{"id":125,"date":"2020-06-01T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:54:55","slug":"message-from-gozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/2020\/06\/01\/message-from-gozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from GoZen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less stress, more impulse control<br>Less anxiety, more emotional awareness<br>Less distraction, greater motivation<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of research-based benefits from practicing mindfulness goes on. In times like these, it&#8217;s easy for kids to feel they have no power to change the world around them. While some things are out of our control, how we navigate and transform our emotions remains in our power. Mindfulness is a pathway to transformation; it&#8217;s also something we can teach to kids and tweens alike.<em><br><br>So, how do we get tweens to engage in mindfulness?<\/em><br><br>If your tweens are into fantasy, anime, manga, or comic books, try this week&#8217;s free printable called Galaxy Breathing. Every exercise includes beautiful original art as well as a simple, mindful breathing technique.<br><br>1) Grab your FREE\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gostrengthsftp.s3.amazonaws.com\/Printables\/GalaxyBreathing_GoZenPrintables.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Breathing Exercise Booklet Here<\/a>. Be sure to download the PDF before printing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less stress, more impulse controlLess anxiety, more emotional awarenessLess distraction, greater motivation The list of research-based benefits from practicing mindfulness goes on. In times like these, it&#8217;s easy for kids to feel they have no power to change the world around them. While some things are out of our control, how we navigate and transform <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/2020\/06\/01\/message-from-gozen\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabbagl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}