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How To Practice Visualization Meditation With Students

PLT4M

Visualization is so powerful because our body, brain, and nervous system don’t know the difference between real life and our imagination. Therefore, if we can practice visualization meditation, then we have primed our body, brain, and nervous system to be ready for the real thing when it happens.

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Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently

Skillastics

Simply put, researchers confirmed exercise helps maintain the “ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, functions, or connections.”. It works quietly, in the background. Skillastics® works in the background too.

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Mental Health Benefits of Exercise

Teen Health 101

After treatment, it was observed that patients in the exercise and antidepressant groups had higher rates of remission than did the patients on the placebo, signifying that physical activity was generally comparable to antidepressants for patients with major depressive disorder ( , American Psychological Association ).

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How To Support A Growth Mindset In Physical Education

The Physical Educator

adequate nutrition, sleep, fitness”; and Psychological Well-Being : “ e.g. positive and realistic self-statements and realistic self-appraisal of performance quality”. Feeling anxious before, during, or after a performance is a natural response from our nervous system that is just trying to prime us to be able to face challenging situations.