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Mind-Body Skills Week 4

By Andrea Tanner, PhD, RN, NCSN posted 06-28-2022 11:07

  

Dear School Nurses, 

This is our fourth and final week to connect and discuss Mind-Body Medicine. If you have enjoyed these practices, I encourage you to keep practicing them, share them with co-workers and students, and learn more about them and others here. I have no affiliation with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine other than having benefited from participating in a free skills group. In this group, we learned more about how stress affects the mind AND body. I also began pondering how these skills might fit into the daily school nurse interventions we provide for students struggling with stress and coping.  

This week, I share the power of Drawings as a meditative or mindfulness practice. This practice is described as a way to “bypass the fears that arise from our amygdala and the hope-limiting doubts of our ‘rational’ left hemisphere. Watch this introduction video to learn more about this insightful practice. 

Connect with the Healthy School Nurse Discussion to experience Drawing through a guided video and chat about what you learn or experience. Treat this activity as an experiment to discover what you may learn about yourself when you enter a relaxed state. 

It has been an honor to connect with you this month. I hope you have experienced peace, relaxation, joy, and an increased awareness of your mind-body connection. More than anything, I hope you have given yourself the gift of self-care and appreciation for the life-saving and life-giving work you do as a school nurse. 

Be well! 

Andrea 
Andrea Tanner, PhD, RN, NCSN
NASN Consulting Research Strategy

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