2022 - Robinson Library's Summer Challenge: Mindfulness Options

The Science Behind mindfulness

Learn about the benefits!

Three exercises you can try right now (UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center)

The Mindful Summer Bucket List

• Eat an entire meal in silence — pay attention to the act of eating and to the taste of the food

• Watch the Disney Pixar movie Inside Out

• Start a gratitude journal — and write in it once a week

• Forgive someone for something (maybe yourself?)

• Practice mindful walking

• Try these breathing exercises 

• Change up a daily activity — brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand, drive a different route to work, sit in a different spot in your morning meeting…. Go wild!

• Put on some music and dance — just move however your body wants to move

• Practice lovingkindness

• Make a list of the things you love about yourself

• Declutter an area in your house that’s driving you crazy

• Make a mind jar

• Watch a sunrise

• Make a list of the top 10 things that help YOU reduce stress — and post it somewhere you will see it every day

Adapted from The Mindful Summer Bucket List