Author: Marnix Buijs / Source: Lifehack
Do you want the best for your kid? Of course you do!
Boosting your kid’s learning ability and social skills in less than 20 minutes a day? That’s where guided meditation for kids comes in.
You have probably heard a lot about meditation the last couple years. As there’s more and more research in the area of meditation, a lot of people finally start to see the benefits.
A subject that’s not talked about too much is that meditation can also help kids grow incredible learning and social skills.
Meditation for kids is becoming more popular every day as parents want their kids to see the benefits too.
What is guided meditation for kids?
First things first, what exactly is the guided meditation for kids that is talked about in this article?
We can define meditation with the help of Headspace:[1]
Meditation is about training in awareness and getting a healthy sense of perspective. You’re not trying to turn off your thoughts or feelings. You’re learning to observe them without judgment. And eventually, you may start to better understand them as well.
And according to GuidedMind, guided meditation is:[2]
Guided meditation is when you are guided, by a narrator, to elicit a specific change in your life. You are first guided to relax your body and mind, to help you reach a deep meditative state before going on a journey, in your mind, to reach a specific goal.
If you want to get into guided meditation, read this:
As you may know, there are a lot of variations on meditation. This includes:
- Mindfulness, focusing on the breath while accepting everything that’s happening (thoughts, sounds, etc. ).
- (Guided) Visualization, visualizing a particular event, environment, feeling, etc.
- Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM), focusing on the breath and the heart while feeling at one with everything. A focus on downward energy flow within the body.
- Transcendental Meditation (TM), this technique is literally about transcending the negative through internal mantras.
- Qi Gong, this is a form of meditation that is done through specific movement patterns while focusing on the breath.
- Kundalini focuses on the upward flow of energy within the body. Focusing on that energy with your breath gives you a higher sense of consciousness.
- Zazen, sitting with a back straight while focusing on deep breaths.
You can find out more about different forms in this article:
17 Types of Meditation (Techniques and Basics) to Practice Mindfulness
All these forms of meditation can be done individually or guided. Guided meditation for kids is the best choice because it will make it easier for them to follow and understand.
The benefits of meditation for kids
There are a lot of benefits meditation has to offer, but the most important benefit is that it relieves stress. In this time and age, this becomes more important than ever.
(Post-)millennials are dealing with a lot of stress due to the amount of work pressure, opportunities (decision making) and student loan debt (which results in wanting early financial success).[3]
Making sure children are stress resistant is of high importance for the future of their lives.
Of course, there are way more benefits to meditation. So, to convince you further; here follow more benefits to meditation.
There are precisely 76 benefits to meditation which are scientifically proved.[4] But the main benefits of meditation are:
Here I’m going to look into some of meditation’s benefits that parents care about most:
Boost learning ability
The question is: ‘How does meditation for kids improve learning ability?’
There are, of course, multiple answers but there’s one simple answer; concentration. As you read earlier on in this article, meditation improves the ability to concentrate.
If the ability to concentrate increases, it will lead to an increased attention span which is one of the factors that affect learning.
By implementing guided meditation into your kids’ life; he/she will become a better learner.
Another reason to increase the attention span of your child beside learning is that our average attention span per person is decreasing exponentially because of…
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