Letting Go Of Worry For Children

This short meditation helps children gently relax and let their worries float away. Through calm breathing and peaceful imagination, it helps the mind and body feel safe, quiet, and calm, making space for warmer thoughts.

Transcript

Hello everyone. Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Let your hands rest softly in your lap or by your sides. If you like you can close your eyes or just look softly at the floor. Now take a slow breath in through your nose and breathe out through your mouth. Let's try that again. Slow breath in and slow breath out. One more time. Breathing in and breathing out. Now imagine that you are lying on soft green grass in a peaceful field. Above you is a big blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. The clouds move slowly and gently across the sky. Sometimes our worries feel like little buzzing thoughts in our heads. But today we're going to let those worries float away. Imagine that each worry you have is a tiny cloud. Maybe it's a worry about school. Maybe it's a worry about something that happened today. Or maybe it's a worry you can't quite explain. Picture that worry cloud floating above you. Now take a slow breath in and as you breathe out gently blow that cloud into the sky. Watch it float further and further until it becomes smaller and smaller. You can send another worry cloud away too. Breathe in and breathe out. Letting that cloud drift across the sky. Soon the sky above you feels clearer and calmer. Your body feels soft and relaxed and your shoulders are loose. Your face is calm. Take one more slow breath in and breathe out gently. Remember worries can come and go like clouds and you always have your calm breathing to help them float away. When you're ready wiggle your fingers and toes and slowly open your eyes. You did a wonderful job.