ANPS TC 2020

We often don’t realize that children never “stop”. They always have their mind and body active (except when they are sleeping), as they play, study and following schedules and routines. We heard teachers complain about how difficult their students are to concentrate on their work. They can’t “stop” for a while to listen, read and analyze their work, as their ‘monkey minds’ (that’s what we call their active, untamed minds) are playing around all the time. They think about too many things at the same time. They get angry and ‘cranky’ easily as they are too tired, body and mind. They are not able to show empathy to others, as they even find difficulties to be aware and take care of their own emotions.
In this session, we are going to explore some strategies to help children to be kind, focused and calm. The mindfulness activities we will be exploring have been applied to the students at school, and it has shown a pleasing result.