Meditation and kids

[Autumn]

Hi,
Thank you for sharing! That is quite fascinating!!!! Maybe we should say "AUM" while exhaling.
Do you sit down to meditate, or just do it on the go (so to speak)?

Best of wishes,

Autumn

[shaman]

Yes- AUM should be said while exhaling (after taking a deep breath).

I did sit down to meditate- that way I don't end up multitasking and can concentrate totally on meditation (It sound funny, but at times, its hard to get your mind off other things I did this consistently. Position wise, sometimes when I could not sit, I would lie down and do it- whatever is comfortable.

Doing it on the go may have some disadvantages- one may not be relaxed mentally- I read somewhere about this mom who would hear Mozart while pregnant, she lost her father during her pregnancy, so she was sad, but she continued listening to Mozart thinking it may help her baby- however, after the baby was born, he would start crying on listening to Mozart- this shows that a mom's emotions and mental state at the time she is doing things for her baby prenatally also has a lot of effect.

[Jean Low]

hi trinity papa, many thanks for the sharing, appreciate it very much!!

[vanichezhiyan]

Hi Jean,
As far as i have heard kids do 28 aasanas(yoga postures) and they need not meditate...if meditation is done for the purpose of relaxation,then it means we have too much of pressures going on in our mind,but do babies have so much of thoughts to put them in tension????i dont think so.I feel leaving then as they are is the best thing.In India we dont sk kids atleast upto 7years to meditate.but they do yoga which is also above some 4 or 5years.
May be if we train them to sit for 10 or 15 minutes from a very young age it will be easy for them to continue when they grow up.But it should not turn the opposite also,what if they hate to sit,'cos children hate to sit at one place,they just wanna move around and play.

[KL]

Yes, I don't think babies have so much pressure (if any!) that they NEED to meditate.

They definitely don't NEED to meditate.  The question, however, would be whether learning to meditate would be good for them, and on this, I believe it would be a good habit to foster, especially from young.

Having said that, I too agree that it's very difficult to get them to meditate meaningfully at such young ages, as we all know they have an ultra-short attention span and it's difficult to get them to concentrate and sit still for even 1 minute, let alone more 5 minutes or 15 minutes or more!

So yes, yoga IS the best activity to do with your child at early ages.  What I would suggest would be some very short 'meditation' (if you can even call it that) sessions at the end of these yoga sessions, whether it's chanting a few OM/AUMs, focusing on the breath, or whatever method you prefer.

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