Meditation Mondays

This week’s featured Meditation:

1- First, notice how you feel before you begin.

2- Get into a comfortable, still position and then push play.

3- Notice how you feel after your meditation.. do you feel differently from when you started?

 

Mindfulness Materials:

  • Insight Timer

    Meditation and mindfulness can help children relax, be present and achieve higher levels of self confidence. Regular practice allows them to self-regulate negative emotions and develop good habits, making them happier and more compassionate.

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  • Happy Minds

    provide guided meditations for kids, sleep meditations, mindfulness, bedtime stories, and positive affirmations for young people. Happy Minds designs quality content to empower children to relax, meditate, and believe in themselves at a core level.

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  • Peaceful Kids

    Georgina Manning, Director of Wellbeing for Kids and a registered Counsellor and Psychotherapist, guides peaceful mediations for children and teens to feel calm in their body and minds

    Listen here.

  • Kids: Learn to Meditate

    This free 5 day course is lead by expert Andy Hobson. Over 5 days, kids have the opportunity to explore working with their breath and dealing with overactive thoughts, managing sad or uncomfortable feelings, learning how to be more kind to themselves and, most importantly, how to let go and slow down.

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Notice any tension in your body and let it go…

Peaceful Kids Body Scan

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Belly Breathing

1. To practice belly-breathing, ask your child to lie comfortably and place their hands on their belly (if they use a stuffed animal, then they can put it on top of their belly ).

2. As you count to three, ask them to inhale deeply through their nose. Tell them to fill their belly with air as they inhale. They should feel their belly filling up and get bigger and bigger. As they fill their belly with air, they will also see their stuffed animal or hand rise up on their belly.

3. Ask them to then exhale to a slow count of four. Tell them too slowly lower their stuffed animal, as they shrink their belly back down in a controlled slow manner.

Do 5 rounds rounds of belly-breathing and then discuss what they noticed.

 
 

“Let there be peace on Earth… and let it begin with me”

 

Thought Bubbles

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