Mindfulness is the key to waking up to the inner workings of your kid’s mental, emotional, and physical processes.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the basic human ability of being aware of your thoughts, your inner emotions and physical sensations. It enhances your awareness and enables you to experience "the now".
Mindfulness helps raise your consciousness about your surrounding environment with which you can observe and analyze better.
Consciously paying attention to your thoughts, feelings and surroundings makes you more playful, improves your focus and concentration, maximizes your enjoyment and helps you wind down for a relaxing night’s sleep.
Tips on how you can Teach your children this amazing life skill:
Introduce your kids to Mindful Meditation - Regular practice of mindfulness meditation has benefits for their physical as well as their mental health.
Restrict their exposure to Screen Time - Exposure to social media and online entertainment reduces the attention span of children.
Body Scan to Strengthen Focus -This practice demands your kid’s attention to focus on different parts of their body in a systematic way, starting from their feet, all the way up to the muscles of their face. It is designed to help develop a mindful awareness of bodily sensations, and to relieve tension when possible.
A Basic Awareness of Breathing Practice - This practice involves being completely aware and conscious about your breathing. This practice will help your little once enhance their mind-body connection and nervous system regulation.
Teach them Self-acceptance - Lack of self-acceptance can hold your child back in every aspect of their life. Self-acceptance increases their confidence and can enable them to reach their full potential.
Mindfulness as medicine
Being mindful can act as medicine for your kid if he/she is:
• Facing feelings of anxiety/depression.
• Distracted or finding it hard to concentrate in class.
• Stressed.
• Having a hard time practicing self-compassion.
• Struggling with overeating or excessive snacking.
• Always leading towards negative emotions.
• Not able to socialize.
• Finding it hard to move on from a tragic past.
As your child spends time practicing mindfulness, they’ll probably find themselves feeling kinder, calmer, and more patient. These shifts in your kid’s experience are likely to generate changes in other parts of their life as well.
