Studies have shown that young people who learn healthy coping skills early on are better able to navigate problems later in life and thrive as adults.
Gopala, our founder and his family have created an uplifting and fun 30 Day Mindfulness Challenge for you and your family. Together we can continue to practice Rainbow Yoga in the safe cocoon of our own homes.
Some of us may be experiencing anxiety, isolation, feeling afraid or stressed and some of us may even be quarantined at home, so it’s important that we are mindful and that we uplift each other.
Let’s use this time the world is gifting us as an opportunity to connect to ourselves and our families. Just a few minutes of connecting to our inner power helps us to stay steady and peaceful under all circumstances.
Let’s explore courage, compassion, connection, kindness and joy!
We will help you and your children or students to:
1. Handle everyday stress
2. Reduce anxiety before taking an exam at school, a performance, or a social interaction
3. Enjoy more your daily activities, such as the bus ride or walking the dog
4. Better handle arguments with parents and friends
5. Concentrate more while studying or in class
6. Positively change repetitive negative thoughts such as memories, worries, and regrets
7. Transform negative and self-harming thoughts about oneself
8. Improve your relationship with friends, family and significant others
9. Put life's challenges in perspective
10. Eliviate difficult moods such as depression and anxiety
Mindfulness techniques can provide children and teens with helpful strategies to deal with a variety of mental health issues and life challenges they face such as depression, anxiety, bullying, eating disorders, trauma, and self-esteem problems.
With their relatively short life experience, children and teens lack the skills to put life events, discomforts, disagreements and other challenges in perspective.
It is hard for them to see how in a day/week/month/year time this may not seem as significant and even good may come out of it.
As grownups, we have learnt that some things can be fixed with the right effort, and other things just need time to heal or come back into order... but those same events, may make a young person feel like it's "the end of the world" and all hope is lost. This can lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide.
Mindfulness can help a lot in creating the distance necessary from our thoughts and emotions to be able to process events in a healthier way.
We are obsessive thinkers (60,000 thoughts a day on average) and we get attached and fully identify with every thought and feeling that arises inside of us.
Even though those thoughts and feelings are very impermanent, and they move and change rapidly, without mindfulness skills we are totally consumed by them, many times to the point where we may feel helpless.
Being able to observe our thoughts and feelings and identify them, gives us the power to be free of them and even the power to change them at times.
Knowledge is power. When we don't know our inner world we are controlled by everything that arises and falls within it. When we are more familiar with it, we can more easily surf its waves.
Also, if we don't learn how to deal with stress in a healthy way, we end up doing it in unhealthy ways such as substance abuse or other harmful or self-harming activities.
Mindfulness is a simple tool to awaken the wisdom that already exists inside of you. It is a way for you to become your own best friend and advisor.
