Kids and Meditation

How teaching meditation to children. While adults tend to use meditation to leave everyday stress, in children the benefits are, how to improve concentration and learning. Here is a guide to start your children in meditation.

Benefits of meditation for kids

Meditation is normally associated with adults, stress, or perhaps religious practices: rarely think about kids doing this. But this is a practice that does not discriminate genders, age, and religion. In addition, teaching children to meditate from an early age, may be key to well-being throughout their life.

In adulthood, meditation allows us to balance our inner soul, be facilitating our concentration and interaction with the surrounding world. In children happens something similar, although with associated also with their learning benefits.

Meditation for children is a training of the mind which leads to a better concentration, thus improving the interaction of the child in the school and educational process. Similarly, the meditation and concentration improvement allows a better process of memory, thus facilitating durable and best foundation learning.

In other respects, the age child and pre-teen is a stage complicated at the psychic level. The understanding of the world and reality often lead to the notion of adverse situations, fears and uncertainties, and a difficult understanding of adult notions such as wars, abuse of the environment, doubts and fears about their future adulthood. Meditation allows you to renew the energy of the body and calm the mind, working much in the decline or disappearance of the anxiety and fears.

Technique for teaching meditation to children

Very likely is that children need instructions or guides to learn how to meditate. Although the ideal would be to have specialized assistance, with instructors who know of the matter, well you can be you who instruct your children to engage in meditation, if you have the necessary notions.
At the end of the day, with the homework already done and already fulfilled tasks, meet family, without TV nor aggressive external stimuli or invasive. Seated, best on the floor and in a comfortable pose (as Indian, with legs crossed and your back straight), requests to your children that they close their eyes and breathe slowly and deeply. See giving instructions in a calm voice, low volume: inspires, keep the air in your lungs and exhale slowly.

To teach meditation to children, get the first days only make this task of breathing into a healthy habit. Then, as they will increase comfort with the breathing technique, begins to incorporate new concepts in instructions: let go of your anger, let go of the fears, freeing your mind of thoughts, or help children visualize landscapes and calm situations, as "imagine a field with grass, feel the breeze on your skin, feel the sun warming up your body" or similar.

As they go past the days in the technique of meditation for your children, minimizes instructions, allowing children to stop along your thoughts and feelings of peace and calm, visualizing, or simply focusing on your breathing. Finish each session with deep, slow breathing, slowly opening her eyes, and commenting on the experience each other with open mind and heart, making the children feel comfortable to learn to meditate.

Meditation for children: don't talk as adults do

If you talk to a child about stress, tension, and anxiety, you probably don't capture his attention. And it is that the child is a child, and does not suffer the same daily conflicts as an adult. Still do not understand the concepts of stress, anxiety, but it feels sensations and emotions adverse and contrary to happiness. For this reason, to teach meditation for children aims to allow him the time and space needed to go only internalized the concept of inner peace, memory, and concentration, to understand the importance of the meditation process.

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About Amira

Hi everyone. I was born in Brazil so many years ago. There I made my first steps in religion and meditation. I traveled the world learning from great masters. Since '70s I'm helping people of good heart finding peace, love, or whatever their need. Welcome to my site and Namaste.