{"id":319,"date":"2012-06-08T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/?p=319"},"modified":"2012-06-08T16:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:29:12","slug":"friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Meditation: Card #31 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms\u2019 Edition), Illustrated by Samantha Bachechi, Creative Medium LTD (C) 2010-2012 Conscious Living Unlimited LLC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously.<\/em><\/p>\n

Meditation Card #31 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Card (Special Moms\u2019 Edition)<\/p>\n

Today I drew the Meditation Card.<\/p>\n

When we think of Meditation we often think of the transcendental, raise-yourself-to \u2013another-level, type of meditation. But that\u2019s just one form of a tool that can really benefit your child. If you can teach your child to meditate, what you will be giving her is the ability to find a still, quiet space that can support her during times of stress, anxiety, emotional challenge, hyperactivity and uncertainty.<\/p>\n

Caidin has been meditating since he was two. Funny, I know, and I wish I had taken pictures of him sitting in a train station deep in meditation. He learned to meditate because it\u2019s something I do regularly. He wanted to \u2018do\u2019 what I was doing. He also does yoga for the same reason. What I notice today though is that he will take just a few minutes to use his meditation tool when he needs to find balance or even reset his emotions.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wonderful tool to teach your child, regardless of how you teach it. Meditation takes on many forms from walking meditation, to sitting crossed legged on the floor, to simply sitting in a chair with your feet acting as a grounding base. In the \u2018For Your Child\u2019 text from The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms\u2019 Edition) I offer two ways to teach your child to meditate. It\u2019s great for parents too\u2026hint, hint!<\/p>\n

For Your Child<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meditation is a helpful tool for your child to have.\u00a0 It teaches children to recognize that the power to address emotions, energy and experiences rests within.\u00a0 You can empower your child by teaching her* how to ground and connect to the earth \u2013 the simple base for meaningful meditation.\u00a0 If your child is young, play a game and ask her to lie down on her back and close her eyes.\u00a0 Ask her to focus on the earth below her and to feel it supporting her, like it\u2019s holding her. If she is experiencing problems, encourage her to let the earth absorb whatever they might be (nightmares, problems with friends, even temper tantrums).\u00a0 If she is older, you can introduce this method. Have her sit in a chair with her feet flat on the floor, have her close her eyes and imagine a beam of light stretching from her tailbone down to the center of the earth. The only other thing to do is to have her imagine an on\/off switch on the side of the beam and flip that switch on with her intention. Encourage her to let any worries, concerns or fears release down the beam of light. In addition to offering a way to manage from the inside out, this form of mediation offers a sense of grounding and balance that for many children helps them feel more in control of their own worlds. Whenever your child is emotionally, energetically or mentally out of balance, encourage her to use meditation as a tool to gain instant stability and enhance her own well-being.<\/p>\n

**A note about The Conscious Living Guide Wisdom Cards (Special Moms\u2019 Edition): There are 42 cards in the deck and a guide book. The guide book includes insight for you which is meant to help you live life more consciously as well as insight for your child, which is meant to help support you in your Conscious Parenting. *Additionally, to avoid the awkwardness of saying he\/she all the time, I have picked one gender to identify in each card. In the ‘Calm Card’ I use the feminine.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2012 Christine Agro<\/p>\n

Have questions about your child or need support? Christine offers\u00a0private readings<\/a>\u00a0as well as on-line support at\u00a0The Consicous Mom’s Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

Christine Agro is a clairvoyant, naturopath, Master Herbalist, conscious mom and author of 50 Ways to Live Life Consciously as well as of The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms\u2019 Edition). Christine is founder of The Conscious Mom\u2019s Guide , a membership site where she helps support you on your own journey of living life consciously and on your journey of being a Conscious parent. You can also join Christine on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>. To contact Christine, invite her to speak or to schedule an appointment with her please\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously. Meditation Card #31 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Card (Special Moms\u2019 Edition) Today I drew the Meditation Card. When we think of Meditation we often…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,28,3,127],"tags":[58,113,131,114,129,9,130,128],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-wisdom","category-insight","category-life-as-a-conscious-mom","category-life-tools-for-children","tag-beliefnet","tag-child-anger-2","tag-child-emotions","tag-child-frustration","tag-child-meditation","tag-christine-agro","tag-meditation-for-children","tag-meditation-for-kids"],"yoast_head":"\nFriday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child - Life As A Conscious Mom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child - Life As A Conscious Mom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously. Meditation Card #31 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Card (Special Moms\u2019 Edition) Today I drew the Meditation Card. When we think of Meditation we often…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Life As A Conscious Mom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-08T14:20:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-06-08T16:29:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/files\/2012\/06\/31-meditation-1-216x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Christine Agro, The Conscious Mom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Friday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child - Life As A Conscious Mom","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Friday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child - Life As A Conscious Mom","og_description":"Friday Wisdom is shared from Christine Agro’s Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Special Moms’ Edition) Each Deck has 42 cards and a booklet that offer insight and guidance for parenting consciously. Meditation Card #31 in The Conscious Living Wisdom Card (Special Moms\u2019 Edition) Today I drew the Meditation Card. When we think of Meditation we often…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/","og_site_name":"Life As A Conscious Mom","article_published_time":"2012-06-08T14:20:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-06-08T16:29:12+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/files\/2012\/06\/31-meditation-1-216x300.jpg"}],"author":"Christine Agro, The Conscious Mom","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/","name":"Friday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child - Life As A Conscious Mom","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/files\/2012\/06\/31-meditation-1-216x300.jpg","datePublished":"2012-06-08T14:20:25+00:00","dateModified":"2012-06-08T16:29:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/#\/schema\/person\/9ab2ad4b6b50dd6754949eada3dd3331"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/files\/2012\/06\/31-meditation-1-216x300.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/files\/2012\/06\/31-meditation-1-216x300.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-wisdom-meditation-for-your-child\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Friday Wisdom: Meditation For Your Child"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/","name":"Life As A Conscious Mom","description":"Parenting, Parenting Advice, Tips For Moms and Lifestyle Advice for Women","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/#\/schema\/person\/9ab2ad4b6b50dd6754949eada3dd3331","name":"Christine Agro, The Conscious Mom","description":"Christine Agro has degrees in Naturopathy and Western Herbs from The School of Natural Medicine and is an internationally recognized Clairvoyant and Spiritual Teacher. Her work focuses on supporting women, families and children in all phases and stages of their lives. She is the author of 50 Ways to Live Life Consciously and the creator of The Conscious Living Wisdom Cards (Standard and Special Moms' Edtions). Using her unique approach, Christine provides clients with a truly holistic overview of their health, wellness, well-being and their life journey. Praised by grateful women, parents, and celebrity clients across the globe for her intuitive and extraordinary gifts as a healer, she has been hailed as \u201cmagical\u201d, \u201ctransformational\u201d and \u201cinspiring.\u201d Christine has been featured in The New York Times and hailed a gift to moms by RealSavvyMoms.com. She has been interviewed on radio shows around the world, quoted in health and consumer magazines and e-zines nationwide and she is the founder of The Conscious Mom\u2019s Guide website. \u2022 Christine enjoys supporting women in all stages and phases of life. \u2022 Christine sees the power of today\u2019s children and seeks to support them in retaining their inner light. \u2022 She believes in living life passionately and purposefully. \u2022 She believes in the body\u2019s natural ability to heal and supporting that ability. \u2022 She believes children are conscious beings who have an unlimited capacity to understand and learn. \u2022 She believes children should be treated with respect and given the support and guidance to help them understand the world they have chosen to live in. \u2022 She believes all relationships offer us insight into what we want to learn and heal this lifetime. \u2022 She believes we all have the power to live a passionate and purposeful life. Using her clairvoyance combined with her background in naturopathic healing, herbs, homeopathy, aromatherapy, nutrition and more Christine offers conscious insight and healing support into areas such as relationships, parenting, pregnancy and spiritual growth. Find out more about Christine Agro, her work and how to schedule a reading at www.christineagro.com and check out The Conscious Mom's Guide at www.theConsciousMomsGuide.net to join a growing group of conscious parents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.theconsciousmomsguide.net"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/author\/cagro\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeasaconsciousmom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}