Children's Meditation: Exploring Breathing

Meditation helps children relax into a calm and peaceful place from hours of play. This meditation uses soothing voice and simple instruction to help your child wind down. "Where is your breath?" "Can you find where your breath goes?" Use this meditation to help your child get ready for bedtime or to teach your child to unwind from overactivity by following their breathing.

Transcript

Would you like to know how to have calm and peaceful feelings? By exploring your breathing you can find calm peaceful feelings inside no matter where you are. Let's sit in a comfortable position. It's okay to feel squirmy at first. Sometimes moving calms you down and makes you more comfortable. Get as comfortable as you can and listen to my voice. You may want to move your hands or your legs or your arms and feet. What we're going to do is we're going to develop a calm and peaceful place where we will rest in our breath. Where is your breath? Can you tell where your breath is coming in? For most people the breath comes in through your nose or maybe it comes in through your mouth. Where do you feel your breath come into your body? Where do you feel your breath come into your body? Are you able to follow your breath to the place in your body where it goes? It could be your chest or your belly. Do you feel it coming into your chest or your belly? This is called your inhale. Can you put your fingers on the place where your breath is coming into your body? Can you put your hand on the place in your body where the air goes? This is your inhale and this inhale takes you to calm and peaceful feelings. Good. Now can you put your fingers where your breath goes out? Is this place your nose or your mouth? Can you feel the air coming into your body and can you feel the soft breeze as the air leaves your body? Put your fingers where the air goes out of your body. Is it your nose or your mouth? Can you feel the air going out of your body? This is called your exhale. Now I would like you to put two fingers on the place where the air enters your body as you inhale and with the other hand where the air goes into your body. Maybe the air goes into your belly or chest. Right now we are just stopping and following our breathing, Our inhale and our exhale. Notice if your inhale is cool air coming into your nose or your mouth and notice if it is warm air coming out as you exhale. Inhaling and exhaling. Thoughts may come into your mind. That's okay. Just put your thoughts inside a bubble that floats away. All of your worries floating away. Maybe you have thoughts of someone who hurt your feelings or maybe you have to take a test and that makes you worry. Maybe you have an important game to play or maybe you just heard an argument. All of your worries float away in a bubble as you let go and feel the air come into your body and the air go out as you inhale and exhale. Continue breathing in this way noticing each time you inhale and exhale. Every time you do this you have calm and peaceful feelings. Know that at any time you watch your breath and imagine that bubbles carry away your worries. You can have calm and peaceful feelings. Now you've explored your breath and carried away your worries and you're now calm and peaceful.

Reviews

Perfect, calmed my 4 yr old down ready for a good nights sleep