Mental Health

Stress Less

In the Bible, one of Jesus’ friends, Peter, writes: ‘Cast all your worries onto God because he cares for you.’ (1 Peter 5:7)

  • What are you worried about right now? Is there something that’s been making you feel stressed?
  • Put your hands in the bowl of aqua beads and gently take two handfuls of them. As the aqua beads run through your fingers, imagine the worry and stress slipping away too…

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It-Triq

Ktieb, ħabib u gwida għaż-żgħażagħ li qed ifittxu it-Triq tal-Ħajja. Ġabra ta’ stejjer, esperjenzi, ħsibijiet miġbura minn ħargiet imgħoddija ta’ fuljett għaż-żgħażagħ maħruġ mill-Ġiżwiti. Illum ukoll għandna żgħażagħ li qed ifittxu ftit sens fid-dinja tal-lum, bl-isfidi kollha tagħha. Nifs frisk ta’ ħajja li ma tinxifx u li jmiss kull qalb żagħżugħa li qed tfittex it-Triq tal-Ħajja.

Intervista ma’ Fr Paul Chetcuti sj dwar kif u għala fforma It-Triq Għaż-Żgħażagħ Rigal Sabiħ għal Żgħażagħ minn 12-il sena ‘l fuq… Read more »

Fitness Prayers

Instructions

Physical exercise keeps your body and mind healthy by burning energy, lowering stress and making you self-confident. It also helps you to pray better because it improves your breathing, concentration, self-control and determination.

  • Warm-up: Walk, jog on the spot, do shoulder rows and knee lifts slowly. Breathe deeply while you thank God for being alive and healthy.
  • Main workout: Choose your favourite sports equipment or do push-ups, lunges, squats and other exercises…

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Bag of Worries

Instructions

Sometimes we can feel weighed down by our worries. Some worries just slow us down, but others can stop us from enjoying the good things in our lives.

  • Place the heavy objects that represent your worries in the rucksack or bag.
  • Lift the bag or place the rucksack on your back.
  • As you do so, think about the problems, situations or worries which you have now…

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Bounce Back

Instructions

Difficult experiences often upset us very badly. Resilience is the strength that helps us to bounce back by thinking hopefully about life, learning from our mistakes and finding help and support.  Difficult experiences do not break us but shape us to become stronger and braver.

  • Think about an experience which has knocked you down. If you want to, you can speak to an adult who can help you with this…

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Think Good Thoughts

Instructions

The way we think affects how we feel and behave. Bad thoughts make us complain and feel helpless or sad. Positive thoughts empower us to feel in control of ourselves and our life so that we can deal with difficult situations with more hope and courage.

  • Take a blank sheet of paper and draw two columns. In the first column think of those situations which made you feel sad and hopeless…

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Love is Greater than Fear

Instructions

Fears can feel HUGE and overwhelming.

  • Take a piece of paper. Write your fears that concern you about the coronavirus disease.
  • Take a love-heart shape and stick it on these fears to cover them completely.
  • Quietly relate a prayer of hope asking God to set you free from these fears.

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Bottle of Tears

Lots of things may make us sad, and you know what, it is okay to feel that way. Jesus felt sad too. God understands our sadness. The Bible says, ‘You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle.’ – Psalm 56:8

  • Take an aqua bead and think about something that makes you sad.
  • Drop the aqua bead representing your ‘tear’ into the big bottle…

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Hold a pebble and let it go

Żomm Ċagħka f’Idejk u Itlaqha

“Min hu barra barra u min hu ġewwa ġewwa!” qal il-papà hekk kif Ryan u ħutu marru jiġru jistaħbew wara s-siġar u l-ħitan tas-sejjieħ. U l-papà beda jfittex lit-tfal tiegħu wieħed wieħed u waħda waħda. Kull darba li jsib lil xi ħadd fil-moħba tiegħu jgħajjat l-isem biex juri li jkun rah jew raha u jgħajjat il-kelma ‘Rajtek’…

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Love is Greater than Fear

Instructions

Fears can feel HUGE and overwhelming.

  • Take a piece of paper. Write your fears that concerns you when you feel sick.
  • Take a love-heart shape and stick it on these fears to cover them completely.
  • Quietly relate a prayer of hope asking God to set you free from these fears.

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