![]() ![]() What do you think of Goldie Hawn’s MindUP program for children? Do you meditate with your children? Give us your thoughts in the comment box below. Perhaps most strikingly, it improved children’s executive function. It not only boosted kids’ self-reported feelings of happiness, liking of school, and sense of belonging, but also moderated kids’ cortisol levels, suggesting it lowered stress in the classroom. So far, the program seems to have had “incredibly positive effects,” says Diamond, who helped parse the data. Kim Schonert-Riechl, an applied developmental psychologist at the University of British Columbia and her colleagues tested the effectiveness of MindUP in 75 schools in her area. Preliminary data suggest the program works. Part of the MindUP program includes meditation to promote calm and sharpen attention. The Hawn Foundation’s MindUP program, developed by a team of educators, neurologists and psychologists is a curriculum used by teachers in about 65 US schools and nearly 150 in Canada. It led, she said, to her first understanding of the brain, “what it can do, how it can change.” She was particularly interested in neuroscience and spirituality, fancying questions such as “What is that God part of the brain?” Such an adventure might make lesser folks crazy or depressed in itself, but Hawn became surprisingly analytical about it. She saw psychologists and began meditating, embarking on a nine-year psychological journey. “I thought, `All I want to do is hold onto this joy, this tickle I had when I was little.’” Having lost that tickle Hawn went spelunking, in her own psyche. “When I was 11 years old, I decided that what I wanted to be in life was happy,” she said. The change was foreign to Hawn-and not welcome. Reporting by Scientific American:ĭecades ago (in 1972 she said), when she became famous, she felt newly anxious and something hard to imagine happened: she lost her signature smile. So, how did Goldie Hawn get interested in meditation to begin with? Here’s what she said before an audience of neuroscientists at the Aspen Brain Forum. ![]() Goldie Hawn’s gentle, heartfelt approach to mothering and her mission to help children develop happier, healthier lives will be both useful and inspiring for parents. In “Reflections” throughout the text, Hawn looks back on her own childhood and shares her personal experiences as a mother and grandmother. Hawn explains how to help children use mindful breathing and focused attention to become more reflective and self aware to gain greater emotional control. Hawn explains that mindfulness helps children develop social and emotional intelligence, resulting in greater self-awareness, less stress, and higher levels of happiness and empathy. In her newbook, Goldie Hawn presents elements of the MindUP program that parents can use in daily life with kids. She launched her Hawn Foundation in 2005 “to promote children’s academic success in school and in life through social and emotional learning”, and is promoting her meditation manual, 10 Mindful Minutes, which reached the New York Times bestseller list. ![]() In recent years, since she semi-retired, Hollywood superstar Goldie Hawn has reinvented herself as a philanthropist and “mindfulness campaigner“. ![]()
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