{"id":1527,"date":"2018-03-18T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T01:59:57","slug":"stress-busters-and-brain-breaks-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/03\/18\/stress-busters-and-brain-breaks-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress Busters and Brain Breaks Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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

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  1. Build-up positives. ONE EXAMPLE: Observe the weather. Think of a time when something fun, funny or positive happened during similar weather. Maybe a rainy day when you saw a rainbow. A steamy summer day when you enjoyed a perfect glass of lemonade, a long day at work when you observed co-worker doing a random act of kindness, or maybe an evening when you felt exhausted, but a child\u2019s comment brought a smile to your face.<\/li>\n
  2. Take a 5-minute break. Relieve stress by deep breathing, simple stretching exercises or yoga moves.<\/li>\n
  3. Read a funny, inspirational or uplifting short story, quote, or cartoon.<\/li>\n
  4. Call a friend just to say hello and check on how their day is going.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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. Build-up positives. ONE EXAMPLE: Observe the weather. Think of a time when something fun, funny or positive happened during similar\u2026 Read More »<\/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":[24,315,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-websites","category-stress-busters","category-teacher-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","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=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}