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Meditation for Children, helping making our children healthier and safe
Meditation in Children Part I
The latest fatal stabbing of Ben Kinsella in north London early on Sunday (29.6.08) after a night out to celebrate the end of his GCSEs exams brings home the state of child crime in the UK, but more importantly, children’s state-of-mind that enables them to carry out such violence on other children.
Why have children become so violent? Where children as young as 8 feel its necessary to carry knives, or pour petrol on others and set them alit or where crossing the street into someone else’s "territory" can result in being stabbed or even shot.
To start answering this question, it is necessary to consider the children’s states of mind. Just as pilots and drivers are taught how to fly a plane or drive a car through the use of computer-based training, children are being conditioned through the violence they encounter in their computer games and entertainment.
The object of every game is to win, or in other words to get your own way, to overcome obstacles, especially those games where one is taught to kill or destroy the opponents. In addition to this we are being brainwashed by the media promoting that "things" will bring us happiness, every billboard, advertisement, radio, television and internet all scream forth suggestions that if we buy this, own that, taste this, wear that, then we’ll be happy and have status within our social circles.
Children are impressionable and easily lead astray, being subjected to thousands of hours of advertisements, conditioning them into young addicts craving for happiness, through material objects and things and training them to always get their way!
Studies on meditation in children are showing great promise, addressing issues such as violent behaviour, attention deficit disorder, increasing creativity, intelligence and providing a sense of self-worth and esteem. Study published in Thinking Skills and Creativity in 2006 states that teachers report that meditation helps create a happier, healthier and more focused learning environment, while the children showed that practice of meditation reduces stress, promotes relaxation and well-being while developing the skills of concentration and self-control, enhancing emotional intelligence and self-esteem .
(c) Dav S Panesar 2008 Meditation in Children Series part I
