FAQs
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is a brain exercise where the person focuses on a single object—your breath, sounds around you, folding laundry, whatever is going on in the present moment. This act of “being present” and focus can recalibrate an anxious, depressed, unfocused or any mind in need of a Reboot.
Reboot's mindfulness products use scientifically-backed, secularized techniques learned from social emotional learning and mindfulness that are tested using biofeedback and qualitative data. Our tools are built specifically for mainstream administration of mindfulness training.
Research shows a changing mind…
Research continues to uncover the benefits of mindfulness training and continually shows physical changes to the brain for those that regularly practice mindfulness.
Research using FMRI scans show that the amygdala, the “flight or flight” command center of the brain in charge of our bodies response to stress, shrinks when practicing mindfulness. At the same time, the prefrontal cortex which is in charge of awareness, concentration and decision-making, becomes thicker. Bottom line, we know from research that consistency in mindfulness practice creates brain change.
…And increases the ability to manage stress.
Mindfulness improves overall health by lowering blood pressure, improving attention and focus, increasing immunity, and decreasing stress and anxiety.
Mindfulness also benefits cognition by helping to improve information processing, decision making, problem solving, focus, emotional intelligence and other executive function skills like memory retention.
“Overall, 37% of students at public and private high schools reported that their mental health was not good most or all of the time during the pandemic, according to the CDC’s Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, which was fielded from January to June 2021. In the survey, “poor mental health” includes stress, anxiety and depression. About three-in-ten high school students (31%) said they experienced poor mental health most or all of the time in the 30 days before the survey. In addition, 44% said that, in the previous 12 months, they felt sad or hopeless almost every day for at least two weeks in a row such that they stopped doing some usual activities” (CDC 2022).
How it’s used.
Mindfulness is being used by by schools, businesses, professional sports teams, hospitals and the military to deal with stress and increase performance.
“In 2018, the “Employer-Sponsored Health and Well-Being Survey” of 163 companies by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) and Fidelity Investments found that 52% of companies offered mindfulness training that year.”
We expect that number has greatly increased since the pandemic with companies recognize the need and the impact mindfulness on productivity and overall happiness in the workplace. As expected, in schools, mindfulness helps with teacher retention and teacher burnout which have increased dramatically since the pandemic. “Nearly four in 10 reported that working during the pandemic has made them consider changing jobs, mirroring recent surveys from the National Education Association and the RAND Corporation that found high percentages of teachers thinking about exiting the profession” (nea.org).
Creating Community
Mindfulness creates a strong sense of community. When schools integrate Reboot into their curriculum school wide, they experience results.
One elementary school that plays Reboot right after morning announcements experienced a 50% decrease in reported behavioral incidents when the program launched school-wide.
A teen correctional facility is using Reboot as a way to start the day on the right foot, facility-wide.
Reboot is having an impact on schools experiencing tragedies across the country by giving schools a way to collectively grieve and heal.
What is the Library?
The Library is now available! Teachers and Administrators are able to access Reboot’s guides for particular situations. We put together our favorites from some of the circumstances students and staff have told us they face every day in and out of classrooms. Test anxiety, sadness, grief or needing to relax and focus are just some of the topics covered in our library of guides.
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