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Managing thoughts

17/12/2020

 
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​One of the things I have noticed with teaching teens is the increased levels of anxiety that they are experiencing.  A great deal of anxiety can be traced back to an original thought that once we begin to focus on can take on a life of its own until we literally cannot think of anything else.  I was given this visualization and simple tool by my yoga teacher as a way to help manage the nature of the mind when it comes to thoughts with the hope of cultivating awareness and reducing triggers for stress.  It uses a mobile phone as a reference to convey this idea which all teens can relate to as most of them have one.  I believe in making things teen friendly and relevant as a way to offer them support!

Materials required – a mobile phone

How to facilitate it:  
  • Hold up your mobile phone for a moment and explain that we are using the idea of a phone as a tool to practice an approach that may help us to manage the nature or our minds and recurring thoughts.
 
  • Imagine that you have something that is on your mind at the moment and it is beginning to create a level of stress.  It may be an upcoming exam, a fight with a friend or whether you are going to get a place at college perhaps.
 
  • When you notice that thought coming into your mind again visualize that thought as an ‘ID Caller’ – see the ‘ID Caller’ appear on your screen.  Decide as you see that thought whether or not you feel like answering the caller – or engaging with that thought.  Perhaps you simply see it and decide you do not feel like engaging with that ‘caller’ and ignore it.
 
  • As you begin to use this practice it enables you to look at the thought from a slightly different perspective.  Taking this approach offer the possibility for the thought to not have a hold over you, reducing potential stress and a less of a reactive response as it loses its charge gradually with no attention.
 
  • I love this analogy and have found it to be accessible for some teens.  Why not try it and see if your teen likes the idea or not?  I am passionate about finding ways to empower teens to manage their mental and emotional well being.

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    Author

    Karen Wightman is the founder of Creative Yogis. She is an experienced, local and international children’s yoga instructor, yoga teacher trainer, and children’s art teacher. 

    She currently facilitates teacher trainings and workshops in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Taiwan.

    She has 15 years experience teaching yoga to children of all ages, from pre-school to high school, and 
    has been a children’s art teacher for 30 years.

    Karen is passionate about offering a variety of unique educational yoga resources to stimulate the imagination and capture the hearts of children.

    ​She has illustrated and published children's yoga colouring ebooks in English and Japanese. A free sample is available here.

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