Meditation is one of the best tools we can offer children to help them cope with the intensity of their feelings and ease the pressures in their lives - among family, with friends and at school. It gives even very young children power over their thinking and emotions through enhanced self-understanding and is perhaps even more valuable in helping adolescents to navigate the emotional peaks and valleys of the transition from childhood to adulthood. This book explains the varying techniques for working with children in different age groups (from five to eighteen) and shows how the benefits of meditation can help in a range of ways: from relieving shyness, anxiety and tension to reducing hyperactivity, aggression and impatience. Meditation has also proved helpful when treating asthma, insomnia and depression, and in improving concentration, establishing emotional balance and enhancing imagination and creativity.

 

There are 120 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Watkins Media .

David Fontana, a professor and a fellow of the British Psychological Society, has studied and taught meditation for over 25 years. He has written many highly regarded books on child psychology, dreams, meditation, and psychological counselling. Ingrid Slack is teacher of young children, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a chartered counselling psychologist, and a workshop leader. David Fontana, who contributes a 20-page Background for Parents, is a world authority on meditating with children, as well as psychology generally. His many books have been translated into more than twenty languages. The stories themselves have been written by leading storytellers, including Joyce Dunbar, a bestselling children's author in both the UK and the USA.