A Grounding Meditation For Children

I always have lots of energy. Sometimes I have to stop myself and concentrate so I can calm down. My mom taught me a way to do this. You can do it too.

First of all, I stand up straight and imagine a glowing white circle that goes all the way around me. This is to protect me. I take a deep breath and I close my eyes. You can pick whatever colors you want to use when you do this. I change the colors I use a lot. My mom taught me to use green, a nice deep grass green.

You start by imagining this green glowing light above your head. I like to make it a star. This star moves all over you, starting above your head, shaking energies loose as it goes and picking them up, holding them tight inside its light. It goes down through your head, picking up the thoughts you don’t need. It works its way over your shoulders, down your arms, and into your fingers. As the star picks up more energy you don’t need anymore, it turns darker and darker. Or maybe yours glows brighter and brighter. The star goes down your body, past your heart, around your tummy. It picks up everything from your front and your back all at the same time. It travels down your legs, past your feet and toes, and dives deep deep into the ground. That star sinks into the ground, taking all that extra energy with it, sending it to the earth to help things grow.

Then you take a deep breath while raising your arms over your head and really stretching, up on your toes. At the same time you imagine a bright golden light, like a waterfall of light, coming up from the ground and going up with your arms. As you breathe out, you let your arms drop to your sides, but as they go down the bright light travels with them, spilling the light all over your body and filling you up with light and love and goodness. You do that as many times as you have to, until you feel all full of love and light. I usually do it six or seven times because I like the way it feels. Sometimes I do it more; sometimes I do it less.

Then you imagine your circle of protection fading away, back into the earth. You should feel a lot better and much more centered now.

I also do this when I am feeling sad or angry. It helps me feel better then too.

Written by Evangeline Webber-Vitale
Copyright 2007 Evangeline Webber-Vitale

author: Evangeline Webber-Vitale

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