This Moment Is Your Life (and So Is This One): A Fun and Easy Guide to Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga
by Mariam Gates (Author) Libby Vanderploeg (Illustrator)
This lively, hands-on guide to meditation, mindfulness, and yoga is a perfect introduction for tweens and teens.
Don't just do something, be here.
The key to happiness is being able to find comfort in this moment, here and now. When you are completely present and not distracted by regrets, worries, and plans, even for a little while, you begin to feel more confident and can deal more easily with everything you experience. This is mindfulness: paying attention to this very moment, on purpose and without judgment--simply being present with curiosity.
This engaging guide, packed with simple exercises and endearing full-color artwork, provides a handy starting point for bringing mindfulness into your daily life. Chapters on meditation, yoga, and mindful breathing explain the benefits of these practices, and you are free to pick and choose what to try. There are quick exercises throughout, and a more extensive tool kit at the end of each chapter. The final chapter offers satisfying five-day challenges that map out ways to pull all of the book's mindfulness techniques together in your day-to-day life.
With the appeal of a workbook or guided journal, and full of examples relevant to tweens and teens today, this book will be your trusted companion as you begin the valuable, stress-relieving work of being still with skill.
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Gr 7 Up--Gates offers an extensive guide focusing on mindfulness, meditation, and yoga as weapons to combat the daily stress young people may endure. The author does a thorough job of explaining the physical and mental toll stress can take. In addition, she recommends and describes certain exercises that help one cope with such anxiety. Each component encourages participation in either physical exercises, mental journaling, or, at times, listening to relaxing music. The variety of subjects can be accessed by looking for a specific topic. However, readers may notice some repeated information if read from beginning to end. Overall, Gates's attention to detail has a way of making stress seem manageable. In addition, readers who enjoyed the format of Karen Rayne's GIRL: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You will appreciate this title. VERDICT For general purchase for middle and high school collections.--Jeni Tahaney, Summit High School, Manfield, TX
Copyright 2018 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.Publishers Weekly
Learning to exist in the present moment is a difficult yet rewarding task, Gates suggests in this clear and instructive handbook. Chapters focus on mindfulness, yoga, breathing, and meditation, with detailed descriptions of techniques and best practices. The mindfulness section explores living with intentionality through refocusing the mind. Journal prompts, self-assessments, and other activities urge readers to apply the ideas to their own lives. Meditation activities include a "Meditative Body Scan," or paying attention to different parts of the body, and "Naming Thoughts," which involves quietly observing, labeling, and releasing detrimental thoughts. In Vanderploeg's warm illustrations, brightly clothed figures demonstrate the yoga poses and breathing exercises. Gates emphasizes that mindfulness is a way of seeing one's self and the world, which can be achieved through taking basic steps. An end section offers "5-Day Mindfulness Challenges" for readers seeking additional structure as they embark on their own mindfulness journeys. Ages 10-14. (May)
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission.Mariam Gates
Mariam Gates holds a master's in education from Harvard University and is the creator of the renowned Kid Power Yoga. She is the author of the bestselling Good Night Yoga and many other yoga-related books for children. She lives in Northern California. For more, see mariamgates.com.
Sarah Jane Hinder
Sarah Jane Hinder, illustrator, creates acrylic artwork for a variety of children's books, including Good Morning Yoga, The Three Little Pigs, and The Elves and the Shoemaker. She lives in Manchester, England, with her husband and two chihuahuas. See sarahjanehinder.com.
JNF024120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Daily Activities
JNF054000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | General
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Meditation for children
Hatha yoga for teenagers
