Mindfulness for Children: How to Raise Your Child to Be Grateful, Serene, and Self-Confident With Mindfulness Training and Awareness Exercises - Includes Meditation

By Marieke Buschmann

Mindfulness is currently on everyone's lips, and many people are undergoing a shift away from fast-paced life toward deceleration and awareness. Adults are beginning to meditate and to experience their everyday lives more consciously and to be more mindful of themselves, their bodies and their fellow human beings. That's good. But mindfulness can also be a meaningful lifestyle for children and bring many positive effects for them.

In this book, you will therefore first learn some general information about mindfulness, what it means, where it comes from and what inner attitude is helpful for it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marieke Buschmann
• Release date: Aug 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223546450

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Mindfulness for children

How to raise your child to be grateful, serene, and self-confident with mindfulness training and awareness exercises - includes meditation.

Marieke Buschmann

All advice in this book has been carefully considered and checked. Nevertheless, no guarantee can be given. Any liability of the author or the publisher for any personal injury, property damage or financial loss is therefore excluded.

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Content

What you can expect in this book

Mindfulness - explained in a nutshell

This is what mindfulness means?

That's where she's from?

The 7 pillars of mindfulness

Non-judgment

Patience

Spirit of the beginner

Trust

Nothing-Forcing

Acceptance

Let go

Why mindfulness is so important in children's everyday lives

Dealing with stress in a healthy way

S chulng of concentration and attention

Value-free perception of feelings and thoughts

Self-awareness and self-connectedness

Getting started with mindfulness with children - how?

No right or wrong

Atmosphere of trust and voluntariness

Principle of self-determination

Together mindful

Regularity is the key

Practical implementation possibilities in everyday life and practical examples and exercises

Rituals and routines

Enabling and shaping transitions

Conscious use of the five senses

Eavesdropping concert

I see what you do not see

Touch game

Trick or treat

Smell memory

Sensory walk

Physical exercises

Body parts knock awake

Shake out body parts

Gratitude Practice

Gratitude coloring block

Gratitude treasure chest

Meditation

I breathe ... in, I breathe ... out meditation

Sun Rays Movement Meditation

Mindfulness - a holistic gift

What you can expect in this book

Mindfulness is currently on everyone's lips, and many people are undergoing a shift away from fast-paced life toward deceleration and awareness. Adults are beginning to meditate and to experience their everyday life more consciously and to be more mindful of themselves, their bodies and their fellow human beings. That's good. But mindfulness can also be a meaningful lifestyle for children and bring many positive effects for them.

In this book you will therefore first learn some general information about mindfulness, what it means, where it comes from and what inner attitude is helpful for it.

But the heart of the book is about your child, why mindfulness can be such a valuable tool even for children already, and what it can do to your child's self-image, self-awareness, self-confidence.

But in order to be able to practice mindfulness with your child in a meaningful and effective way, there are some framework conditions and prerequisites that can favor and promote the learning of mindfulness, the performance of mindfulness and concentration exercises, and the perception and conscious experience of your child. For this, you as a parent play an important role that should not be ignored. But also your attitude towards the child, the approach and trust are decisive for whether he or she can develop curiosity and openness for mindfulness and, if necessary, shed fears or prejudices.

In order to get started,