guided meditation for children
Soothing uncomfortable feelings
Soothing uncomfortable feelings
This meditation focuses on the connection between emotions and sensations in the body and aims to relax areas of tension as a way of providing comfort for oneself. However, paying closer attention to difficult emotions or painful sensations in the body might intensify these feelings. As always, it’s important to notice when practices are feeling counterproductive. We need to be especially nonjudgmental, open, and flexible with children who are experiencing uncomfortable feelings.
Note: The “clothing visualization” is my adaptation of an ideokinetic technique developed by Lulu E. Sweigard, “The Empty Suit.” (Lulu E. Sweigard, Human Movement Potential, Allegro Editions, 1974, P. 232.)this exercise, children are guided through a process of paying attention to the breath.