Brain Facts
This part of the brain acts as a biological alarm system, scanning the environment for threats and triggering the immediate fight, flight, or freeze stress response.
It is also known as the "watchdog" of the brain.
What is the amygdala?
What is mindfulness?
This type of breathing happens when your belly rises as you inhale, and your belly sinks in as you exhale.
What is belly breathing?
We all signed this saying we would work as a team to be kind, safe, and focused.
What is a falcon community learning agreement?
Focusing more on these types of thoughts can reshape your brain, lowering stress hormones and boosting feel good hormones like serotonin.
You can focus on these types of thoughts through being grateful and practicing mindfulness.
What are positive thoughts?
This part of the brain is responsible for memory and learning. Stress can put a strain on this part of the brain, causing it not to work as well.
This part of the brain is also known as the "filing cabinent".
What is the hippocampus?
When you open your ears to all the sounds around you and calmly observe those sounds, you are practicing...
What is mindful listening?
This mindful breathing technique traces the fingers on one's hands while slowly inhaling when tracing up a finger and slowly exhaling while tracing down a finger.
What is five finger breathing?
During our mindful eating lesson, many class members stated this food item tasted like Christmas.
What is gum drops?
The average weight of the human brain.
What is 3 pounds?
This part of the brain is known for logical thinking, emotional regulation, and decision making. It is also known as the brain's "wise owl".
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is mindful eating?
This is a type of mindful breathing where you trace your finger along a square or rectangle.
The steps are to breathe in through your nose on the first line, hold your breathe along the second line, breathe out through your mouth on the third line, and hold on the fourth line.
What is box breathing?
Ms. Papay showed an example of box breathing with this everyday item students can use to calm themselves during school.
What is a folder?
*Bonus 100 for teams that can name another item you can use to practice box breathing.
Seeing the glass as half full, rather than half empty.
Looking at the bright side of things.
What is optimism?
What is being optimistic?
You can play a role in how your brain develops. Your brain can changed based on your experiences and develop by what you choose to do to help it grow.
This is the brain's lifelong ability to adapt, grow, and reorganize neural pathways.
What is neuroplasticity?
When we are not paying attention, are not aware of what we are doing or are not aware of what is going on around us, we are being..
This is also, known as the opposite of being mindful.
What is Unmindful?
The proper amount of times to complete a mindful breathing technique in one sitting for it to be effective.
What is three to four?
Note: Some people like to do more that this, be mindful of how your body responds (when you feel calmer, clearer, relaxed) to see what a good amount is for you!
The number of known human emotions.
What is 34,000?
Hydration is critical for brain function!
It is extremely important to stay hydrated, because the brain is made up of this percentage of water.
What is 75%?
1. When the brain experiences unhealthy stress, the prefrontal cortex will shut down. When that happens decisions are made by THIS PART of the brain based on a response to danger/threats.
2. This is a quick way to help get your prefrontal cortex running and working with the rest of your brain again.
1. What is the amygdala?
2. What is Deep breathing?
To practice mindfulness in our daily lives, we need to use our five senses to observe the world around us.
These are the five senses we use to be mindful.
What is smell, taste, feel, hear, see?
1.When practicing mindful breathing, you inhale through this part of your body.
2.When practicing mindful breathing, you exhale through this part of your body.
1. What is your nose?
2. What is your mouth?
When you stand/lay while deep breathing and slowly observe feelings in differing parts of the body, you are practicing...
During this practice you would observe how your head feels, then neck, shoulders, chest, arms, hands, legs, ankles, and lastly feet. You might contract or loosen muscles in these areas as you go along.
What is a mindful body scan?
Being outside, even just 15 minutes a day, significantly reduces this.
What is the stress hormone cortisol?