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MG225 Career Succes and Self Reflection

KORU ASSIGNMENT Week #1:


A big part of success with starting a new habit is to know why you want this new habit in your
life. The Koru assignments aim to provide additional motivation for your efforts in establishing a
mindfulness practice as well as to prepare you for our class sessions.
During the first week of mindfulness practice, you should do the following:
1. Meditate for a minimum of 10 minutes a day and log your practice in the Koru app
daily. Make sure you include one thing you are grateful for in your log as well as your
daily mindfulness activity. It’s Ok to start meditating for just a few minutes and build
from there.
2. Read the TXBK pages 1-27 before the first class and bring your favorite quotes from
these pages to share at the start of class.
3. Submit the following assignment at the end of Koru week 1.
Time required: 30 – 40 min.

What to submit (4 parts—see next page as well)


Instructions: Please delete all instructions before submitting your reflection, in text only, in
Brightspace. Make sure you number your answers based on the numbered parts below.
[~ 200 words per part]:

1. What was your favorite quote from the assigned textbook pages?
2. Do first: Watch this 2-min Dynamic Breathing demonstration video and practice it a
couple of times this week, especially when you feel low energy/tired. Here is an
alternative video demonstration. Try to follow each one of them once.

Then Reflect and Write: How was this experience for you? How was the 1st week of your
Mindfulness practice overall?

3. Do first: Watch this 18 min video by Dr. Amishi Jha- who explains the benefits of
mindfulness training in her talk “Taming Your Wandering Mind.”
 Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director
of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she
co-founded in 2010. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis and
postdoctoral training at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University. Dr. Jha’s work
has been featured at NATO, the World Economic Forum, and The Pentagon. She has received
coverage in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Forbes and more.

Then Reflect and Write: Provide a brief summary of this video? How does the video
relate to you and your practice this week?
MG225 Career Succes and Self Reflection

4. Do first: Watch the last 5 min of this video, which describes the impact and importance
of breathing exercises. Start at about 15 min.
 Dr. Andrew Huberman is an American neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department
of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous
important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural
regeneration.

Then Reflect and Write: Provide a brief summary of this video? How does the video
relate to you and your practice this week?

Optional: A recent study found that breathing exercises reduce blood pressure as much as
blood pressure medicine. Read article here, and here is a video about how to practice
diaphragmatic breathing outside of meditation practice.

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