Why Meditation for Children

Meditation techniques for children can help them relax and focus better during school, so that they can concentrate and memorize more effectively. From the spiritual perspective, good meditation techniques teach children self-awareness, encourage them to be themselves, and help them face life with greater belief in their potential.

Parents always ask how we can we help our kids to be happy, caring and calm little individuals in today's world along with balancing what they learn at school?  Ideally, the education of children should integrate their intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual development. However, present day education is primarily focused on academic achievement with some additional emphasis on sport and physical education. The emotional and spiritual development of children tends to receive less attention. Education has the important aspect in how the outer world helps the child to acquire various skills which eventually help them to earn a living.  Meditation deals with their inner world and their personal development in the art of living, whereby they can live a balanced and productive life based in inner strength, positive actions and harmonious relationships. Schools and parents can encourage children to follow this through life and attain their goal easily.

Meditation for children just might be the key to raising offspring with a sense of focus and well being. Meditation for children can alleviate stress and anxiety, frustration, fear, anger, restlessness, and many more symptoms children suffer in this fast paced life we live in. Teaching a child how to meditate is quite easy, yet some parents feel that it’s difficult to get their children interested in meditation, or to convince them to meditate. At first I couldn’t imagine why, until a friend told me that her kid refuses to even try a meditation with her when she does her own meditation. Teachers who build meditation into lesson plans report their classroom environments being more peaceful and attribute this to their students’ ability to express compassion to each other. Schools can promote its practice well.

Meditation is a process that teaches principles allowing you to control your thoughts, focusing your mind and concentration on a single idea or phrase. For children, the easiest way to meditate is to find and listen to one’s own heartbeat. The heart is an organ that keeps us alive and allows us to feel love or sadness. By listening to our hearts we can understand more about our self and know our own hearts.

Meditation is not an overnight exercise. Children won’t feel the benefits immediately, but with regular practice, just five minutes a day can bring positive changes to their life and learning ability. Of course the best thing to do is be a role model and use meditation in your life as well!