From mindful listening to mindful seeing….. We had a great time playing our mystery sound game last week. It was fun to watch the kids focus SO hard on what the sound was and wrack their brains trying to think of where they’d heard that noise before. Some sounds were a lot easier (typing on a keyboard) than others (shuffling a deck of cards)!
This week we transition to mindful seeing---that concept of being observant of everything around you. The lower part of the posterior of our brains have something called the Reticular Activating System----an unconscious filter that decides which sensory input is attended to or ignored. Each moment of our waking days are inundated with sights, sounds, smells, textures, etc., but we can only absorb a little bit of it at once. By focusing on mindfully seeing what is around us, we are training our brains to focus on what we want it to, not getting caught up in everything else.
We will be doing a mindful seeing activity with marbles and following it up with a little bit of poetry writing to process what they’re seeing, so it should be an interesting week! Hopefully your child shares with you ways that you can use mindful seeing in your everyday life!
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