Mindfulness is a fantastic technique for helping to manage anxiety, improve focus, and reduce stress. For children and teens who might struggle to focus and concentrate, mindfulness can provide them with methods to boost their concentration and lessen their stress.

Mindfulness is a therapeutic technique that emphasizes focusing on the present moment. It involves living in the moment and experiencing things, including our own thoughts and feelings, without judging them. Many adults may learn mindfulness for a variety of reasons, but children and teens can benefit from mindfulness too. When children are struggling to focus and feel stressed out, mindfulness can help them to concentrate on the current task at hand, instead of getting distracted by other things or getting stuck.

Improved behavior, focus, and effectively managing stress are just some of the benefits that mindfulness can offer for children and teens. In addition to helping to improve focus, mindfulness can help them to deal with negative thoughts. Thinking negatively about themselves or what they’re doing is common for children who might have had difficulty at school or at home with concentration. Mindfulness helps them to address those negative thoughts and focus on more positive and adaptive ones instead.

Learning mindfulness might involve breathing exercises, taking notice of how the body feels, focusing on different sounds and sensations, observing thoughts and feelings, and more. Children and teens can learn to use mindfulness to improve both their focus and their overall well-being.

Bridge to Balance offers mindfulness for children and teens to help them learn how to use the techniques in their everyday lives to improve it. Contact us to learn more about our mindfulness groups and individual therapy.