{"id":62509,"date":"2017-12-21T18:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/?p=62509"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T18:05:43","slug":"a-mindful-minute-3-fun-mindfulness-exercises-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/a-mindful-minute-3-fun-mindfulness-exercises-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mindful Minute: 3 Fun Mindfulness Exercises For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

The goal of mindfulness is to train your\u00a0mind to observe your thoughts and feelings without judgement or\u00a0criticism. In this, you can cut out habitual, negative thought patterns and prevent\u00a0downward spirals of negativity. You\u00a0further carve a path to access expansive inner resources of\u00a0peace, contentment, meaning, and well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

One goal of these\u00a0exercises is to train the mind to purposefully focus\u00a0attention on a\u00a0present experience. Try them in the morning, before bed, or at my favorite\u00a0place\/time:\u00a0the dinner table right before you eat. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

1. Breathe like a bee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2. Create magnetic hands.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3. Dissolve a thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Looking for more mindful minute exercises?<\/strong>\u00a0Check out our GoToTheNow! mindfulness program for kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The goal of mindfulness is to train your\u00a0mind to observe your thoughts and feelings without judgement or\u00a0criticism. In this, you can cut out habitual, negative thought patterns and prevent\u00a0downward spirals of negativity. You\u00a0further carve a path to access expansive inner resources of\u00a0peace, contentment, meaning, and well-being. One goal of these\u00a0exercises is to train the mind … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,531,141],"tags":[140,75,61,155,146],"class_list":["post-62509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gozen-anxiety-relief","category-parents","category-mindfulness-meditation","tag-anxiety","tag-anxiety-relief","tag-childhood-anxiety","tag-mindfulness","tag-parenting","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gozen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}