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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 use meditative balances effectively to improve your posture, body awareness, focus and concentration, and can use mindfulness techniques to help manage negative emotions.

Key Notes

• Move: to hold our meditative balances consistently, slow deep breathing and a strong posture help us remain still.
• Move: taking deep breaths in and out, while focusing on positive emotions, enables us to feel calm and relaxed.
• Think: meditative balances improve our focus on the positive, enabling us to relax and improve strength and flexibility.
• Feel: self-motivation helps us focus on positive emotions, calming our bodies.
• Connect: when working with others, we have to trust one another to use relaxation methods more effectively.

Vocabulary To Learn

• balance: maintain stability and control over the body's position to remain stationary
• meditative: being very calm, quiet and focused
• relaxation: when your body and mind feel calm and peaceful

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Pupils rush their deep breathing, which reduces the impact of the technique.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

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