Kids: Learn To Meditate

Today you’ll learn helpful ways to feel more calm and peaceful when you have strong feelings like anger, sadness, fear or worry. When we have a thought about something it can create a feeling inside our body. Feelings can sometimes make us feel unsettled or just a bit wobbly. In our meditation today, you'll be encouraged to notice where feelings show up in your body, get to know them in a new way and use your breath to help calm them a little. Doing this can help you have more understanding of your feelings, give you some space to respond to them and let them naturally settle when they’re ready.

Today we’ll explore the importance of self kindness. Sometimes we judge ourselves unfairly, comparing ourselves to other people like friends, family and successful people on the internet. Doing this doesn’t make us feel great and can limit what we think we’re capable of. Your meditation today is about self kindness, kindness to others and remembering that you are awesome no matter what your mind thinks. You can always be yourself without having to try to be someone you're not, please anyone or achieve anything. Today is all about you being you, just as you are.

In the last lesson of this course you’ll learn about the importance of pausing and taking time out to relax. Life as a kid can get pretty busy and sometimes we can feel the pressure. After all, you have school, homework, school tests, friends to figure out, and adults telling you what and what not to do so it’s important to slow down and have some YOU time. In our visualisation meditation today you’re going to take a trip to the beach to do just one thing...chill out. We’ll end the session with a short piece of information on how to keep going with meditation and how to make it work for you. Everyone is different and some meditation styles will be more helpful to us than others. Congratulations on completing this 5 day adventure into meditation. Well done!