Feelings

A brief practice to support mindfulness of Feelings (emotions) created for children and enjoyed by people of all ages.

Transcript

Sometimes it can be helpful to meet our feelings in the still quiet place,

Especially if we are feeling angry or sad or afraid.

You can do this practice sitting or lying down.

As always the way to begin is to feel your breath in your belly.

Feel the expanding of the in-breath and the relaxing of the out-breath.

When you are ready say hello to whatever you are feeling right now.

You may want to ask your feeling its name.

Feelings may have names like shy,

Happy or upset or more unusual names like stormy,

Bubbly,

Fiery and empty.

Let the feeling tell you its name.

Always say hello.

Now notice where the feeling is in your body.

Is it moving in your belly?

Is it sitting in your chest?

Is it hiding in your toe or the bend of your elbow?

Notice what color the feeling is.

Bright red,

Dark brown,

Deep blue.

Maybe it's a mixture of colors.

Notice how the feeling feels.

Is it soft or hard?

Heavy or light?

Is it closed or open?

Listen and hear if the feeling has a sound.

Does it whisper or giggle,

Scream or groan?

Now ask the feeling what it needs and listen very carefully to its answer.

Maybe it wants to draw a picture or talk to someone or bang a drum or maybe it just needs a hug and some love and understanding.

See if you can give the feeling what it needs.

Remember you can make friends with any feeling by sitting with it in your still quiet place.

Reviews

Have you heard of internal family systems? This meditation is perfect for orienting children (and adults ;) ) to the practices of this model of psychotherapy.

This is brilliant for my 4 year olds wind down time. It helps her identify her feelings. Thank you.

I will definitely be using this with my child clients but personally loved it myself. Thank you 🙏

Absolutely phenomenal. I have tremendously enjoyed this meditation and will practice it with my child. Thank you.

Nice meditation to help children understand what they are feeling and help them know that those feeling won’t hurt them. It’s okay to have those feeling.

Lovely- thank you

Thank you this is so helpful for a tween going through such a challenging time.

I really like that because iv been having some big feelings.

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This is my favourite meditation 😁

My children loved this; it helped them to explore their feelings mindfully. Thank you.

This was nice for me tonight. I’m almost 48 years old and only now learning how to be with my feelings. This made me think that I can do a little practice to accept my feelings and make some space for them. Thank you

Hello Amy, this was one of the best yet! Thanks for helping me and giving me ideas of what to do when feeling any type of emotion. 😀😀🙃🙃

Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

I am new in Al Anon. Feelings are difficult for me right now. I think this can help. I can take 3 minutes to find my feeling.

This is excellent, thank you

Perfect. Short and effective 2017 II 3/26/20

Great way of quickly connecting to what you are feeling.

Very helpful and thoughtful. I plan to use and share with my clients this week in therapy.

I have difficulty understanding and identifying my emotions. This little meditation is very helpful. Thank you.