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Here is a fun and easy lesson to teach your students about determination and never giving up! This is a simple, no-prep lesson that includes everything you need to help your students understand the concept of determination - all you need to do is print the supplemental worksheet(s)! It can be used as part of a school counseling curriculum, or as a stand-alone character education lesson. This lesson is appropriate for students in grades 2nd - 5th and has been used in a diverse school setting with many English Learners. This resource includes: Detailed lesson plan with a guided script for the presentation PowerPoint to accompany your lesson (can also be uploaded into Google Slides™) that includes opportunity for student discussion A no-prep game that gives students an opportunity demonstrate determination through teamwork and physical movement Alignment to ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors and CASEL Standards 2 coloring pages 4 additional worksheets/reflection pages A list of suggested book companions Have any questions or concerns? Feel free to comment below, send me a message on TPT, or reach out via e-mail. Follow along for more: Your Counselor Friend on Instagram: @yourcounselorfriend [email protected] Terms Copyright © Your Counselor Friend. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying or sharing with anyone outside of your school building is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for Terms of Use.
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It's no secret that I think Bikram Yoga is the best thing ever, besides Mexican food of course. While I understand Bikram may not be for everyone, I thought I would share some things I have learned that might help your Bikram experience. 1. DRINK LOTS OF WATER- I cannot stress this enough. Drink at least 16 oz. before class. Drink enough during class so you do not feel thirsty. After, drink enough water to replenish your body of all the water you lost during class. When I drink enough water daily, I don't get very thirsty during class. Go here to learn more about water intake for Bikram. I seriously drink about 100-150oz of water a day. It does take effort to drink this much water and I get sick of waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, but I have noticed a difference! 2. Stretch between classes, before class, and after class- the more you stretch, the more your body gets used to it. You will have an easier time in class if your muscles are more flexible. And no, you do not need to be super flexible to do yoga. It is ok if you can barely touch your toes standing up, as long as you have the right form. 3. Wear breathable clothes- I learned this the hard way. Running shorts are a big NO. So are cotton t-shirts. You want to wear something tight fitting. You don't want your clothes to get in the way when you are trying to hold a posture. You want clothes that are breathable and moisture-wicking so that you stay cool. I also like to wear as little as possible, since extra fabric just means extra heat (it takes a few classes before you are used to being half naked in front of people. It is no less fabric than a swimsuit, though). I would love to wear some awesome Lululemon, but my old volleyball spandex and Target sports bra get the job done without the expensive price tag. 4. Bring the right gear- I talk about some great yoga gear here. If you don't have a towel mat, bring a towel to put over your regular yoga mat. You will be slipping and sliding if you do not. Also bring a towel for after so you don't drip sweat all the way home. 5. Bring an insulated water bottle- Seriously, cold water makes all of the difference. When you are so hot you can't take it, ice water is just what you need. If you bring a plastic water bottle, that cold water will turn to hot in about 5 minutes. I use a tervis tumbler because I like having a straw and it works great. There is still some ice by the time class is over. 6. Don't come too hungry or too full- Of course, you need to have energy for the class, which you get from eating. But, if you eat too close to class, you will pay for it. There is nothing more uncomfortable than twisting and turning with a full belly. The best thing to do is to eat about 3 hours before class. 7. Sit in class before it starts- Your body may need some time to adjust to the heat. If you go in right when class starts from the nice, cool air conditioning, it will take your body longer to adjust while you are trying to focus on the positions. 8. Sit towards the middle of the room- The corners of the room are by far the hottest. The closer to the middle you are, the cooler you will be. If your goal is to sweat as much as possible, ignore this tip. 9. Keep your mouth closed and eyes open- Breathing in and out of your nose is not natural for everyone. Before I started yoga, I was a mouth breather. It took me awhile to get used to inhaling and exhaling through my nose. Breathing through your nose allows more air to enter your system. It also feels natural to close your eyes. Resist the urge! I know from experience that closing your eyes at all during class will make you dizzy and nauseous. You don't want to be the one who passes out in class. 10. Don't wipe your sweat!- As hard as it is, don't do it. I like sweating when I am working out because it feels great and refreshing, but the dripping feeling on my face drives me bonkers. We sweat for a reason. Sweat helps our bodies release heat and regulate body temperature. If you wipe your sweat off, your body will retain heat and you could potentially overheat. I hope these tips help and encourage you to get out there and try Bikram. You won't be sorry! Until next time,
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There’s all this talk about killing off the ego, as if the same intelligence that holds up the sun and spins the earth made a mistake in giving humans an individuated sense of self, as if this sense somehow precludes our capacity to understand the interconnectedness of all things. You cannot kill your ego, and any attempt to do so is, ironic as it sounds, an ego trick. Contrary to consciousness propaganda, your ego is not a mistake made by nature that you must undo with your spirit breath. If your ego mind, your conscious mind, your personality is somehow circumventing your happiness, it is because it is unhealthy. Egos get sick. Installing a New Age guru in your head isn’t going to heal your ego. Panicking over the laws of magnetic resonance (LOA) because your unwell ego is chattering through its illness (the only way it can ask for help) because you fear it will bring destruction upon your house is counter-productive. Your brain is an evolutionary masterpiece. Mind, while limited, is far from useless, innately bad, or even specifically obstructive. Your subconscious is a living library that remembers all the stories of the universe, especially the ones that are a part of you. If you stop treating your ego like your enemy, and start dealing with all the negativity in your mind with compassion and non-resistance, with reasonableness, logic and deep, abiding love, she will start to heal. As your ego is slowly and gently led to health and wellness, you will begin to realize that she has always been your ally. She only wanted to keep you safe from disappointment, rejection, and other harm caused by other sick egos. She was only trying to ward off the forces that injure the mind. As a result, she has been injured, she has caught the disease she’d spent all your life trying to ward off. Ineffective quarantine and hatred pointed inward keeps you from moving on. Without her, you would never be able to maneuver your physical life into alignment with the life that makes your heart sing. Your ego is not stopping you. She is serving you the best way she can in her crippled state. Nursing her back to health is a long-term commitment. It doesn’t matter if you live in a culture of throw-away things; this, you cannot escape. This, you may not discard. You have two choices: live with your suffering, or treat the disease. The process of healing is hard labor, but it is labor that goes someplace new. Living with a sick ego is also hard labor, but it never gets easier, and you never relocate. Instead, your heart stays in quiet yearning and the life you dream of remains impossible to align with. Instead of trying to withhold happiness and love from yourself based on an impossible demand (i.e. You may have the money, love, freedom that will make you happy if you will just shape up and stop having a broken bone, diabetes, cancer…) you could instead allow the chaos, apply the medicine, hold her while she wails and start becoming true again. Let your ego express her grief, her rage, her terror about the exile, the torture, the abuse, the invisibility and the lack of appreciative acknowledgement that rendered her a foe, when all she wanted to do is serve you, your heart, your life and your mission. Hold her like a wailing child in your arms. She has survived a war and lost it all. Her mother: your heart, has been removed from her reality, and she grieves while her mother seeks the innocent child, the victim of circumstance left behind. Let not the suffering your ego manages for you be in vain. As you resurrect her in your arms, as her true nature emerges, you will see how much you have lost, and you will grieve because it was your own blindness that has allowed this to happen. At the same time, your compassion practice will remind you that much of this distortion was unavoidable, and the holy moment when you start to love your ego will transform you. As your ego begins to get healthy, you will become more yourself. That which is untrue may not come to the temple door, for it has no offering to lay upon the altar. You need access to the truer, personal self, because only you may knock upon the door of your own Divinity. The programs in you, the secret monsters, the voices of your governments, tribe and culture have no life in you but that which you are giving them, and these elements are the swine to which divine pearls may not be thrown. It is not the ego itself that is the problem. It is a sickness that comes from ignorance of our authentic selves, made manifest that we might see with true eyes. You don’t need to kill your ego. Make it healthy and you will see its purpose. You will remember that you were created perfectly. There has been no mistake. Yes, even your (gasp!) ego serves the One Love, but it cannot serve when it is sick. ***** {Turn Your Enemy into an Ally} Comments Bio Facebook Latest Posts Alison NappiAlison Nappi is the creator of The Wildness Deck; she is a writer, a creative consultant, and spiritual teacher coaching Wild Women back to the arts of creation and embodiment through ceremony, creativity, and oracular feats of wildness and wonder. When she splits off from the pack, you may find Alison howling at the moon through a thick canopy of trees, singing songs with trumpeting daffodils, or dancing her embodied prayers around a campfire, mud in her hair. Like Alison on Facebook or send an email to be added to her mailing list. 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