Mindfulness cards

Do your thoughts often wander to past events, or do you worry about the future and spend little time in the present? Whether you're looking for ways to manage stress and everyday difficulties effectively, or simply want to try easy mindfulness exercises to enjoy the present moment more and increase your awareness and self-knowledge, these cards can help you.

50 cards – 50 exercises for everyday life

The exercises on the cards help with:

• stress management,

• emotion regulation,

• stopping rumination and overthinking,

• developing awareness and self-knowledge,

• and creating inner peace in everyday life.

The Mindfulness cards are based on the five facets of mindfulness developed by Ruth Baer and colleagues, which cover different areas of mindful presence:

Acting with awareness:

Experiencing what we are doing instead of letting our minds wander elsewhere.

Describing:

Objectively describing experiences is about how we label our experiences and how we put them into words for ourselves and others.

Observing:

Observing involves the ways we use our sensory awareness: how we see, feel and perceive the inner and outer world around us, and how we select the stimuli that call for our attention and focus.

Non-judging:

Non-judgmental experiencing means not letting our inner critic suppress our happiness and positive state of mind. It invites self-acceptance, openness and kindness toward ourselves and others.

The cards, featuring unique illustrations, are color-coded into five categories:

• Non-reactivity

• Objective description

• Attitude

• Observing

• Acting with awareness

How can you use the Mindfulness cards in everyday life?

50-day program: Try drawing a new card every day for 50 days and gain your own experience with the exercises on the cards.

For daily exploration: Draw a card in the morning and make the exercise on it your focus for the day. Or draw a card at any time during the day or in the evening and feel free to experiment with the exercise.

For stress management: If you're too stressed, you'll find exercises among the observing or non-reactivity cards that help you "put out the fires".

Conscious choice: Consciously choose a card that speaks to you. If you like, you can repeat the same exercise over several days – there's no fixed rule. Listen to your inner voice!

About the author

BELLA BAGDI

Psychologist, mindfulness teacher (MBSR, MBCT), mindful self-compassion teacher (MSC), founder and lead developer of the Happiness Lesson Program. She launched the Happiness Lesson Program in the 2014/2015 school year; more than 1,500 institutions have joined so far, which means that today more than 100,000 children and young people can take part in Happiness Lesson sessions, which students often simply call "emotion class". Bella's mission is to support people's mental health with scientifically grounded methods and thereby contribute to a happier, healthier and more compassionate society. Her best-known publications are the Happiness Lesson book series and the Pozitivity developmental games.

Awards:

• Happiness Lesson – OTP Fáy Educational Innovation Award, primary school category, 2024.

• HundrED’s Global Collection of the most impactful and scalable innovations for 2025.

HundrED, an organization that champions science-based education programs, selected the Happiness Lesson Program as one of the world's 100 most impactful school innovation programs, and it is featured in the HundrED Global Collection 2025.

Product details:

Box contents:

• 50 cards
• Guide booklet for using the cards

Card size: 90×130 mm
In a quality hard-lid box.
Recommended for ages 14 and up.