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Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions. Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) deal with anxiety, improve concentration, and handle difficult emotions-with a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises read by Myla Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness-the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is-is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that focus on just these scenarios, along with short examples and anecdotes throughout. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who along with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.Product Identifiers
PublisherShambhala Publications INC International Concepts
ISBN-139781611800586
eBay Product ID (ePID)176420445
Product Key Features
Book TitleSitting Still like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (And Their Parents)
AuthorEline Snel
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicMental Exercise
Publication Year2013
Dimensions
Item Height183mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorEline Snel
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States