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Unit Summary

This unit will focus on exploring positive and negative emotions and managing them through using mindfulness techniques such as visualisation, meditative balances, mime and deep breathing. Pupils will understand why these techniques are important for a healthy mind to support our overall wellbeing.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to combine mime with meditative balances to help you deal with negative emotions and you can use positive feelings to try and combat negative feelings.

Key Notes

• Move: mime sequences combined with meditative balances require movements and stillness to portray different emotions.
• Move: to improve our mime and meditative balance sequences, the actions must flow.
• Think: it is helpful to be able to link the emotions expressed in our mimes to the relevant meditative balance.
• Feel: to manage our emotions throughout the day, we can use meditative balances to focus and calm our bodies and minds.
• Connect: we should strive to help others in the group who find meditative balances and relaxation techniques difficult.

Vocabulary To Learn

• meditative: being very calm, quiet and focused
• mime: acting without words by using only gesture, expression and movement
• flow: refers to achieving a smooth and efficient sequence of tasks

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Pupils struggle to relate to some of the negative emotions explored in the lesson and therefore don't see the benefit of practising the mime and meditative balance sequences.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Create movement sequences to express emotions Study Guide
• Interpret music to create expressive movement Study Guide
• Performing meditative balances incorporating mindfulness techniques Study Guide
• Use mime to explore positive and negative emotions Study Guide
• Use mindfulness techniques to help manage emotions Study Guide