Welcome to MindFUN! Let’s learn more about mindfulness and what it means!

So, what is MindFUN! all about? Before we get into that, let’s meet the characters who will be following us along our journey.

Meet Raja, Mindi, and Ms. Fu. Raja and Mindi are your typical primary school clasmates with your normal worries and problems… while Ms. Fu is their teacher, who’ll be bringing them through their worries and problems and helping them along the way. We’ll meet Raja later on, but for now we’ll be following Mindi and Ms. Fu

Before we jump into the learning, who wants to play Charades with Mindi?
So, Mindi will be acting out a word for you to guess. Are you ready?

Yes, the answer is Hot! Mindfun is about these things called BODY SENSATIONS: feeling hot, cold, tickly, tight, are all examples of body sensations.

Yes, the answer is Feelings! Mindfun is about feelings; whether you are happy, sad, or angry, we feel many things every day.

Yes, the answer is Thoughts! Mindfun is also about what you think - just like how we think about the kinds of homework we have, what we will eat during recess, and what homework do we have to do every day.

So, mindfun is about all these three things. The name MindFUN comes from the word “mindfulness” itself, something we’ll find out more later!

Today, we’ll be looking at being mindful of our body sensations. – next time, we’ll be talking more about your thoughts and your feelings!

So, let’s jump right into it and see what Mindi is up to today!

So, let us explore what Ms. Fu has in store for Mindi!

What do you think Ms. Fu means when she says body sensations?
Firstly, let’s get your blood pumping! Stand up and jump around, flail your arms around, and run around the room – go crazy! (be careful of your friends!)
	NOW STOP! Stay still, and close your eyes. Can you sense your heart going lub-	dub? Are you warmed up? Are you sweaty and tired? What are things are your body 	sensing?
All of these sensations are what Ms. Fu means when she says BODY SENSATIONS.

Just like Mindi, when we face certain problems in our day-to-day lives, we might sense our bodies experiencing all these body sensations:
	Our hands and knees become trembly
	We start breathing quicker
	Our palms and forehead become sweaty and clammy
	Our stomach “fills with butterflies”
	Or even when it’s very overwhelming, we feel like our hearts are about to burst out 	of our chest!

But, as Ms Fu. will teach Mindi and us, we all have two things we always have on hand as our calm-down method: our hands, and our breaths.

Let’s see how Mindi feels now after doing the exercise!
The power breath is a calm-down method.
It helps you be more mindful of what your body sensations are.

Being mindful just means knowing FULLY! the different body sensations you are experiencing- just like how we (and Mindi!) focused on the tingle of our hands, and the deepness of our breaths. There are other body sensations that you can have as well, such as the cold chills of wind and the cozy warmth of our blankets.

Many things can cause crazy body sensations, such as trembly hands, sweaty heads, and poundy hearts. What are some of these things that make YOUR hands tremble, hearts pound, and heads sweat?

Every day, there are a lot of things that can cause all of these body sensations.
	Exams: end-of-year exams causes a lot of “butterfly stomachs”
	Homework: sometimes, when we have too much homework, our heads and chest 	may experience some tightness
	Friendships: silly friends sometimes do things that make you very angry, our bodies 	may “heat up”.
	At home: our parents may nag at us to do chores, and our bodies our bodies 	become heavy and tired

BUT: By using your Hands in the power breath, you free up some space to connect with your body. This lets you use the remaining space to use your Heads to think about what to do when things get too difficult.

When we are just focused on our body sensations, we will think less about how bad it is and think less about how angry, upset, and frustrated we are about the sensations and what is causing them.

This helps us to use our HEADS to more easily solve different problems and challenges we may face:
	Talk to our friends who have made us upset
	Do our exams more carefully
	Complete our homework on time

But where does your Heart come in?  The title says Heads, Hands, and Hearts, right?
	What does the hand mean? USING OUR HANDS TO DO THE POWER BREATH, TO 	FOCUS ON THE BODY SENSATIONS
	What does the head mean? FOCUS ON THE BODY SENSATIONS, LESS ON OTHER 	THINGS, HELPS GIVE SPACE FOR US TO USE OUR HEADS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
	But what does the heart mean?

When you do the flower breath, you have to put your Heart into it. Putting your heart into it requires three things:
KINDNESS
What does kindness mean?
	Friendly, good to others, nice
	Doing the breath with kindness means you need to be good and nice to the breath, 	and yourself. Sometimes, the breath and you may not be able to free up space to 	connect your body sensations. Remember that this is ok, and to be kind to yourself 	and the breath.
PATIENCE
What does patience mean?
	Willing to wait, control ourselves
	Doing the breath with patience means that you need to be willing to wait for the 		breath and yourself, remembering that it will take a while for you to calm down.

PRACTICE
What does practice mean?
	Doing something until we are good at it.
	Same thing with the breath, we need to practice and keep doing the breath until 	we are good at it

So, remember: whenever you are overwhelmed by all these sensations, free your Hands and use the power breath, use your Heads with the space given by the breath and put your Heart into your breath.

So what have we learnt today?

Being mindful of our body sensations means… What do you think it means?
	- Understanding what kinds of body sensations I am having FULLY!


PILOT-EXCLUSIVE ONLY

Do the Five-Finger Power Breath (FFPB) every day at least once. Draw a star for every day you do it in your student diaries! Write down what kinds of body sensations you experienced after you used FFPB in your diaries as well, besides your drawing.

Since you all have been doing well with the FFPB in the session, you get to (put two free stickers/drawing two free stars) first in your student diaries!
Keep in mind kindness, patience, and practice!