Description
Simple mindfulness practices to help your child (ages 5-12) care for anxiety, give a boost to concentration, and take care of difficult emotions.
Includes a 60-minute audio CD of guided exercises read by Myla Kabat-Zinn.
Mindfulness—the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is—is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to remedy. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children relax, grow to be more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and normally grow to be more patient and aware. The book contains eleven practices that target just these scenarios, in conjunction with short examples and anecdotes all through. Included with purchase is an audio CD with guided meditations, voiced by Myla Kabat-Zinn, who in conjunction with her husband, Jon Kabat-Zinn, popularized mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a therapeutic approach.