To Cultivate a Mindfulness Practice, You Need to Do Just That: Practice
More and more evidence is showing the benefits of mindfulness practice; however, the media portrayal of mindfulness is misleading and has me feeling conflicted.
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Rebecca Nyquist Baelen
Rebecca Nyquist Baelen is pursuing a Ph.D. in education policy at the University of Pennsylvania, focused on using positive psychology to enhance teacher education and to create cultures of human flourishing. She taught for five years and spent another two as a research coordinator at Character Lab, studying ways to measure and cultivate grit, self-control, and mindfulness. She received an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania. (Email: rnyquist@gse.upenn.edu)
The Mindful Student
It’s 8am. You’re in the back of a 6th grade science classroom. The students are sitting up tall in their chairs, their eyes gently closed.