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5 Finger Meditation and Green Heart Gratitude

TODAY’S LESSON- 5 Finger Meditation and Green Heart Gratitude

LESSON CONTENT- In today’s lesson, we will join Green Heart Intern Carter for a practice of mindfulness, meditation, breathing and Green Heart gratitude.

In this lesson, students will:

• Define mindfulness and meditation and understand how to use these two techniques to calm down and practice self-control
• Learn about the importance of deep breathes as a way to promote health and increase focus
• Practice “5 Finger Meditation,” which is a technique to control breathing, calm down and reset
• Connect their breathing practice to plant “breathing”(photosynthesis) that happens in our gardens
• Define gratitude and identify 5 things that they are grateful for

MATERIALS- For this lesson, you will need:

• A device to watch the meditation video
• Your body, a focused mind and a comfortable place to sit down

Focus, relax and enjoy!