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Meditation for Children, removing violence from our thoughts
Meditation in Children Part III
Dealing with child knife crime. Following the increasing acts of violence between young people the Government, Police and Society is seeking tougher laws and sentences.
This appears to be a flawed strategy; removing knives of our streets will not make our streets less violent. The Violence does not exist in the knives or other weapons, but in the very minds of many young people, and sadly not just young people.
As far as our "play station" generation are concerned, many have been conditioned over the past 10 years with acts of violence from media, computer games and graphically violent "entertainment".
In order to deal with violence on the streets, we need to address the violence in our minds. Religion, politics, parenting and education has not reduced violence in our society, but surprisingly increased violence. One of the safest and drug-free method of enabling individuals to realise our out-of-control our minds have become is to introduce practices that help us experience the furious thoughts and associated emotions that we are so gripped by, is mindfulness meditation .
In order to make the world a safer place, meditation such as mindfulness of breath or sound should be introduced into all schools. A pilot study carried out on twenty-five children between the ages of 9-12, published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology in 2008 reported mindfulness meditation for children had the following results:
94% of the children liked or loved the Mindfulness programme
88% of parents rated the Mindfulness programme either "high" or "very high"
82% of parents endorsed the statement that mindfulness was helpful in the school environment.
59% of children and 71% of parents endorsed the statement that mindfulness was helpful in the home environment.
59% of the children would recommend the mindfulness programme to their friends
100% of parents indicated they would recommend the program to the parents of other.
Exercise:
Ref: Lee.j, Semple R J, Rosa D, Miller L, Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for children: Results of a pilot study. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Vol 22, no 1-2008
Stressmanagement.co.uk have a specially developed mindfulness-training-programme for children and young adults. For further information, please contact, dav@panesar.co.uk
© Dav Singh Panesar 2008
© Dav S Panesar 2008 Meditation in Children part III
