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Focused Attention Exercise

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With the mindfulness badges, students get the training to understand and describe the relaxation response and demonstrate its effect with a decrease in heart rate, breathing rate and blood pressure. For this badge campers describe two conditions for the relaxation response to occur: 1. * A mental device such as a sound, word or phrase repeated silently or aloud, or a fixed gaze at an object. 2. * A passive attitude. The passive attitude gets one to worry about how well one is performing the technique and puts aside distracting thougths to return to one's focus.

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With the mindfulness badges, students get the training to understand and describe the relaxation response and demonstrate its effect with a decrease in heart rate, breathing rate and blood pressure. For this badge campers describe two conditions for the relaxation response to occur: 1. * A mental device such as a sound, word or phrase repeated silently or aloud, or a fixed gaze at an object. 2. * A passive attitude. The passive attitude gets one to worry about how well one is performing the technique and puts aside distracting thougths to return to one's focus. Campers post their reflections on their wiki page on at least four of the seven benefits of focused attention exercises. The seven benefits are: 1. * Easier and better relaxation; 2. * Preventing and removing stress chemicals from the body; 3. * Enhancing resilience; 4. * Improved attention; 5. * Improved emotion regulation; 6. * Improved parasympathetic tone; and 7. * Improved health. Badge earners learn the mental stages of focused attention exercises: 1. * Mind wandering; 2. * Recognizing, kindly accepting and labeling that the mind has wandered; 3. * Gently refocusing attention to the sensations of breathing; and 4. * Maintaining the stability of attention on the sensations of breathing. At home, after choosing a place to practice their focused attention exercise, campers invest one minute (60-seconds) for seven consecutive days and then write about these experiences. Something needs to be written every day. The daily writing can go onto a paper journal and then posted to the student's wiki page. Students are encouraged to invite their guardians to join them in both the mindfulness practice and the following journal writing activities.