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Train Your Mind Like a Ninja

30 Secret Skills for Fun, Focus, and Resilience
By Christopher Willard and Mitch Abblett
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Train Your Mind Like a Ninja by Christopher Willard and Mitch Abblett offers young readers playful and accessible mindfulness techniques to enhance focus, calm, and self-awareness. Through ninja-themed lessons and exercises, children learn the skills to manage emotions and stress, cultivating a powerful and peaceful state of mind. This engaging guide encourages kids to become mindful ninjas in their daily lives.
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You might enjoy this book if you are looking for a fun and engaging way to introduce mindfulness and emotional resilience to children. It uses playful imagery and relatable exercises to teach young readers how to focus and manage their feelings like little ninjas, making it an excellent choice for helping kids build essential life skills in a creative manner.

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2021 Mom's Choice Awards Gold Recipient 2022 NAPPA Award Winner Become a ninja with 30 mindfulness practices to help kids ages 5-9 increase their focus, compassion, emotional balance, and body awareness--from experts in Japanese martial arts and mindfulness. 2021 Mom's Choice Awards Gold Recipient 2022 National Parenting Product Award Winner Become a ninja with 30 mindfulness practices to help kids ages 5-9 increase their focus, compassion, emotional balance, and body awareness--from experts in Japanese martial arts and mindfulness. Are you ready to unlock the ninja within? Train Your Mind Like a Ninja draws from martial arts concepts to explore how you can train the mind and body to act from a place of awareness and deliberate action to reach your full potential. While ninjas of the past may have been warriors, modern ninjas train their minds and bodies for peaceful purposes only, uncovering ways to become happier, healthier, and more confident in everything they do. Each of the 30 cards is categorized to reflect the ninja values of Community/Connection, Body Awareness and Agility, Mental Awareness and Focus, Calm and Balance, Perspective and Perseverance, and Mental Flexibility and Agility. The deck is arranged in order of overall difficulty, from introductory mental focus and physical training at the start to more challenging emotional training to defeat your inner enemies. Master each of the cards to unlock your inner ninja and become a better student, athlete, family member, and friend.

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Train Your Mind Like a Ninja is praised for its beautifully illustrated card deck that effectively adapts the wisdom of mindful awareness for children. It's described as a fun and practical tool with easy-to-follow directions and engaging Ninja imagery, making it appealing for young users. The deck is noted for its usefulness in teaching evidence-based emotional regulation strategies that children are likely to use.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781611809039

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc

Format: Cards

Date Published: 26 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 38

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Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Christopher Willard Mitch Abblett Penguin Books

About the Author

T. KOEI KUWAHARA, SENSEI, has been a teacher of aikido and iaido for 40 years. He is an acupuncturist focusing on Traditional Japanese Acupuncture (Hari style of meridian therapy), and Japanese medical ki gung for over 35 years. MITCH ABBLETT, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and consultant with a private practice. The author of The Five Hurdles to Happiness and From Anger to Action, he has been the executive director of the Institution for Meditation and Psychotherapy and was for eleven years clinical director of Manville School at Judge Baker's Children's Center at Harvard University. DR. CHRISTOPHER WILLARD, PsyD, is an author and educator who teaches at Harvard Medical School and serves on the board of the Mindfulness in Education Network and the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. An established speaker in both meditation and psychotherapy communities, he regularly leads workshops and presents at conferences around the world. He is the author of numerous books, including Alphabreaths and Raising Resilience, and he is the coauthor of Breathing Makes It Better.

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