Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

I'm going to be shocking and launch this week's Magic Monday a few minutes early, since I'm here on Dreamwidth,. (The picture is Thomas Taylor, the great Regency-era Platonist and worshiper of the Greek Gods, godfather of the modern Neopagan revival)

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Meditation for kids

[(Anonymous)]

Hello!

At what age do you think we can initiate kids to discursive meditation and how?

Thanks!

Re: Meditation for kids

[ecosophia]

I'd start around the age of seven, and make it fun: begin by choosing themes for them that interest them, and ask them to tell you what they thought about while they were meditating. Especially if you're homeschooling, you can make it a part of the ordinary learning process -- they're reading chapter 3 of such-and-such a book this week, great, have 'em choose seven themes from that chapter, meditate on those, and write out an account of what they got.

One caution, though: don't try to teach your children to meditate unless you meditate daily. There's a spiritual equivalent of Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, in which parents push their kids to do the spiritual work that the parents don't want to do, and in every case I've witnessed, the one consistent result was to give the kids a lifelong aversion to whatever form of spirituality was being pushed on them. Kids are acutely sensitive to hypocrisy; they know when you're shoveling smoke, and back behind those beady little eyes, they're passing judgment.