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Meditations and mindful tips for you and the family – COVID-19

March 25, 2020amygdala, anger, anxiety, behaviour kids, Blog, calm kids, challenges, free meditation, gratitude, heart-centre, mental health, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, negativity bias, parenting, schools, sensory schools, special needs, technologyCOVID-19 meditation, family meditation, free meditation, kids meditation, parenting meditationlorraine

Welcome and hope you find this blog useful in this strange and challenging time.

I don’t know about you, but life feels like we’ve been put on a roller coaster (without our permission) and we are on for a ride of ups and downs.

I’ve been practising meditation for over 30 years and even I feel tested to my limit by world events. However I have strong resillience, mentally and emotionally, because of my meditation practice. But I realise that many people (and children) are reeling from everything and don’t have lifeskills to help them through.

So our team of Connected Kids Tutors, Trainers and Students have decided to offer some meditation practices and mindful tips on this blogpost – to be used by you, your family or both.

These are free for you to use and share.

We know how much having this skill helps us (it’s why we teach people worldwide!) and we just want to share and help everyone have a little bit more peace of mind (and resillience) through this challenging journey.

We hope it helps and please let us know via our Facebook group, or Twitter or Facebook page (or ask us a question). We’ll be adding more on as they come through so remember to visit this page or join our social media to be kept informed.

Namaste

Lorraine E Murray – Founder and the Connected Kids Team

Listen to the meditation recordings (more to come). Watch the recordings and decide (or let your family choose) what feels best for you and your kids.

(Please note the quality of sound will vary as each person used whatever device they had to record from home!)

Tree of Protection Meditation for kids – by Connected Kids founder Lorraine Murray

Golden Spacesuit meditation for kids on the Autism spectrum – by Connected Kids founder Lorraine Murray

Mindful tip to engage kids in meditation – Lorraine Murray

Pranyama Breathing for Anxiety – by Judy Lam

Mindful rainbows, drawing/colouring tips by – Jackie McBeath

Mindful Colouring tips – by Lorraine Forsyth

Mindful Tips for parents – by Pippa Elwood

Coping mindfully with anxiety – by Tara Russo

Straw breath-painting – breath work (create a rainbow) – by Sue Hurst

Mindful Breath ideas for young kids (under 10) to reduce anxiety – by Lorraine Murray

Sound Meditation to help boost immune system – by Gary Posner

A note from Gary... “Before you listen to the Immune Enhancing Tuning Fork Meditation. Close your eyes and start breathing. Feel each breath you take moving through your whole body. Feel your breath waking up in every cell in your body. ”

We would also suggest asking your kids to notice where they feel the sound in their body as they listen and breathe.

3 Breaths Meditation to calm – by Alice Chinn

The Lighthouse meditation – by Sara Graham

The magical forest meditation for 7 to 11 year old kids – by Tara Russo

Rainbow breathing for kids – by Chris Maxwell

tech and social media addiction in kids – can meditation help?

February 20, 2020anger, behaviour kids, Blog, challenges, child development, gaming addiction, getting started, mental health, mindfulness, parenting, self regulation, social media addiction, technology, teensgaming, phone addiction, social media, tiktoklorraine

You are probably reading this article on your mobile phone or computer – perhaps a friend shared it through social media or you did a google search for ‘teach children meditation’.

The irony is that we use social media and tech in our lives so much that we don’t notice how much it may be affecting our well being. This is true for our kids and teens too.

Is tech really that bad for kids?

Perhaps you remember the candy cigarettes we use to have as kids? You know the ones where we pretended (as kids) to smoke even though we knew it was candy. Interestingly the sales of these are now banned in the UK as society has realised, and has the research to prove, that smoking damages our health. But back in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s this wasn’t the case. People thought of smoking as a slimming device or it was just regarded as a social habit. Now we know the truth.

I feel the same about phones and laptops for kids. At some point, as a society, we will realise we have allowed our children to access technology too early; children with screens attached to car seats or buggies…giving our kids our mobile phone to play with so they’ll be quiet.

It’s interesting that parents who work (and create) this technology don’t allow their children to have access to this tech.

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School holidays – 2 ‘mindful’ books for kids/teens

June 20, 2019anger, anxiety, behaviour kids, breath, bullying, challenges, compassion, creativity, educating, emotional intelligence, emotions, getting started, gratitude, holidays, loneliness, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, parenting, resources, teensmindful books kids, mindful books teenslorraine

I’ve just finished reading…

…A book called ‘Eva and the Universe‘ by D. M Green.

It’s the 2nd (the previous one is ‘Jim and the Universe‘) and they are a perfect read to help introduce mindful awareness in a fictional way for kids who have big changes/struggles.

Eva is about a girl (I’m guessing 10) who always gets into trouble at school and then has a big life change where her father dies.

Jim is about a 12 year old boy starting high school and how he meets someone who helps him (mindfully) cope with the pressures.

Both books really touch on the importance of gratitude, energy and how children can bring self awareness to their lives more mindfully to achieve their potential and have more self compassion and self esteem.

I simply loved them and know (having read them to kids we have in our care) how they really like them too.

I hope you enjoy them!

(P.S. I’ve just posted ‘5 mindful tips for the summer holidays’ on our FB page and group)

Getting started…

Take the Foundation course – to teach your kids and teens mindful meditation

Professional Training – to become a certified Kids Meditation Teacher

Teach Children Meditation Books – learn more about the benefits of meditation for kids including those with SEN/Autism/Anxiety/ADHD

Free Meditation downloads for children/teens/autism – created by the international trainer, expert and founder of Connected Kids programme.

Star Meditation for kids of all ages – free

May 1, 2019anxiety, Autism, behaviour kids, bullying, calm kids, challenges, change the world, compassion, creativity, emotional intelligence, emotions, getting started, loneliness, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness in schools, parenting, planting the seeds, pre-school, sleep, special needs, stress, toddlers, world peaceanxiety kids, bullying kids, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, star meditation kids, stress kidslorraine

I was meditating one day and I was inspired by this star meditation idea to help kids relax, reduce anxiety and feel a stronger, peaceful connection with the world.

It may be ideal for bed time or to help kids simply relax. It may help with bullying too.

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High energy children – trying to teach them meditation

April 10, 2019ADHD, anxiety, Autism, behaviour kids, challenges, child development, compassion, emotions, fostering, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, special needs, toddlers, yogahigh energy kids, meditation, mindfulnesslorraine

Expert advice about high energy children and mindful meditation

Listen to the founder of Connected Kids present a few ideas when trying to teach high energy children meditation and mindfulness.

Want to know more?

Foundation course – to teach your kids and teens mindful meditation

Professional Training – to become a verified Kids Meditation Teacher

Teach Children Meditation Books – learn more about the benefits of meditation for kids including those with SEN/Autism/Anxiety/ADHD

Free Meditation downloads for children/teens/autism – created by the international trainer, expert and founder of Connected Kids programme.