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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 ; foreword by Amber Hatch

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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How to teach meditation to children

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David Fontana & Ingrid Slack ; foreword by Amber Hatch

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

This 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

pt. 1 Meditation and Children -- 1. Why Meditation? -- 2. Why Meditation with Children? -- pt. 2 The Practice of Meditating with Children -- 3. Meditation for Mindfulness -- 4. Meditation for Concentration -- 5. Meditation and the Emotions -- 6. Meditation for Relaxation -- 7. Meditation for Body Awareness -- 8. Meditation for Creativity -- 9. Meditation for Imagination -- 10. Finding a Peaceful Place -- 11. Meditation for Moral and Spiritual Growth -- pt. 3 The Practicalities of Teaching Meditation -- 12. The Practicalities of Meditation with Children -- 13. Beginning Meditation with Five-to Eight-Year-Olds -- 14. Beginning Meditation with Nine-to Twelve-Year-Olds -- 15. Beginning Meditation with Thirteen-to Eighteen-Year-Olds

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