The benefits of children meditating are well documented. It provides instant stress relief, it helps with their ability to focus and concentrate, it develops their memory, and it can have a calming effect on hyperactive kids. All these potential benefits and it can easily be incorporated into their everyday lives with a little help.
Sensational Meditation for Children is the 2009 Nautilus Silver Medal Winner in the Parenting and Family Category and the 2009 Living Now Bronze Medal Winner in the Meditation Category. It provides parents with the necessary skills to teach their children how to meditate. Adults who are unfamiliar with meditation also use it.
It gives a wealth of information about meditation and also benefits from supporting science, practical examples and the philosophy behind it. The book contains 12 easy to learn meditations, such as Sleeping Cloud, Grounding Cord, What Does My Body Have to Say, Healing Heart and The Happy Tree. Also included are fun-filled exercises for before and after the meditation.
This is exactly what I have been looking for. My son is in desperate need of something to help ground him. He seems fine at home, but school is another story. He tends to get overwhelmed and truly lack focus.
Of course, the school hints toward ADHD. Not something I think to be the case at all. I’m a teacher and I have witnessed many children that are just active and I have seen the rare kiddo that really seemed to have little control over himself.
I think mediation could help channel his energies.
Thanks for the recommendation. Let us know if you try it out and how it works for your family.
sounds like a great resource for my kids yoga classes…………thanks for the recommendation!
This sounds like a book the whole family should be using. Thanks for the recommendation.
HA! I believe what you, and the book, say about meditating for kids, that it would indeed be helpful. But, from a practical standpoint, getting my kids to meditate is totally unreasonable :-) Like getting a tiger to go vegetarian.
Ooh, this sounds like a great book. It sounds great for both myself and for teaching my four-year-old. Thanks for sharing.