- [Instructor] Welcome to mindfulnessexercises.com.
We've put together a fantastic resource
of over 300 mindfulness worksheets
for you to use in your practice.
And in this video, we'll explain a little bit more
about how these worksheets work,
and how they can best work for you.
So perhaps you teach mindfulness to others already
or maybe you're a teacher, life coach, counselor, therapist,
parent, yoga teacher, wellness professional
and you don't teach mindfulness quite yet
but you'd like to, or you'd like to go further with it.
Well, these worksheets are designed
to make it easier for you to integrate mindfulness exercises
into your current curriculum.
So, what do we mean by mindfulness exercises?
Well, of course, we know there's more to mindfulness
than seated meditation.
Meditation is great.
And, of course, it helps us to become more mindful.
In seated meditation, we train the mind
to become more steady and stable.
And with a more calm and stable mind
we react to the world around us more intentionally.
We cause ourselves a whole lot less suffering.
Our relationships improve.
We become more kind and compassionate
and ultimately happier.
So yes, we want to meditate,
but we also want to apply this steady and stable mind
to our contemplation practice.
And that's exactly what these worksheets can help us do.
That said meditation and contemplation go hand in hand.
So there's no need to wait
until your students are seasoned meditators
before you begin working with contemplative practices
like those you'll find in these worksheets.
We can work our mindfulness and awareness
from every angle all at once.
And you'll likely find that some of your students
may have a much easier time accessing mindfulness
through exercises like these
than through seated meditation alone.
So what are these worksheets?
Well, each worksheet is designed
around a topic which you can use to guide your clients
or your students toward a deeper awareness.
And you can see some of the listing of the categories here
topics such as self-discovery, or relationships,
career, self-compassion, emotional resilience, right?
In each worksheet include several different practices.
A combination of meditation, mindfulness exercises,
journal prompts, all of the above.
So let's take a look at a specific sample.
This worksheet here
is called Noticing Movement Through Breath,
and it begins with a simple grounding exercise
in which you guide your clients, your students,
to check in with how they're feeling right now
in the present moment and to become more mindful,
more aware of their body and their heart and mind
before you even begin.
And of course, you can read these worksheets word for word,
or you can simply use them
as a general guideline and inspiration.
You may already have your own method
of beginning each practice,
a particular grounding routine,
or a means of asking for presence
in those you're working with, right?
And so then you use that.
The wonderful thing about these worksheets
is that there's no right or wrong way to use them.
So then we move from here from this grounding exercise
to a simple teaching on impermanence, if you will.
This worksheet talks about movements,
how energy is always in motion refers
to our tendency to try and freeze-frame energy
and the suffering that that causes, right?
When we grasp to the good with desire
and we avoid the bad with aversion versus allowing for flow.
So again, you can read these teachings word for word
or you can use them as inspiration.
You might wanna share the physical worksheet
with your students, or simply refer to it in your practice.
And this might all depend on if you're working
with your students live, or if you've sent this along
as a homework assignment, perhaps as an email attachment.
So the possibilities here are really endless.
And then with this worksheet, after the brief teaching
we have a guided meditation.
And now not every worksheet follows this exact same format.
And of course you can also alter the format as you wish.
You have complete agency here.
So again, this meditation can be read word for word
or you could use it as a starting point to guide your own.
Take as much time here as you'd like.
This single worksheet can be a 10-minute exercise
or could transform into a full weekend workshop.
And then after our meditation here
we have our contemplation.
So there's a series of mindfulness prompts here,
that ask our students to explore the topics,
the movement of breath,
the movement of energy in more detail.
And you can have your students write
on this worksheet directly,
or maybe you have them keeping
a personal meditation journal,
or there could be no writing at all, right?
This could be prompts for discussion
during a one-on-one session or even in a group setting.
And then finally we follow up with a brief review
of this topic, a little conclusion.
So each worksheet is a little bit different,
but this here was a typical example.
And as a reminder, the possibilities for these
are really endless.
You can use them exactly as is, read them word for word,
go through them line by line with your students,
or you can use them as inspiration,
take pieces, integrate them into your current curriculum.
You can share the physical worksheets
or maybe your students
never actually see these at all, right?
Maybe they're just a personal reference for you.
And these worksheets can be integrated in to live sessions
or you can share them electronically
or within prerecorded teachings.
Use them one-on-one or use them with groups,
you get to decide also how much time you wanna spend
on each worksheet, or on each section of each worksheet.
You might find there's enough material in one
that you're inspired to expand it
into a multi-session course.
It's entirely up to you.
The beauty of this material
is that there are over 300 worksheets here.
So that's nearly one for every day of the year, right?
So you should never feel at a loss for what to teach.
Perhaps there are some topics here
that you don't normally explore with your clients,
or topics you haven't really focused on in the past.
These worksheets can then be used
to help expand your practice to new areas.
Or your practice might be focused already
on a particular area of growth, right?
Maybe you're a career counselor,
or you help clients navigate personal relationships.
And when we've been teaching in one area for a long time
it's also great to have access to new mindfulness exercises,
new ideas.
There are certainly worksheets in here
that fall within your line of work
that you can use to help inspire your practice
and just keep it from becoming stale.
And finally, let this be a resource
that perhaps allows you to expand into new areas.
Maybe let your clients tell you what they wanna work on.
You now have a library of worksheets
you can quickly and easily go to,
so no matter what might be chosen as a topic,
you can allow these worksheets
to remove any fear you might have
about addressing new issues or working in new areas.
It is our hope that these mindfulness worksheets
are of great benefit to you.
Whether to deepen or expand or practice
as a mindfulness teacher, or to help you feel confident
as you begin guiding others through mindfulness exercises.
Because if these worksheets are helpful for you
there'll be of benefit
to all the people you serve in your practice.
And we're so honored and grateful
for your interest in sharing these practices with others.
So thank you for the wonderful work that you already do
and the world thanks you for your interest in doing more.
To contact us with feedback or questions
or to join our community of mindfulness teachers
and practitioners visit mindfulnessexercises.com.