Calm kids – Lorraine E. Murray

Calm kids is a practical and inspiring book by Lorraine Murray to show parents, teachers and youth workers how to help children relax with mindful activities and how to lead fun and peaceful meditation sessions with children.

Adults can explore the basic principle of stopping for a moment and helping children to focus on the ‘here and now’, encouraging children to experience their physical senses or breath, or be guided on a peaceful journey using visual imagery, letting go of inner tension.

Stress and behavioural disorders are common in children, who are increasingly bombarded by marketing campaigns, exposed to the news, faced with school and peer pressure, and able to sense the stress of adults around them. But how can we help children to recognise and cope with these pressures? Mindfulness and meditation can help them to become aware of bad feelings and release them gently, equipping children with simple tools to deal with tension and stress throughout their lives.

The author explains a variety of different approaches, from meditations around daily activities for busy families, to ideas for group ‘quietness’ sessions in schools. She provides fun, tactile rhymes for toddlers to help them calm down before bedtime, and suggests ways to help teenagers reduce anxiety. She goes on to explain how these methods can help children with ADHD and those on the autistic spectrum, giving a range of case studies.

This book is suitable for complete beginners, or those with some experience of relaxation and meditation techniques. It offers all the advice needed to lead sessions with children, whilst encouraging the reader to adapt and develop their own ways of helping children to feel calmer, happier and more peaceful.

Calm kids is published by BookSource / Floris Books.

Contents:

1 paperback book

About Lorraine Murray

Lorraine E. Murray is Managing Director of holistic health company Feel Good Therapies. Since 2003 she has taught meditation and relaxation methods to all ages and levels, and has worked with Maggie’s centres for cancer, numerous primary and secondary schools, commercial corporations and individual families.

Her passion is to help children strengthen their self-esteem through meditation and mindfulness, and to empower adults to help them.