Walks Tall the Moon: Learning Mindfulness

By Robert Bollendorf

Tall Moon loses his mother at age 11 and struggles with life in his village and school from that time forward, until the tribe elders decide to send him on a vision quest and the discoveries, he makes change his life and with practice can change the lives of the readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Release date: Jun 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781643674179

Robert Bollendorf

Robert F. Bollendorf is professor emeritus of Human Services and the director of the Drug Education Center (retired) at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Currently he is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in Lisle, Illinois. A native of Wisconsin who still has a cottage there, Dr. Bollendorf was the third person named by the college of DuPage as the Illinois Community College Teacher of the Year. He has been named three times as Who's Who among America's Teachers. Also, once as Who's Who in America and in Fall 2018, will receive the Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Dedicated to the Teachers for the love and effort they put into each student.

WALKS TALL THE

MOON

LEARNING MINDFULNESS

Robert Bollendorf

Illustrator: Frank Salvatini

Walks Tall the Moon

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24.04.19

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Into Action

References

Acknowledgements

Introduction

My dear children and grandchildren this is the first story of Tall Moon— how he got his name and his early struggles and adventures.

It is hard to say exactly when Tall Moon lived, but it was before radio and TV, not to mention cell phones and computers.

From here on, just let the story flow over you.

The exercises come from something called mindfulness. I hope you will read it as a family and that you learn what Tall Moon learns. After you have gone through the story, pick out one or two of the exercises he does and do them every day just for a minute or two. Maybe take a walk in the woods and do some of the things Tall Moon does with your family. If you do them, science says you will actually increase the size and ability of parts of your brain that help you to make good decisions— like what to put into your body, whether to