Week 1-The Importance of Healthy Active Living
Week 2-Personal Goal Setting
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1) Complete Journal Entry
2) Complete Goal Setting Worksheet
3) Create a vision board for you goal
2) Complete Goal Setting Worksheet
3) Create a vision board for you goal
Week 3-Body Image
AHIMSA-Non Violence
-relationships
-environment
-yourself
What do you love about your body? (Drawing Exercise and class discussion)
-relationships
-environment
-yourself
What do you love about your body? (Drawing Exercise and class discussion)
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Week 4-Food Matters
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Week 5-Gratitude
1. Show Gratitude to People Who Love You
2. Show Gratitude to People Who Challenge You
3. Show Gratitude to People Who Serve You
4. Show Gratitude to People Who Work with You
5. Show Gratitude for Yourself
In your journal this week write about who you will do this for and what you will do.
2. Show Gratitude to People Who Challenge You
3. Show Gratitude to People Who Serve You
4. Show Gratitude to People Who Work with You
5. Show Gratitude for Yourself
In your journal this week write about who you will do this for and what you will do.
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Week 6-Emotional Intelligence
Week 7-Mindfulness
Click on this link to access a very useful resource: youth.anxietybc.com/
The following excerpt was taken from http://youth.anxietybc.com/mindfulness-exercises on October 10, 2013
Answer the following questions in your journal:
1. What is mindfulness?
2. What are the benefits of practicing mindfulness for teens?
3. What does Shelly Hermer say about feelings? Do you agree or disagree?
4. How has yoga helped the teenager in the article?
5. What experience(s) have you had with Mindfulness activities?
6. In your own words explain what the cartoon is about.
7. Try the 3 senses activity on your own and reflect on your experience in your journal.
1. What is mindfulness?
2. What are the benefits of practicing mindfulness for teens?
3. What does Shelly Hermer say about feelings? Do you agree or disagree?
4. How has yoga helped the teenager in the article?
5. What experience(s) have you had with Mindfulness activities?
6. In your own words explain what the cartoon is about.
7. Try the 3 senses activity on your own and reflect on your experience in your journal.
Week 8-Communication
Week 9-Mental Health and Wellness
Click on the pink tab above to go to "Mind Your Mind" and complete the following questions in your journal:
1) Click on "Make a Wish" under Interactives. Make a wish and send it out. What quote came back to you? Copy it in your journal
and explain what you think it means in your own words.
2) Click on "Mind Pack-English" under Interactives. Click on the front of the back pack and complete the assessment. Copy the
results in your journal.
3) Watch the Ted Talk video "Living Through Mental Illness..". In your journal retell Brent's story in your own words. What is his
message.
4) Take a few minutes to look at the website. Choose something else that you find useful or interesting. Discuss in your journal.
1) Click on "Make a Wish" under Interactives. Make a wish and send it out. What quote came back to you? Copy it in your journal
and explain what you think it means in your own words.
2) Click on "Mind Pack-English" under Interactives. Click on the front of the back pack and complete the assessment. Copy the
results in your journal.
3) Watch the Ted Talk video "Living Through Mental Illness..". In your journal retell Brent's story in your own words. What is his
message.
4) Take a few minutes to look at the website. Choose something else that you find useful or interesting. Discuss in your journal.
Week 10-Right Brain vs. Left Brain
Week 11-The Power of One
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." ~Leo Buscaglia
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Week 12-Wants vs. Needs
Week 15 and 16-Minimalism
Weight Loss or Not, Exercise Yields Benefits
http://www.wsj.com/articles/weight-loss-or-not-exercise-yields-benefits-1423505611
Canada's Food Guide
My Food Guide is an interactive tool that customizes Canada's Food Guide just for you.
1. In your journal make a table recording how many servings of each food group you need each day
2. Click on the link (pink) below and create your own personal Food Guide. Save a copy of what you created in your folder and print off a copy to submit with your journal this week.
3. Using the website to help you and the table you made in your journal, evaluate your food choices for the 24 hour period you logged what you ate.
1. In your journal make a table recording how many servings of each food group you need each day
2. Click on the link (pink) below and create your own personal Food Guide. Save a copy of what you created in your folder and print off a copy to submit with your journal this week.
3. Using the website to help you and the table you made in your journal, evaluate your food choices for the 24 hour period you logged what you ate.
Body Image
This journal exercise is to help you better understand your attitudes, thoughts and feelings about your body. Be honest, think hard, and write as creatively as you wish.
My parents think my appearance/body is...
My friends think my appearance/body is...
I think my appearance/body is...
If I could change one thing about my appearance/body it would be:
One thing I like about my appearance/body is:
If I had to sum up how I feel about my body in one word, it would be:
Additional comments/thoughts:
My parents think my appearance/body is...
My friends think my appearance/body is...
I think my appearance/body is...
If I could change one thing about my appearance/body it would be:
One thing I like about my appearance/body is:
If I had to sum up how I feel about my body in one word, it would be:
Additional comments/thoughts:
http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/joy-thanks
Gratitude
Laughter is the Best Medicine
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stress-relief/SR00034
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Mindfulness Reflection (Sun Salutation & Body Scan)
Mindfulness Reflection (Lake Meditation)
Watch the video and answer the following questions about relationships:
1) Do you believe in love at first sight?
2) Do you believe that opposites attract or that birds of a feather flock together?
3) Do you think that some people are just made for one another?
4) Do you know any couples who are a match made in heaven?
5) Do you know any couples who have a stormy relationship?
6) If a couple are on the rocks, what are the best ways to patch up their relationship?
8) In your own words write a paragraph describing what the video means.
1) Do you believe in love at first sight?
2) Do you believe that opposites attract or that birds of a feather flock together?
3) Do you think that some people are just made for one another?
4) Do you know any couples who are a match made in heaven?
5) Do you know any couples who have a stormy relationship?
6) If a couple are on the rocks, what are the best ways to patch up their relationship?
8) In your own words write a paragraph describing what the video means.
Week 11-Healthy Relationships continued
Answer the following questions in your journal.
- Why is Lucy with Nathan?
- Does Nathan do or say anything to control, frighten, hurt or manipulate Lucy early in the film?
- What is the difference between controlling and manipulation and having a healthy argument?
- What warning signs were there to indicate Lucy was being abused?
- What stops people from asking for help? Why might someone who is being abused find it difficult to leave an abusive partner or take action to protect themselves? Think about practical and emotional consequences of leaving or taking action.
- What can someone do (family members or friends) to help someone who is being abused?
- Where can someone who is being abused turn for help?
- Were you surprised by any of the statistics at the end of the film?
Week 12-Don't Stress-Just Chill :)
Don't Fall for the Media Circus
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."-Willie Nelson
Goal Setting
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1. What is the meaning of the poem his father taped to the fridge?
2. According to Sharma, what is one of the best things you can do each day? 3. What does he say about adversity? 4. Describe the meaning of the quote below in your own words. “Ideation without execution is nothing more than delusion” 5. What do you think his overall message is? 6. Pick a health related goal you are going accomplish before the end of the semester. Write about this goal in your journal this week. |
Go to the website:
http://www.about-face.org/
Choose one media item from "The Gallery of Offenders" and one media item from "The Gallery of Winners". Answer the corresponding questions in your journal.
http://www.about-face.org/
Choose one media item from "The Gallery of Offenders" and one media item from "The Gallery of Winners". Answer the corresponding questions in your journal.
Week 13-Just Breath
Alternate nostril breathing provides many known health benefits including:
- reducing anxiety
- improving digestion
- calming the nervous system
- improving brain functioning (connects left "thinking" and right "feeling" brain
- improving sleep
- cleansing the lungs
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