Mindfulness Activities for 2023 - Ring in the New Year with 30 Days of Resources - Growth Mindset Journal

Kick off the 2023 New Year with Daily Mindfulness Warm-Ups / Journal: Daily Practices, Writing Prompts, and Reflections for Living in the Present Moment. This is an ideal way to move into 2023!

January 2023 Daily Mindfulness Warm-Ups / Journal


Help students reduce stress, navigate bullying, REDUCE stress and ANXIETY AND LIVE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. It's easy to feel worried when surrounded by negativity and headlines full of bad news. With The Mindfulness Journal, students build stress-reducing habits that help them appreciate every single day.

UNIQUE, ACTIONABLE PROMPTS: The Mindfulness Journal gives students the opportunity to immerse in each topic. Prompts are engaging and will help students gain an appreciation of the world around them.

41 mindfulness activities for grades 5 through 12 can be guided or students may use them on their own.

Recharge your students for 2023! Life can be overwhelming, and many students today are on stress overload. So much to do, so much information hitting from all sides. With so much
January 2023 Daily Mindfulness Warm-Ups / Journal

stimulation, it’s difficult to shut our brains off. It’s like that Apple computer circle of death – the colorful rainbow that spins and spins when your computer becomes too stimulated and can’t process as fast as you want. Sometimes the connections is made, the circle goes away and work resumes. Other times the system crashes and it is necessary to reboot. It’s the same with people. Dozens of times during the day that little circle pops up into our brains, and our system crashes. When this happens to students we get behavior problems, poor performance, discontented students and a less than ideal classroom environment.

When the brain is overstimulated, our nervous systems shut down, just like that computer. This leads to anxiety, depression and panic. Students can act up or shut down. The brain and body can’t maintain anymore. That’s why it is important to give our minds time to rest and process throughout the day.

Mindfulness practices help our minds feel less overwhelmed, more focused and more compassionate - to ourselves and others. Adding self-conversance – moves us beyond mindfulness and enables us to overcome stress, anxiety and live healthier, kinder, more self-compassionate lives.

Use this resource to work with students towards mindfulness. Discuss the topics, model the prompts and activities and and then journal away.

The tools in this resource will help your students off to a mindful New Year.

Journaling for a mindful new year!

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