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Balance For Children: Navigating Big Feelings

With Sofia Eastmond

Feel peaceful inside with meditation. Learn how to navigate your big feelings and emotions and practice this meditation series to feel peaceful and balanced every day. In this 6 week course you'll listen to 6 different meditations that create an experience of wellbeing, calmness, kindness and joy inside of you. These meditations will help you deal with your big feelings, like anger, frustration, sadness and jealousy powerfully, and return you to a sense of calm. These meditations are practiced by school children in New Zealand every day, as part of a meditation programme for schools. The feedback from children like you has been great. “I think that meditation is good because it calms me down and gets me into a better mood and gets me into a learning mode. And I can imagine what it well feels like in my head, it feels really good.” “When my temper goes up I think about meditation.”   “It makes me feel so happy during the rest of the day.”   “Meditation helps me with my emotions.”   “I love it. feel so calm!” In this course you will: - Learn to notice your feelings, body sensations and create space to feel them without needing to react. - Learn to notice the space between things to feel peaceful. - Learn to Pause, Breathe, Choose to deal with overwhelming emotions. - Build confidence and resilience with positive affirmations. - Learn how to deal with negative thoughts powerfully. - Learn how to release tension in your body and return to calm. - Learn how to stay balanced and empowered in friendships. If you're a teacher, this course has been setup to be used in the classroom in a very easy way. It has all introductions and tracks so that all you have to do is press play at the beginning of the day. If you’re a parent, these meditations are great to practice at home and a great way to start or end the day. For both parents and teachers, know that by playing these meditations every day you'll be contributing to your children's wellbeing at home and in the classroom.  All with a practice backed by science. Let's go on this journey together.

12 Days

200 students

5.0 stars

6 min / day

English

About this course

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Meet your Teacher

Sofia Eastmond

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Christchurch, New Zealand

Sofia Eastmond is a certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor, trained in both the legacy of ancient vedic wisdom tradition and the modern science that explains the mind-body connection and the biological effects of meditation. She's also a ThetaHealing® Practitioner and the author of the children's book "The Magic of Who You Are." Sofia created a meditation programme for schools currently being used in New Zealand, which includes collecting data through regular feedback surveys on happiness, wellbeing and how children feel about meditation. This course is a compilation of the work being done with schools and the positive feedback she's received directly from the children practicing these meditations and their teachers. Sofia is inspired by scientific research that shows how impactful a simple daily meditation practice can have on children's wellbeing. She wants to make a difference with young children, their families and their sense of wellbeing, confidence, joy and resilience.

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12 Days

200 students

5.0 stars

6 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Welcome Your Feelings

Noticing how you feel gives you an opportunity to see what’s going on for you and understand yourself better.  It also gives you the chance to choose how you want to feel throughout your day. Today, you're going to learn how to connect with your feelings, let them move through your body and set an intention for your day.

Lesson 2

Meditation 1: Welcome Your Feelings

In this short meditation, you will connect with your feelings and let a sense of calm, love and kindness spread all over you. You will set an intention for your day and feel peaceful and joyful. Listen to this meditation for 5 days, then move on to the next track. If you find that you're ready for a new track before the 5 days are up, just move to the next lesson. What matters is that you're enjoying the practice and you keep doing it every day.

Lesson 3

Feel The Space Around You

Noticing the space between things helps you relax and feel good inside. You can do this in any situation. When you notice that you’re feeling upset, grumpy, nervous or angry, you can pause and notice and feel the space between things. This helps you get back to feeling calm and deal with your big feelings in a powerful way.

Lesson 4

Meditation 2: Feel The Space Around You

In this meditation, you're going to feel the space around you, within you and between things. You're going to feel super relaxed and receive special messages to remind you of who you are and what you're capable of. You'll feel light, confident and hopeful. Listen to this meditation for 5 days, then move on to the next track. If you find that you're ready for a new track before the 5 days are up, just move to the next lesson. What matters is that you're enjoying the practice and you keep doing it every day.

Lesson 5

Navigate Your Stormy Feelings

Handling our big feelings can be one of the hardest things (even for adults). Most people find it hard not to react in ways they’re not proud of when big feelings like anger and frustration take over. Do you experience the same? Today you're going to learn how to deal these big feelings in a powerful way.

Lesson 6

Meditation 3: Navigate Your Stormy Feelings

In today's meditation, you're going to connect with the loving, wise side of you that knows what you need, especially when you feel jealous, angry, sad or frustrated inside. You're going to bring your calm, sunny side to the storm and feel peaceful and happy. Listen to this meditation for 5 days, then move on to the next track. If you find that you're ready for a new track before the 5 days are up, just move to the next lesson. What matters is that you're enjoying the practice and you keep doing it every day.

Lesson 7

Believe In Yourself

A belief is a thought that we think over and over and over again and we begin to believe it’s true.  At some point, it becomes the way we see things. When it’s positive, this is great, because it helps us navigate life more easily. But when it’s negative, it can create struggle and impact how we experience life. Meditation is a powerful tool to help you let go of stressful thoughts and feel more confident and resilient.

Lesson 8

Meditation 4: Believe In Yourself

In this meditation, you’re going to programme your mind with ideas that make you resilient and confident. You'll feel happy and good about yourself. Listen to this meditation for 5 days, then move on to the next track. If you find that you're ready for a new track before the 5 days are up, just move to the next lesson. What matters is that you're enjoying the practice and you keep doing it every day.

Lesson 9

Relax Your Body

Have you noticed that when you feel your temper rise or when overwhelming emotions begin to take over, there are strong sensations that come with them? Squeezing different parts of your body and then relaxing them helps you notice these sensations and helps you move the energy of your big feelings and come back to a balanced state.

Lesson 10

Meditation 5: Relax Your Body

In this meditation, you're going to practice squeezing different parts of your body and then relaxing them, so you can notice the different sensations. You're going to learn to move the energy of your big feelings and come back to a balanced state. You'll feel peaceful and balanced. Listen to this meditation for 5 days, then move on to the next track. If you find that you're ready for a new track before the 5 days are up, just move to the next lesson. What matters is that you're enjoying the practice and you keep doing it every day.

Lesson 11

Navigating Friendships

We need connection and good friendships to be happy. But sometimes, friendships can be tricky. What do you do then? This is the theme of today's lesson. Feeling good inside and finding balance when you don’t is the key to more love and connection with others in your life. Meditation is a great tool to help you achieve this.

Lesson 12

Meditation 6: Navigating Friendships

In this short meditation, you will be sending love from your heart to your friends. You will connect with your beautiful heart and feel loved and connected to the people and the world around you. Listen to this meditation for 5 days, then move on to the next track. If you find that you're ready for a new track before the 5 days are up, just move to the next lesson. What matters is that you're enjoying the practice and you keep doing it every day.