Mental and Spiritual Healing.
Relaxation for Children
Everyone needs to relax to cope with stress of daily
life, even children. Children sometimes do not know the best way
to handle stress that they do not understand. Here are some tips
to help your children calm down...
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Editor:
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Lead your child through a breathing exercise:
- “Let’s practice a different way of
breathing that can help calm our bodies down.
- Put one hand on your stomach, like this [demonstrate].
- Okay, we are going to breathe in through our noses.
When we breathe in, we are going to fill up with a lot of air
and our stomachs are going to stick out like this [demonstrate].
- Then, we will breathe out through our mouths. When
we breathe out, our stomachs are going to suck in and up like
this [demonstrate].
- We are going to breathe in really slowly while
I count to three. I’m also going to count to three
while we breathe out really slowly.
- Let’s try it together. Great job!
Children LOVE games. Even my relatively non spiritual
child is open to creative meditation. Here are a few ideas to make
a game of using breathing exercises:
- Blow bubbles with a wand and dish soap
- Blow bubbles with chewing gum
- Blow paper wads or cotton balls across the table
- Tell a story where the child helps you imitate
a character who is taking deep breaths (i.e., the three little
pigs)
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