Soothing Big Emotions In Little People - Breathwork For Kids

Use this meditation to help your little feelers work through their big emotions and begin their relationship with recognizing emotions, identifying where they stay in the body and work on self-regulation and self-soothing!
This is a comprehensive practice that any age can follow along.

Transcript

Hi there. My name is Kara and I'm going to teach you today a trick to get through big emotions. All of us feel sometimes big emotions, Big, Messy, Tangled, Confusing emotions. Did you know that it's totally okay to feel really, Really upset? Did you know it's also okay to feel really, Really angry? The important thing is what you do with it after you feel it. If we don't do anything, They kind of just sit in our body and we can stay that way. Have you ever felt that? Something happens and you wouldn't normally be really upset about it, But you didn't really help yourself and so it just kind of stayed. And then it feels like you just kind of have to stay upset. Well, I'm going to teach you a trick to help you move through emotions. All right, This is going to be a breathing thing that you can do anytime you feel upset to tell your body, Okay, I feel you, Let's move you out. Are you ready? We're going to do something called box breathing. We're going to breathe in and count to four. We're going to hold and count to four. Then we're going to breathe out and count to four. And then we're going to hold with an empty belly for a count of four. Are you ready? Great. Take a deep breath in. One, Two, Three, Four, Big breath. Hold one, Two, Three, Four, Blow it out now. One, Two, Three, Four. Hold it. One, Two, Three, Four. You did it. You did it. Do you want to try it again a couple times? All right, Here we go. Breathe in. One, Two, Three, Four. Hold two, Three, Four. Let it go. Two, Three, Four. And hold two, Three, Four. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Hold. Breathe out. Hold. Try it again on your own. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe in. Breathe out. Did anything happen with your big emotions? They probably, You breathed them out. Great job. Come back to this anytime you're feeling upset, Angry, Confused, Or fussy, And we'll breathe it out together. Thanks for joining me. See you again soon.