Smiling Mind Video Video Lecture | Mindfulness: Find Peace and keep Healthy - Health & Fitness

one in two of us will experience a
mental illness in our lifetime 75% of us
before we even turn 24 anyone can be
affected these experiences are real and
they don't discriminate
this means you or someone you know will
encounter a mental illness many of us
not seeking the help we may desperately
need there's only one way to change
these statistics and start building
healthier minds and communities we need
to focus on prevention rather than cure
mindfulness meditation is a proven tool
to prevent mental illness and reduce the
incidence of anxiety and depression in
today's busy world smiling mind is
modern meditation a tool for people of
all ages to use free of charge to start
building a healthier mind our vision is
to see mindfulness meditation on the
school curriculum by 2020 we know that
to truly make an impact on the state of
mental health we need to provide our
children with skills that can be used
throughout their whole life much like we
eat well and exercise to keep our body
healthy meditation is exercise for the
mind we'd like you to meet some of the
children and teachers from our smiling
mind community sharing how smiling mind
and mindfulness meditation has helped
them it is absolutely amazing we have
students who have quite challenging
behaviors and they're able to stop and
think and relax when they hear smiling
mind you just have to say smiling mind
and they'll say yes let's do it
before I started using smiley mine I
used to get a bit worked up and a bit
stressed and worried about my whatever
I'm doing like I had cross country the
night before I couldn't sleep and I just
turned on smiley minds and it made it
all better I've been using smiling mind
I like when I get anxious or worried
about things I can just use it to
meditate and calm down and just focus on
my breath the smiling mind app and
education programs are freely accessible
to all smiling Minds workplace program
helps fund the important work we do in
schools around the country where our
program has proven to improve students
sleep well-being ability to manage
emotions concentration and behavior at
school meet Rohini from IBM Rohini was
instrumental in rolling out the smiling
mind workplace program and app in IBM
Australia and is now leading the global
rollout employer well-being is really
important to us which is why we rolled
out the smiling my IBM authority which
resulted in a reduction of perceived
stress we're thrilled now that that app
has been rolled out globally
smiling mind is making a difference not
only other programs undertaken proven to
be effective in positively impacting
mental health outcomes
the organisation is also educated more
than 1 million people and provided them
with a free pre-emptive mental health
tool many lives have been transformed
through regular use of the program and
will continue to be with your support