Ask Deepak: Teaching Children Meditation

October 27, 2008

Question:

At what age would you suggest can children/teenagers be introduced to meditation?

Answer:

There’s no hard and fast rule on this. What’s most important is to make them aware of the value of meditation through your example and then look for their receptiveness. Some children may be ready for meditation as early as eight or ten years of age. Other kids even growing up in homes where both parents meditate, may not feel drawn to meditating themselves until they are in their late teens.

It’s   important that they don’t feel pressured to meditate because the parents want them to. When they are motivated to start from their own curiosity and desire that is the best indication they are ready, and that is the best indicator for them to continue on in their practice as well. 

Love,

Deepak

  1. Laura Dawson Says:

    For me, I remember that my own experiences have been given to me to share which can be better than a third party recounting of how this occurred for someone else. Often I would want to be apart from what was happening in our large family setting, at school, and with friends, because it all seemed to be too overpowering. At about eight years of age, I began to look for a ’secret place’ where I was really alone to talk to a higher source that unconditionally cared for me and my concerns. So as my own children began to need that ’secret place’ we began to take ‘mind walks’ in a place in each of our own imagination with our eyes closed. I would lead a visualization experience and then leave my children to their own meetings with the Source they found there, and after a short time, would verbally come to pick them up and gently bring them back together to our home. They may still be doing this practice, I am.

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