A Meditation Story For Kids: The Seven Little Chakras

By Flossie Ang

Do you want to improve the connection you have with your child?

Do you have a child who is disruptive or is having troubles or sadness?

"The Seven Little Chakras-Meditation for Kids" is for you!

Children who practice meditation become much more in touch with their inner selves and learn to feel a loving, kindness, and compassion for themselves and others. "The Seven Little Chakras-Meditation for Kids" is a wonderful guide that parents can use to introduce children to the experience of meditation practice. Establishing a daily meditation practice facilitates happiness and healthfulness in their lives and yours. You and your child will love the bond you will form practicing meditation, as well as the time spent together exploring and experiencing the joys and benefits of meditation.

The following are the highlights in this fabulous new book, which offers concise, fun, and easy steps to learn meditation and is taught by the parent to the child.

Learn an understanding of what mindfulness and meditation are

Learn the explanation of the body's Seven Chakras and how energy flow relates to meditation

Learn how parents can introduce meditation to children

Create an environment for successful meditation practice; in terms of space and mindset

Learn how to focus the mind for meditation through relaxation and breathing techniques

Experience specific, guided meditation practices you and your child do together - broken down by chapter - for toddlers, young children, older children, and teenagers 

Establish good habits and positivity through meditation

Learn advanced techniques for more experienced practitioners and how to maintain healthy meditation habits

The concepts presented in "The Seven Little Chakras-Meditation for Kids" are easy for the parent to teach and easy for the child to learn. 

Starting with toddlers, children will learn techniques that focus the attention on a single word, a color, or object while holding fun and simple poses. Next, they learn to focus on a sound. There is a description of how to use meditation techniques to help lessen tantrums, identify feelings, and learn to find a happy balance with daily events.

Children aged 4 to 7 years old will begin their meditation journey by learning to focus on a short phrase, image visualization, and focusing on the five senses. They learn to identify feelings that arise while doing relaxed breathing techniques and how to cultivate a positive experience from their efforts.

Children aged 8 to 12 are old enough to learn to meditate using mantra phrases. They will also use techniques of image visualization and a focus on the five senses, identifying feelings. This age group will focus on meditation for cultivating a positive experience and developing a good self-image.

There is a description of advanced meditation and mindfulness exercises for the teenager and for the more advanced practitioner. This chapter focuses on handling stress, navigating difficult emotions and challenges that occur during teenage years and beyond.

Whatever the age, "The Seven Little Chakras-Meditation for Kids" will encourage your child to expand their sense of self so they may better solve challenges that may occur later in their life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abel Publishing
• Release date: Nov 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201868123

Book preview

Chapter 1: Getting Started

What is Meditation?

Meditation is the practice of focusing our thought processes in connection with the body, using specific techniques to achieve a more tranquil mind and peaceful state of being. A common misconception of what it means to practice meditation is to clear your mind of all thoughts, but meditation is about clarity, but it is not about getting rid of your thoughts. It is impossible to empty the mind of thought; the mind is never empty of thought because it needs thoughts to sustain itself. Instead, meditation focuses on the ideas that arise in your mind, and it is learning how to regulate them more effectively. This practice leads to more clarity and reduces the clutter and noise that can occur in your mind by focusing on a simple concept for a specific amount of time. The goal is to become mindful of living in the present and to appreciate everything in our lives. In meditation, there is a focus on breathing - being aware of our breathing, and doing so calmly. You can meditate in quiet, seated positions, standing, or in yoga poses. Meditations can also involve movement, so there are many ways to meditate, and the most important facet is the mental state that meditation brings.

In the same way it takes time to get good at any skill, meditation takes practice. Author and meditation practitioner Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon says, You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes daily - unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.  It is an ironic quote, but again, as with any skill, we must create the time in our lives to practice it if we wish to get excellent results. Starting with 10 minutes per day and gradually extending numbers of minutes each day is fine for adults new to the practice. Daily meditation practice is beneficial in reducing anxiety, stress, and worry in our lives. It is excellent for both adults and children.

Starting children in a meditation practice puts them on the road to an excellent, healthful way of dealing with stresses and difficulties they encounter while growing up. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports the idea of parents both teaching meditation to and practicing meditation with their children. It suggests teachers add meditation and mindfulness practice to daily school plans.

When introducing meditation to children, it is best to start gradually with basic breathing and relation techniques. Toddlers should start with only a few minutes a day. Young children (ages 4 to 7) may start with 10 minutes, and older children (ages 8 to 12) may start with 15 to 20 minutes a day. I explain specific meditation techniques for children in later chapters to detail how this process should work.

Parents lead by example. Parents must prepare to take the time to learn the techniques and pass them along to their children. Here is a meditation technique we can try right now!

An example of a basic meditation pose is sitting quietly and still in a comfortable chair or seat in a calm, quiet area. Turn your attention to breathing. Minimize factors that may become distractions. Turn off your phone and television. Focus the mind on breathing slowly and evenly, in a natural way - not forced. Notice the rhythm of the breath. Know that the mind will wander, and it is okay for it to do so. If the mind becomes distracted by a thought, acknowledge the idea, and then allow it to go, and then return your attention to breathing again. Similarly, if there are sounds or body sensations that are distracting, simply acknowledge them, allow them to go, and return your attention to the breathing. After 10 minutes, stop and slowly open your eyes. Ask the following questions: How do I feel? What thoughts arose when I was meditating? Are my thoughts less cluttered? Was I sleepy? What else did I experience?

Over time, you will notice how this experience evolves. While meditating with your child, you will note their progress as well.

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a form of meditation. When you meditate, you become immersed in the present, fully focused on what you are doing at that moment, with purpose. When you are mindful in the present moment, you accept body sensations and thoughts calmly and without judgment. In the conscious meditation technique described above, you are only observant of feelings and ideas in a way that identifies them, and then we let them go. The technique brings us back to experiencing the present moment. To be mindful is to become aware of existing in the present and of being accepting of how one feels without judgment, whether the feeling is good or bad.

In times of stress, this technique is valuable for determining triggers for mood or feeling, good or bad. We