Wednesday 21 October 2020

Can you lighten tense moments and puts self and others at ease with laughter?

You're clearing out the clutter in your mind. No two people are alike in their needs, mental abilities, and capacity. Each person will have her own level when it comes to mastering meditation. It would be illusory to claim that one of the aims of the school is to develop critical thinking (as defined above at least) and it is for this reason that the school environment emphasizes the development of judgment. Critical, a manifestation of an early development of such thought. Studies must sharpen critical thinking. Cross-curricular competencies, at least in Quebec, are the PSEQ's dislikes. However, at the time of the alternative facts and fake news, exercising critical judgment emerges as a key competence to ensure the durability of democracy: The true critical spirit, the one that helps us to thwart the alienation sometimes represented by the suggestions of our intuition, can only be acquired through persevering exercises. This work, so necessary for the advent of a democracy of knowledge, can only be done by insisting on it throughout the educational period and in all subjects as soon as possible. BRONNER, 2013, P. The role of teachers Developing critical thinking in young adolescents, the same ones who learn to challenge the established order, is a dangerous adventure! And that's fine by me. After all, there is no supreme court out there to declare that some rules are `right' and others are `wrong'. So test them out for yourself, and see what happens; TEN RULES FOR WINNING THE GAME OF CONFIDENCE The actions of confidence come first; Genuine confidence is not the absence of fear; Don't fight them;

Self-acceptance trumps self-esteem. True success is living by your values. Hold your values lightly, but pursue them vigorously. However, all meditation techniques will have the same effects on the body and mind. It's up to you to discover what works for you. And you only need fifteen minutes every day. Set a time. Maybe first thing in the morning or before you go to bed. Create a space for yourself that's relaxing and peaceful. An open air venue is ideal; You can't be in a noisy room and meditate. You need to turn off all power and battery-operated devices--phones, iPods, the television. And turn on the one true gift you can give yourself. It is difficult to teach young people to develop this spirit when, in many cases, school strategy is based on coercion and dogma. We expect our young people to be docile and to respect the rules of life without complaining. It is also expected that they will assimilate all the content transmitted to them without questioning them. In short, we teach those dogmas, recipes, procedures without their having the right to question them. Unfortunately, at present, and for ages, education serves primarily a goal of social conformity so that everyone remains in his place. At the opposite of the spectrum, some, like Albert Jacquard, say bluntly: the goal of teachers should be to make trouble. We must cultivate the doubt and teach why and how to properly question things to tend towards mental autonomy: the doubt has heuristic virtues, it is true, but it can also lead, rather than autonomy cognitive nihilism.

Essentially, what is desired is that young people understand three things that are the foundations of critical thinking and epistemological reasoning: How do we know what we know? How is this knowledge validated? Don't obsess about the outcome; Don't fight your fear: allow it, befriend it, and channel it. Failure hurts - but if we're willing to learn, it's a wonderful teacher. The key to peak performance is total engagement in the task. So please: hold these rules lightly, revisit them regularly, and use them flexibly. And let's end the article with a look at . WHAT LIES AHEAD? Writing a article like this is a constant balancing act. On the one hand, I want to encourage you to live the best life you possibly can; If you get carried away with `Yes, I can do anything I want! I could be sitting in the car, in my living room or on a beach, and without even trying, my mind is suddenly clear of thoughts. If I shut my eyes, I see a light between them. However, it all boils down to practice. I've been meditating for years. It's the most calming, relaxing feeling in the world. It's like a refreshing massage for the brain. Through it, I've also developed the power to be alone.

Being on my own does not stress me out. In fact, I'm quite happy on my own, even if there's no entertainment, gadgets, or Internet around. A 10-minute meditation routine to destress What does this knowledge serve? Yes, the critical path is narrow, but it is under the benevolent guidance of the teacher that the student will be able to venture there. The narrowness of the path is not necessarily related to the critical aspect of the trip, but rather to the scope of the inherent responsibility. The aim of the school is, first of all, to promote the emancipation of a subject, a future citizen whose freedom and responsibility go together. In a society where there is much more emphasis on rights and freedom, the responsibility that flows from these same rights and responsibilities is overshadowed. Hence the importance, in my opinion, of developing not only the critical spirit, but also the ethical spirit. We all aspire, in education, for our young people to become responsible citizens, hardworking and productive workers and open and empathic parents. These aims are noble: The formation of the person as an independent subject who has developed the basic skills to be autonomous in today's world and whose critical spirit has been trained by aiming at the acquisition of the basic knowledge to be able to learn all the life and participate in debates on the scientific and socially vibrant issues that cross it. It has two important environments where this critical spirit can be developed: at home and at school. So it's good to go in with your eyes open. Expect your journey to involve ups and downs, highs and lows, pleasure and pain. Expect successes and failures, triumphs and disasters, giant leaps forward and major falls backward. And bear in mind the words of Sir Winston Churchill: `Success is not final; Personally, I love the word `courage'. It comes from the Latin word `cor', which means `heart'. Thus courage means we do what's in our hearts;

And when people act courageously, what's the most common emotion that they feel? So courage is not the absence of fear; And that neatly brings us full circle back to Helen Keller. If this is the first time that you are meditating, make it an occasion worth remembering. Wear cool, comfortable clothing. Set up the ambience: close the drapes and the door; If you're a first timer, start slowly. I suggest you do it in the morning around sunrise for best results. However, if you are not a morning person, you can also do it in the evenings after work, but before dinner. Maybe you'd like to sit in a chair, or cross legged in the lotus pose on the ground. And take a deep breath (deep breathing is a very important part of the whole experience). This is a lot harder than it looks, and it takes a lot of practice. But it WILL happen. In my humble opinion, the school is the middle par excellence to achieve it since it is a social microcosm and an experimental social environment. The pupil has all the necessary supervision to learn and develop all these deeply human skills that are referred to when one approaches the question of soft-skills, or savoir-etre. How to develop critical thinking in class? Critical thinking is a valued skill that does not develop on its own, of course. The teacher is thus invested with an important mission: to evolve the child's natural intellectual puerility: But they [the students] will only learn to exercise critical judgment to the extent that the teachers themselves will be role models and given multiple opportunities to express their opinions, to discuss them with others, to confront them with different points of view and analyze their merits. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, 2006

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