{"id":1524,"date":"2018-03-11T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T01:56:29","slug":"stress-busters-and-brain-breaks-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/03\/11\/stress-busters-and-brain-breaks-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress Busters and Brain Breaks Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1568\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/teenstressed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anxiety and stress can shut down thinking for young kids, teens and adults. Positive thinking and a few simple tricks help restore emotional, physiological and metacognition (brain) balance. Here are a few ideas to try.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Step away from engaging in activities that build up your stress levels.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to music that relaxes your brain.It fills your body with sound and usually shoves stress aside.<\/li>\n<li>Set a timer for one minute. Focus on images\/life experiences\/sensory remembrances that bring you joy.<\/li>\n<li>Quick journal <strong>Lists of 5<\/strong>. Start a journal with suggested lists of 5 positives to write about 5 favorite colors, 5 best friends, 5 cookies you like best, 5 songs that give you feeling of joy, etc. Add a new topic every time you stop to write so you\u2019ll never face a blank page on a future day.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1566\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/teenrelaxed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/teenrelaxed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/03\/teenrelaxed-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety and stress can shut down thinking for young kids, teens and adults. Positive thinking and a few simple tricks help restore emotional, physiological and metacognition (brain) balance. Here are a few ideas to try. Step away from engaging in activities that build up your stress levels. Listen to music that relaxes your brain.It fills\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/03\/11\/stress-busters-and-brain-breaks-part-1\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,24,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engaging-students","category-family","category-ideas-websites","category-stress-busters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}