Loving Kindness Meditation for Children

Peace Out Podcast

Chanel Tsang

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode for parents, caregivers, and educators, Chanel shares her favourite mindfulness meditation practice called Mettā Meditation, or Loving Kindness Meditation. This is a practice that comes from Buddhism and its intention is to cultivate an attitude of benevolence and goodwill towards ourself and others, by repeating short phrases, like: “may you be happy” and “may you be healthy.”

Loving Kindness Song

I hope you're happy

And healthy

Always be safe

Live with ease

(To the tune of "Frère Jacques")

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References:

Fredrickson, B. L., Cohn, M. A., Coffey, K. A., Pek, J., & Finkel, S. M. (2008). Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95(5), 1045–1062. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013262

Siegel, D. (2015). Part II: Your brain. Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. S.: Penguin Random House.

Young, S. (2016). What is mindfulness? A contemplative perspective. In K. A. Schonert-Reichl & R. W. Roeser (Eds.), Mindfulness in behavioral health. Handbook of mindfulness in education: Integrating theory and research into practice (p. 29–45). Springer Publishing.

All episodes are written, narrated, and produced by Chanel Tsang.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to a bonus episode of Peace Out.
0:29.8	Season 5 writing has begun, and I'm going to be incorporating all my
0:35.0	learnings from my yoga teacher training and mindfulness meditation courses
0:39.7	into Peace Out to make it better for you and your family. Keep in touch by
0:45.3	subscribing on Apple podcasts or your favorite podcast app so you don't miss
0:49.7	us when we come back and subscribe to our monthly newsletter for updates and
0:54.4	events. And speaking of the mindfulness meditation course, here's a
0:59.4	presentation that I did about loving kindness meditation written for
1:03.7	parents, caregivers, and educators. Hope you enjoy it.
1:10.2	Children are naturally mindful. They live in the present, and this is most
1:16.1	evident when we see them playing and having fun. They're focused giving a
1:21.6	hundred percent of their attention to building that tower or coloring or
1:26.4	simply enjoying the feeling of running outside and maybe even inside too.
1:32.8	During these moments, we can see that they're not worried about what's going to
1:37.8	happen tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday. They are present. We
1:44.2	can support them by encouraging an intentional practice so that they can carry
1:49.3	this mindful awareness throughout their entire lives. One of my favorite
1:54.5	mindfulness meditation practices is called meta meditation or loving kindness
2:00.3	meditation. This is a practice that comes from Buddhism and its intention is to
2:06.0	cultivate an attitude of benevolence and goodwill towards ourself and others
2:11.2	by repeating short phrases like may you be happy and may you be healthy.
2:17.4	Practicing loving kindness meditation helps us in many ways. In one study,
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