Teaching Your Kids to Meditate Easily

Summary

July 14, 2023, 17 min

Simple ways for parents to introduce children to meditation without pressure: modelling daily practice, AMOL breathing and the Ha breath, Hakalau with a dot on the wall, Sitting Very Still, the cute kitten meditation and OM Japa into bad feelings, using small rewards and reverse psychology. Closes with a friend's family practice resurfacing as a kundalini awakening.

In this video

Teaches

Teaching kids to meditateAMOLHakalauSitting Very Still (SVS)Cute Baby MeditationOM Japa in the Chakras

Discusses

HRV ResonancePositive reinforcementLeft and right brainKundalini

Mentions

Ha breathLeft amygdalaThree underlying processesDorsal Vagal ComplexRight hippocampusPattern interruptKriya TherapyNadi ShodhanaKhechari mudra

Key moments

00:00A parent asks: how can I teach meditation to my kid?00:56Forcing kids breeds rebellion; let them watch you meditate 02:23Start with resonant breathing and AMOL 03:08How HRV resonance balances sympathetic and parasympathetic 04:09The Ha breath, gummy-bear bribes, then nasal breathing 05:40Hakalau: a dot on the wall and fingers at the edges 07:16Hakalau at school for learning and tests 08:46Ice cream rewards and reverse psychology 09:58Sitting very still for thirty seconds, then a minute 10:56Cute kitten meditation and the left amygdala 11:39Three processes covered; gazing at the sky and ocean 12:52OM Japa into a bad feeling until it's gone 14:49From outer rewards to inner ones; a friend's kundalini story