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This 2-minute video for students and parents features Mental Health Therapist Stephanie Dann talking about letting go of thoughts. - Thoughts are what our mind says to us, they affect how we feel and act. - Sometimes we can challenge or reframe thoughts, other times we get stuck in our negative thought patterns. - We can’t prevent negative thoughts from popping up but we can change our relationship to our thoughts by how much we pay attention to them. - We can learn to observe our thoughts and decrease their emotional impact by diverting our focus. Challenge: Try googling “Leaves on a Stream meditation” to be guided through a short visualization on letting go of your thoughts, there are many great videos out there for this with young children and also adults!

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Hi. My name is Stephanie Dann. I'm a mental health therapist that works with White River School District. And today I wanted to talk to you about letting go of thoughts. To define thoughts, thoughts are just what are mind says to us. Our opinions and our beliefs we form about ourselves, and the people around us in the world. We create our thoughts based on our past experiences. And what we think affects how we feel and how we act. When people come to see me for therapy they often have a goal of, "I don't want to think this way anymore. I don't want these kinds of thoughts'. I can definitely relate to that. But we do not have control over the thoughts that pop into our head. Our thoughts just happen. In past videos I've talked about some strategies about challenging your thoughts when they come up, or trying to change them or reframe them when you're working with kids. But sometimes that's not possible. Sometimes we have thoughts that, maybe they're true! Or maybe they're just really resistant to change. We can however, change our relationship to our thoughts. And how much we pay attention to them. Sometimes when we're having thoughts, we think, "This must be true because I'm thinking it." Or, "It must be important otherwise why would I be thinking it?" We have all kinds of thoughts though, and we don't need to pay attention to them all the time. Often times when we get entangled into negative thought patterns, it takes us away from meeting our goals in our life. So one strategy that I would recommend to people is trying some visualization, where you let go of your thoughts. The best way to do this is to go through a meditation. One that I really like online is called 'leaves on a stream'. If you Google online 'leaves on a stream meditation' there's many videos that come up that you can use with yourself and with your students at home. Try doing that this week when you're noticing some negative thoughts that's hard to let go of.

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