now

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  we focus in class

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  and to get us to do that we will try our mindfulness activity.

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  So go ahead and sit in your chair, you have your desk in front of you.

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  Go ahead and pick

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  one item

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  that's

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  in your desk or on your desk or that you have with you.

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  Just go ahead and pick one thing.

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  I have

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  a mini jungle. So I'm just gonna pick one block.

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  So go ahead and pick your item.

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  It could be your notebook, it could be your pencil,

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  it could be maybe a cup that you have next to you,

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  anything in your desk that you want to pick.

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  Go ahead and do that. Now

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  you got it

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  okay. It doesn't really matter what it is.

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  Go ahead and take your item in your hand

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  and we're gonna notice

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  every detail.

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  Go ahead and spin it around.

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  What does it feel like?

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  Place your fingers on it.

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  Does it feel soft?

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  Does it feel hard?

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  Does it feel squishy? Maybe

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  smooth.

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  Mhm.

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  What shape is it?

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  What shape is your item?

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  Is it a rectangle

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  circle

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  square?

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  And we had to triangle?

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  Maybe it has an odd shape?

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  Hmm.

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  Does it make a sound when you tap it

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  or when you scrape it? Does it make a sound?

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  Does it look the same on every side?

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  Hmm.

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  Go ahead and smell it.

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  What does it smell like?

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  Some of you might have to put your mask down to smell it,

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  Maybe that wasn't such a good idea.

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  Hmm

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  Okay, if you put your mask down, go ahead and put it back up,

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  we can still feel it

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  and look at it

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  when we notice things.

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  We are being mindful because we might see things that we didn't notice before.

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  You thought maybe this has always been soft.

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  But when you feel it, you realize that was actually not soft

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  and we wouldn't have noticed that until we took the time

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  to really focus on that item.

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  And I don't know about you friends.

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  But I, when I was noticing this item, I wasn't thinking about anything else

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  and for a moment my mind felt kind of calm and I hope that helped you too.

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  So that was our mindfulness activity for today.

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  Let's go ahead and move on to our affirmations

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  are affirmations are what we tell ourselves every day for, what we want to become,

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  what we want to get better out or to help ourselves feel better.

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  We've been talking about being kind to others. Well, we have to be kind to ourselves.

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  We don't tell ourselves things like I'm not smart. I don't get this. Nobody likes me.

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  We don't want to tell ourselves those things. That's not being kind.

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  We want to tell ourselves these things. So repeat after me.

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  I grow

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  from challenges.

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  I grow from challenges.

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  I grow from mistakes.

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  I grow

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  from mistakes.

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  I can solve problems with friends.

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  I can solve problems with friends.

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  Last one,

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  I can solve problems with family.

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  I can solve problems with family.

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  Maybe that means some of us have to apologize to our moms and dads.

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  The aunties are sisters and brothers for being mean. And that's okay.

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  So thank you for joining me today on mindful mornings. I'll see you all tomorrow.