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Dharma Lessons & Daily Practice
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Exploring Mindfulness With Children
Mindfulness Game
Here are some activities to share with your children. Play the mindfulness
game. Sit quietly. Have children listen for just a few moments. Have them
name some of the things they can hear. Keep listening. See if they can
be aware of more and more things that we are normally unawareof -- the
sound of the wind in the trees, a bird chirping. This game can be repeated
with sight, touch, smell.
Mindfulness Walk
Take a Mindfulness Walk. Walk through a park or take a hike. Walk quietly
and slowly. Try to be aware of the things around you that you would normally
miss: moss growing on a rock, the sound of water moving, the smell of flowers.
Food Connections
At dinner have you children try to name all the people and things that
go into making the food you are having for dinner. Easy to name is the
cow that gives the milk, but what else is involved. The cow eats grains:
earth, sunshine, water help the grains to grow. Microorganism living in
the soil help break down manure used for fertilizer to help the plants
can grow. Farmers plant the grains, milk the cows. Manufacturers make the
milking equipment, the trucks that carry the milk to the bottling facitity.
People working at a factory make plastic bottles that we buy the milk in.
So much is interrelated in just bringing a glass of milk to the table.
These are just a few things to help bring mindfulnessinto family life.
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