mindfulness resources for adults
Mindfulness and meditation have become buzzwords in clinics, schools, and boardrooms, yet integrating them into daily life is often challenging. These powerful practices can be made more accessible when the themes, methods, and life skills that fuel them are taught using games simple enough to share with children. Mindful games explore the following important elements derived from psychology, philosophy, theology, neuroscience, education, and contemplative traditions:
Six social, emotional, and academic life skills — quieting, focusing, seeing, reframing, caring, and connecting — that help us become less reactive and more aware of what’s happening within and around us
six introspective methods — anchor practices, awareness practices, body scans, analytical practices, movement and visualization — that develop these crucial social, emotional, and academic life skills
Universal themes that help us navigate the ups and downs of workaday life with wisdom and compassion
Many children think meditation is easy, while adults find it difficult at first. But it’s important we work through the challenges because our own internal mindfulness has a powerful effect on everyone in our lives. Brief, frequent periods of practice help caregivers develop greater mind-body awareness, cultivate caring, connected relationships, and reduce stress.
Practicing on our own is terrific, and so is practicing mindfulness together. When we practice with our kids, partners, or friends, we’re not just tuning into our own experiences; we’re tuning into the other person’s inner and outer worlds too. Mindfulness together is relational mindfulness, where we watch, listen, sense, interpret, and respond to what other people say and do in a way that we better see and understand them, and that they feel seen and understood. Relational mindfulness happens all the time — when team members play together in a basketball game, they are in tune with each other and themselves, as are actors when they’re improvising a comedy sketch.
50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances.
Mindful play is a great way for kids to develop focusing skills while learning to regulate their emotions and respond to any situation calmly, with kindness and compassion. Here are sixty simple and accessible games that can bring mindfulness to your daily routine.
The mindful awareness techniques have helped millions of adults reduce stress in their lives. Now, children—who are under more pressure than ever before—can learn to protect themselves with these well-established methods adapted for their ages. Based on a program researched by UCLA, The Mindful Child is a groundbreaking book, the first to show parents how to teach these transformative practices to their children.
50 practical tools to ease anxiety, overwhelm, and stress by recognizing the enduring sense of love and well-being that’s with us regardless of our circumstances.
A deck of fifty-five mindful games for kids that takes a playful approach to developing attention and focus, and identifying and regulating emotions--by the author of Mindful Games and The Mindful Child.
How much good news does it take to balance out a single piece of bad news?
Mindfulness-based strategies that target stress-management, pain-management, and quieting often encourage a light focus on the out-breath because that simple shift in attention can ease both physical and mental discomfort.
For six short minutes, pause and listen to what's happening in and around you. In this live recording from a webinar for parents.
We can broaden our bandwidth and use mindfulness skills to parent with more presence during difficult times.
We’re in the middle of one of the greatest tests for parents in modern memory. Tens of millions of us, cooped up in our homes with our kids, as a consequence of the coronavirus. Susan Kaiser Greenland can help.
In the following visualization, we cool strong emotions by filling an imaginary coconut shell with compassion and pouring it over our heads.
Learn about Susan’s books and other offerings, and how they relate to one another.
A video of my presentation at the 2019 Simms / Mann Think Tank exploring mindfulness-based ways to free yourself from emotional reactivity, patterned thought, and biased thinking.
Are you game to try a pizza meditation?
You can think of anything you like in this meditation.
Except for pizza.
We use an awareness meter and barrel of plastic monkeys to demonstrate how to work with thoughts and emotions when we meditate.
Watch Susan talk about caring with wisdom and compassion on Tergar Meditation Community’s YouTube Live channel.