Conscious You Conscious Youth: How to Connect with Your Youth or Teen, While Building Your Own Spiritual Ground.

By Tori B. Amos

Conscious YOU Conscious YOUth is an early developmental activity workbook, featuring Eastern techniques such as Reiki, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. It features interviews by leading professionals in the field, including Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation.

The histories of these techniques and chapter notes are included. These chapter notes provide a total view of the topics and the ease of implementation into your daily routine. The characters, games, and activities are designed to help form a positive foundation for youth. This offers a strong foundation for self-help, positive energy, meditation, affirmations, and good healthy practices. Discover the many learning activities that will inspire pertinent discussion and promote continuity.

Conscious YOU Conscious YOUth offers support for the youth and others in your life. Building upon this solid foundation, information and enrichment will be supplied for a lifetime.

These skills will help you navigate through the hard times that life sometimes brings. The mission is to learn and mature with more grace and ease. Drawing from the insights of this solid ground, the youth will enter into adulthood more balanced, focused, and centered. Mission accomplished! The youth will grow aware, ready, and confident, able to succeed in their modern world.

The mind, body approach to promoting learning readiness is absolutely essential, and the results are quite dramatic!

Experts of the interview from Bob Roth, Executive Director The David Lynch Foundation.

Tori, you are a noble soul and doing a great service to the next generations!

Endorsement from Bob Roth Executive Director, The David Lynch Foundation

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781452593920

Tori B. Amos

Tori B. Amos, founder of National Children’s Meditation Day, is a mother and wellness and healing professional. She’s passionate about teaching lifestyles to create a more enjoyable and fulfilling life, for the total being, Tori encourages healing and peace of mind. She has lived in the Bay Area for over eighteen years.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 1/19/2015

Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1 Creating a Space for a Youth to Meditate

Chapter notes for personal guide (support person)

Motivation for Personal Guide

Rational

Phone interview with Bob Roth June 2012

Benefits of Meditation

Q & A with J.G. Larochette of the Mindful Life Project

Why Meditation?

History of Meditation

Creating a Space for a Youth to Meditate

Why Meditation?

Meditation Begins

Ready Set Go!

Ten Styles of Meditation:

People and Personalities

A Mantra for Protection

Acceptance is Key To the Door of Success

Kite Effect

Be Prepared

Focus Wheel

Focus Wheel Activity

Infinite Focus Wheel

The Mind Body Awareness Experience, Continuing to Cross Training ™

Chapter 2 Yoga and You

Use of yoga for Health in the United States

Q & A with Rhonda Jones

Types of yoga styles covered in this chapter:

History

Eight Benefits of Yoga for Youth:

Q & A

Styles of Yoga

Yoga Vocabulary

Waking Up Your Joints Activity!

Yoga Pose Diagrams

Sun Salutations

Suggested Daily Practice

Pose and Its Reflection

Choose Your Animal Activity

Lotus is a Meditation and Concentration Pose

Focus While You Lotus Activity

Namaste

Science of the Heart and Mind

Meditation Activities

Mindful Walking Meditation

Warming Hands and Feet

Sleep Time

Balloon Meditation / Visualization

Seeing And Memory Activity

Wake Up Time Activity

Stretching

Sleep Time Mantra

Devotion to your practice

Chapter 3 Reiki Energy

Chapter Notes for the Guide (support person)

Reiki for Children and Teens

Reiki Benefits for Children and Teens

ADD or ADHD

Autism

Meaning of Reiki

History of Usui Reiki & Dr. Mikao Usui

Reiki Attunement

More Benefits of Reiki

Creating an Energy Ball

Every Living Being has Life Force Energy

Seven Main Chakras

Aura

Aura Layer Activity

The Seven Layers of the Aura Fields Activity

Visualize the Rainbow Mediation

Making the Healthy Choice

Mandala

Growing Your Own Inner Garden

Feeling Your Own Energy

Cross Crawl

Hook Ups

Endless River of Abundance

Vocabulary Page

Prologue

It is understandable that humanity is constantly trying to tweak and renew itself. It is also understandable that this type of human alignment is more easily done during the youthful or childhood years.

According to the particular child or youth, there will be different needs to consider. However, there are basic needs of youthful humanity. They are love, affection, attention, security, and guidance. These needs may also be met in later years of life. However, during the youthful years, the needs are more easily accomplished. Generally speaking, these needs may be considered physical, emotional or spiritual.

For over 5000 years, some of humanity, through different meditation modalities, have successfully empowered its youth. Since these needs are fundamental and universal, consider this: wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of humanity could empower its youth with the spiritual and emotional fortitude to face the uncertainties of tomorrow?

Along with satisfying the basic needs, the empowered youth will have the patience and ability to relax and help themselves. That is the key, to help themselves! Wouldn’t that be awesome? Within the pages of this book, there are some real answers. It is guaranteed!

A Child’s Needs

A child needs love.

A child needs affection.

A child needs attention and not rejection.

A child needs direction.

A child needs care.

A child needs to know that you’re always there.

A child needs discipline.

A child needs a smile.

A child needs to learn to feel worthwhile.

Brenda S. Amos, Ed D.

Creating a Space for a Youth to Meditate

Chapter notes for personal guide (support person)

Motivation for Personal Guide

Creating a Space for a Youth to Meditate is a go to guide for anyone who has a youth to love or parent. Because many of the meditations in the chapter are beneficial to all age groups, there are suggestions for all to explore.

This is a how to guide with tips, techniques, activities and interviews from people with different meditation backgrounds. These techniques are sure to have the youth of every age group and their personal guides creating a space. Meditation is not only about creating a physical space but also finding the emotional and mental space, from within.

Today’s world is fast paced. Social media, video games, texting, blogging, fast food and social activities, keep most families and kids on the run. This fast pace can overload brain waves, lead to hyperactivity, sleeping disorders, learning disorders and poor diets.

Such circumstances can often lead to poor grades, lack of emotional stability and self-control. It can also lead to illnesses and inappropriate behaviors, as well as arguing and low self- esteem. By offering a youth a chance to meditate, the necessary time is provided for unplugging and de-stressing. The youth can let go of worry from within and reconfigure the emotional self. By embracing this practice, meditation can be used to create and sustain a healthy and happy lifestyle.

Meditation expands the imagination and clears a path for the creative process. It clears emotional blocks and allows natural energy to flow. It is significant to note that for generations to come, this imagination and creativity will become a part of the process of technology and invention. Also in future times of struggle, this creative process will help support unity and peace.

It is beneficial for a personal guide to instruct and support a youth that is practicing meditation. This personal guide is a person who inspires confidence and also provides the training. When meditation begins, the challenge for the personal guide is to relax the youth. For at least the first