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Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress

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This Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress activity also includes:

An exercise offers young scholars a coping skill to manage stress or other strong emotions. Learners identify the emotion, focus on how their body feels physically, then pretend they are holding a balloon over their heads, blow their emotion into the ballon and let the string go, letting the emotion go with it.

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Concepts

stress management, stressors, self-management, social-emotional learning, Social & Emotional Learning, emotions, emotional development, identifying emotions, expressing feelings, feelings, coping skills, mindfulness

Instructional Ideas

Bring in a helium balloon to create a visual display of the exercise
Display the poem to remind class members of the exercise
Make copies of the handout and send it home

Classroom Considerations

The sixth mindful activity in a series of 10
Remembering strong feelings may be triggers for some learners

Pros

Allows participants to sit with their emotions and reflect on them before letting them go
The resource comes with a poem and a handout

Cons

None

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