Bibliograph

How to teach meditation to children, help kids deal with shyness and anxiety and be more focused, creative and self-confident, David Fontana & Ingrid Slack

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Label

How to teach meditation to children, help kids deal with shyness and anxiety and be more focused, creative and self-confident, David Fontana & Ingrid Slack

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to teach meditation to children

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

970029635

Responsibility statement

David Fontana & Ingrid Slack

Sub title

help kids deal with shyness and anxiety and be more focused, creative and self-confident

Summary

This is a new edition of the classic guide to teaching meditation to children one of the first and still one of the best in terms of clarity, practicality and usability. Avoiding religious terminology, it's aimed at both parents and teachers and explains the varying techniques for working with children in different age groups (from 5 upward), offering a wide range of easy-to-follow and effective exercises. The book explains the benefits of meditation for children, from relieving shyness, anxiety and tension to reducing hyperactivity, aggression and impatience. Meditation has also proved helpful when treating asthma, insomnia and depression, and in improving concentration, establishing emotional balance and enhancing imagination and creativity. In fact, meditation is one of the best tools we can offer children to help them cope with the intensity of their feelings and ease the pressures in their lives among family, with friends and at school. It gives even very young children power over their thinking and emotions through enhanced self-understanding and is incredibly valuable in helping adolescents to navigate the emotional peaks and valleys of the transition from childhood to adulthood. The edition will be given a new foreword by a prominent child psychologist, and a design that highlights the exercises and makes the text even easier to navigate

Table Of Contents

Why meditation? -- Why meditation with children? -- Meditation for mindfulness -- Meditation for concentration -- Meditation and the emotions -- Meditation for relaxation -- Meditation for body awareness -- Meditation for creativity -- Meditation for imagination -- Finding a peaceful place -- Meditation for moral and spiritual growth

Target audience

adult

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