Pfizer
Stress Lessons Toolkit
A unit plan that is over 50 pages in length offers lessons and activities that define stress, practice breathing techniques, bring awareness to triggers, refocus worries and fears, and offer practical problem-solving strategies. The unit...
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Introduction to Mindful Breathing
Ten minutes are all you need for a breathing exercise designed to bring calm and focus. Young scholars get their wiggles out, then shift their gaze and belly breath, paying close attention to how they physically feel.
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Introduction to Mindful Breathing
The first of eight lessons introduces learners to Breath Awareness—an exercise that brings focus and thoughtfulness through breathing before engaging in other activities.
Health Smart Virginia
What Is Mindfulness?
Stop. Breathe. Think. A richly detailed lesson on mindfulness introduces freshmen to meditation as a coping strategy to deal with stress.
The New York Times
Breathing With a Pinwheel
A pinwheel encourages deep breathing to calm one's body and recenter their thoughts. Scholars breathe into a personal pinwheel with different types of breathing patterns then answer a question about how they feel.
Thoughtful Learning
Using Progressive Relaxation
Stress makes a mess of our minds and bodies. Like a vicious circle, stress causes our bodies to tense and makes it more difficult to get rid of the stress. Break the cycle for you and your students by practicing progressive relaxation....
Science Museum, London
Making the Modern World: Stress Management
This website contains 7 chapters dealing with stress and ways to deal with it along with links to related materials.
Other
Benefits of Prayer Wheels
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the use of the Tibetan Prayer Wheel. Explains why Tibetan Buddhist use the prayer wheel. Discusses the different kinds of prayer wheels and the mantra Om Mani Padme Hung. Includes a glossary of...
Other
Psych Web: Psychology: An Introduction: Chapter Three: States of Consciousness
Discusses in detail what consciousness is, its function, how scientists study it, and four different states of consciousness, including sleep, hypnosis, meditation, and psychoactive drugs. Includes comprehension questions throughout.
PBS
Pbs Frontline: The Alternative Fix
Investigate the expanding industry of alternative medicine, pondering whether this is good medicine or just good business. Analyze the role of government in regulating the industry, and explore alternative treatments and therapies...
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements
This Washington State University site provides a wonderful source for all the literary movements that have taken place in American Literature from 1620-1920. Click on the movement (listed on the left)you are interested in (Naturalism,...
Luther Seminary
Bible Tutor: Psalms
This site from The Bible Tutor provides an excellent introduction to the Psalms that discusses their religious significance and categorizes them. Links are provided to several individual psalms as well.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Fundamentals of Buddhism: Pre Buddhist Background
A site detailing Buddha and the fundamentals of Buddhism. Provides a brief history of India in relation to the growth of the spiritual movement.
Other
Meditation Station
The official website of the Meditation Society of America offers information on what constitutes meditation with 108 meditation techniques, meditation classes, and links to related sites.
Other
Access to Insight: Lay Buddhist Practice
An online guidebook to lay Buddhist daily practice. Information on meditation, chanting, and "The Laity's Practice of Dhamma."
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Meditation
This site from MayoClinic.com provides great information on meditation. The article is entitled, "Meditation: Calming your mind, body and spirit". Describes what meditation is and how it works, along with giving a list of links.
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries: Tibetan Healing Mandala
A site in response to the September 11 tragedies. Twenty Buddhist monks constructed a madala at the Sackler gallery.
WebMD
Web Md: The Mysterious 'Medication' of Meditation
WebMD features an article on the medical uses of meditation.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Yoga
Reference tool for learning about yoga. Find out what you'll need to wear, what gear you'll need, how to do yoga, what the different yoga types and positions are, and why it is a great exercise for the mind.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: Puritan Meditation Tradition
This site defines the meditation tradition and analyzes its history and use in Puritan literature and theology. Contains a bibliography of works as well as images of selected writers.
Other
College of Saint Benedict: Health Advocates: Time Management
This article explains techniques for time management.
Other
Meditation Therapy: Brief Instructions for Seated Meditation
A set of instructions for seated Zen meditation.
Other
American Meditation Institute: A Systematic Procedure for Meditation
The American Meditation Institute for Yoga Science & Philosophy provides this step-by-step procedure on how to meditate.
Other
Tm Program: Transcendental Meditation Scientific Research
Scientific research on the health benefits associated with Transcendental Meditation. Over 30 years and 500 studies verify its effectiveness.