{"id":1812,"date":"2015-10-09T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2016-01-13T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T10:56:20","slug":"mindfulness-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/2015\/10\/09\/mindfulness-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yvonne Coyle and Siobhan Wilson attended the S4 curricular evening for parents at Mearns Castle High School on Wednesday. This was to introduce the mindfulness project that is going to be carried out in the school. Mindfulness\u00a0has been defined as “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experiences moment by moment\u201d (Kabat-Zinn, 2003, pg 145).The\u00a0growing body of evidence suggests that\u00a0mindfulness interventions can \u2018improve the mental, emotional, social and physical health of young people\u2019 by reducing stress, anxiety and improving sleep and self-esteem, bringing about increased calmness, relaxation and emotional regulation (Weare, 2012).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Staff from Mearn Castle\u00a0also displayed a sand mandala (shown in the pictures below) which is an Tibetian tradition involving the creation and destruction of a mandala\u00a0made from colored sand.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yvonne Coyle and Siobhan Wilson attended the S4 curricular evening for parents at Mearns Castle High School on Wednesday. This was to introduce the mindfulness project that is going to be carried out in the school. Mindfulness\u00a0has been defined as “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/PsychologicalService\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}