Meditation For Your Children - Hand Breathing

This meditation is for parents and children to do together. My daughter and I practice what we call the hand breathing technique daily, and it has helped her learn how to control her breathe and calm down in stressful situations. Tracing the hand to count the breaths is a simple and helpful tool for your younger children to learn how to breathe more calmly.

Transcript

Hi,

My name is Evan Fried,

And this is a meditation for parents to do with their children.

I have two daughters,

And I do this with my eldest every night before bed,

Usually,

Or when she's having some really strong anxiety.

And we call it the hand meditation because it's really simple,

And it makes counting breaths and meditating easy,

Like very easy.

So all we do is we put our hand out,

And we take our pointer finger,

And we put it at the base of our thumb,

And then we start breathing.

We inhale on the way up the finger.

We exhale on the way down.

Before we start doing this,

I have a few pointers.

On the inhale,

You want to make sure that your belly is feeling like a balloon.

On the exhale,

You want the belly to kind of contract and let all the air out of the balloon.

This is a strong,

Healthy breath that helps reduce anxiety.

So we're going to start right now on the inhale,

Up the thumb.

Inhale down to the crevice.

Inhale up the pointer.

Exhale down to the crevice.

Inhale up the middle finger,

And down to the crevice.

Inhale up the ring finger.

Exhale again.

Inhale and exhale.

You can do this as many times as you need until your child has calmed down or has gone to a little bit of a centered place.

My daughter and I have fun with this.

Sometimes she makes me start at the top of my head or on my back,

But we try to make it really fun and not serious.

So just continue that hand breath with your child.

Even use it yourself when you get into a situation that's really frustrating.

It's a really easy technique to really be able to count and manage the breath.

So I hope you enjoyed that and that you and your children can practice this daily.

Reviews

Very nice

My 5yo is so fascinated with this meditation! I think it’s because of the picture(it’s real kids and not drawn), but she’s listened to this 2-3 times in a row for the last couple of nights, and is genuinely trying to do exactly what is explained! She also goes to sleep quickly after listening a couple times. Thank you for making this 💖