Meditation Part 2

Sambam is dealing with some pretty significant anxiety at the 7-year-old level. So I’m teaching her how to meditate.

First I guide her through some deep breaths to establish a calm foundation. Then, I have her doing exactly what my therapist has me doing: I’m having her reflect on what she’s feeling emotionally and how it affects her physically, for about 5 minutes.

I don’t know exactly what is going on in that little head of her in those moments of silence, but when the time is up, I ask her how she’s feeling and she says better, so I guess whatever she’s thinking it must be working.

We do this every night before she goes to bed. It makes the bedtime process a hell of a lot easier. But I’ve also told her to practice the breathing through the day when she needs it, but also when she doesn’t, so that she has the tool all sharp and ready to go when she needs it.

We’ll see where this goes. I kind of feel like the blind leading the blind, but if it’s helping, it can’t be too bad.

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