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![Tai Chi for Kids
David Lipschitz
9th July 2015
Research
Schools
Special "rooms"
Actually part of a class
room for example
Although teachers cannot control what
happens outside a classroom, teachers
can teach kids techniques to reduce and
manage their stress
For relaxation
Tai Chi before or
during a class
Stress
Children can
experience a lot of
stress
Repetition
8 times
Relaxation
exercises are
essential
Enhance
Health
Imagination
Children love the idea of playing with
or pretending to be animals
Children love to show other
children how to perform
specific movements
Play
Kids laugh all the
time while learning
Discipline
Especially when parents are
involved with their children
Tai Chi leads to
Happiness
[Liking who you are
and what you do]
Health
Books
"Tai Chi for kids" by Olson
"The Power of
Relaxation" by
Thomas
"Using Tai Chi and visualization to
Reduce Chidren's Stress"
Causes of stress and
tension in kids
The usual suspects
Long hours in
school or child care
Moving
Divorce
Bullying
Abuse and neglect
Illness
Plus
Sedentary lifestyles
"Junk food" diets
Video and computer
games for "relaxation"
Mind numbing
Refugees
Ideas
It must be fun
The Fun
language of Tai
Chi
Snake slithers down
Grasp sparrow's tail
Big bird spreads wingsWhite crane
spreads wings
Some of our usual phrases might
need to be changed to accommodate
the younger audience
Part wild horse's mane
Wave hands in clouds
Golden rooster
stands on one leg
Open the window,
gazing at the moon
Three rings
around the moon
Holding up the sky
Exercise
Even though we aren't moving fast or pushing weights,
we exercise every part of our body and we take it
through its entire range of motion
Co-ordinated
movements (if you
want)
Stretching
There must be
some "action"
But kids must understand that Tai Chi is
about defense, not attack, although we do
learn attack techniques
Like water
Strong yet gentle
Flows around anything that
gets in its way, never fights
with anything
Yet, carves out rivers and canyons
Kids must learn that there is
strength in having strength
but not using it
Kids must be
taught self-defense
Of the body
Of the mind
Of a strong mind
Low ward off
High ward off
Play the guitar
The kids must want to do it and must
want to come back for more
Part of the curriculum?
But mustn't feel "forced"
Expectations
This is a sport (or an activity) where the only benchmark you have is
against yourself. It allows you to progress at your own
pace. You can always see what others can do, but there are
no marks and no grades and no competition. This is very
different to almost everything else we do in life, and it
opens our minds
A whole of life
experience
We can do Tai
Chi Our whole lives
Keeping the body and mind
active one's entire life
Stretching Balance
We might do things in
a different order
Questions
Can we modify some of the techniques for
younger people and then teach them proper
(adult) techniques later
Implements
At what age should kids start
using swords, staffs, fans
Will they hurt each other or will they be responsible?
Perhaps this
responsibility can be
taught?
Energy
Can we explain the parts of the
body that are healed with the
exercises we do?
My learning
Calm my very active mind
for 3/4 hour per day
A moving meditation
Integrating left brain
and right brain
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A Power Point Presentation offering some tips to help one cope with stress. Done by Bro. Oh Teik Bin, Lower Perak Buddhist Association, Teluk Intan, Perak, Malaysia. Please download for some background music and animation effects.
Coping With Stress
Developing the right mindset, avoiding unrealistic goals and comparisons to others, and learning to accept inevitable things can help manage stress. It is also important to make decisions when needed, think problems through systematically, and avoid procrastination. Regular exercise, adequate rest, a balanced diet, spending time with friends, and practicing relaxation techniques can further reduce stress.
What's holding you back from exercise?
This document discusses various reasons people may not exercise regularly and provides suggestions to overcome barriers to exercise. Some key points:
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- Limiting beliefs, excuses, lack of time, and prioritizing others over self-care are common reasons cited for not exercising.
- To start a regular exercise routine, it's important to find an activity you enjoy and see immediate benefits from, like stress relief or a sense of accomplishment.
- Making exercise a priority and committing to a minimum of 3 days per week can help form a habit. Focusing on improving over time, rather than
Mindfulness
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Today, we live in a world full of demands, personal and professional. With the increasing demands, meeting deadlines, increasing productivity, achieving targets, facing competition, our lives have become nothing, but more complex. With so much to accomplish keeping in mind our time constraints, stress is inevitable. The only way to handle a stressful day is to learn how to manage it; this is possible only by acquiring skills on how to handle stress. This course touches on various key aspects such as identifying stress and its causes, approach to stress and dealing with it calmly, changing your attitude and outlook, techniques to overcome stress and working with a positive mind set.
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2) Practicing gratitude, taking care of your physical and mental health, and maintaining a positive mindset can help you effectively deal with and overcome challenges.
3) Having confidence in your own abilities is key to believing that you can achieve your goals, even in the face of difficulties.
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Stress Management.pptx
This document discusses stress management and coping with stress. It defines stress and explains how stress affects the brain and body. While stress affects everyone differently, it is common to feel stress during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The document provides tips for managing stress, such as identifying stressors, exercising, spending time with others, making time for fun activities, managing time well, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and learning to relieve stress in the moment.
Helping Children Handle Stress
This document discusses sources of stress for children, signs of stress, and how parents can help children manage stress. It identifies common stressors like transitions, academic pressure, conflicts at home, illness or death of a loved one. Parents are advised to build trust, encourage expression of feelings, teach coping skills, spend quality time together, and monitor their own stress levels. When children seem stressed, parents should listen without judgment, validate their feelings, engage in calming activities, and seek help from professionals if stress persists. The overall message is that providing love, support and coping strategies can help children better handle life's stresses.
Elearning-How to cope with stress at school
The document discusses managing academic stress. It recommends dividing work into manageable chunks and studying consistently each night rather than trying to cram. It also suggests identifying sources of stress like peers, parents, teachers or oneself and addressing unhelpful sources as able. Additionally, it advocates eliminating stress through positive thinking, pursuing passions, maintaining routines and schedules, exercising, and making time for fun. The overall message is that academic stress can be reduced by organizing time efficiently and prioritizing mental well-being.
Stress Management Workshop
Stressed out? Take a look at the SSTC Stress Management Workshop and get the tools you need to live a stress free life!
Mantras to Health and Wellness
1. The document discusses five mantras for maintaining health and wellness: exercise regularly, eat a nutritious diet, drink plenty of water, manage stress effectively, and maintain a positive outlook.
2. It emphasizes the importance of exercise, nutrition, hydration, stress management, and developing a sense of humor for physical and mental health.
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AIPT stress mgmt presentation.pptx
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Childhood stress (1)
- Childhood stress can have lasting impacts on brain development and health. Stress in children is often exhibited through physical, emotional, or behavioral signs. Common causes of childhood stress include parental stress, schoolwork, friendships, sibling rivalry, abuse, illness, and overly packed schedules. Parents can help reduce stress in children by providing a calm and stable home environment, spending quality time together, being attentive listeners, building their child's self-esteem, and teaching relaxation techniques. When stress becomes excessive, seeking professional help may be necessary.
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