Children who practice meditation are more creative, since they manage to open up to the unconscious mind, which is where the original thoughts are born. Furthermore, by developing their body consciousness, they manage to perceive excessive tension and relax it; they concentrate better on what they do, keeping their interest in a certain task until they finish it; They know each other better and are more aware of its enormous potential than its limitations.
They can appease anxiety, worry, and other emotional states that usually tend to inhibit the expression of your creativity. In fact, experts assure that during meditation sessions the heart rate, blood pressure and stress levels drop, all of which have an impact on a greater or lesser tendency to creativity.
Here are some basic exercises for you to start training your little one in the wonderful art of mind control as soon as possible; they are aimed at developing his cretivity, which is already innate in him because it is the capacity of every human being.
Exercise 1: «The little house»
Objective: to stimulate creativity.
What does it consist of? Ask your child to lie on his back and close his eyes. Invite him to imagine a small house figure drawn in pencil on a large sheet of white paper. There are the door, the windows … Now the house is colorful and has a garden around it, with trees, flowers and a lake. Then the birds arrive, the squirrels running through the grass and climbing the trees. The sun shines and fills the garden with light, and some children go out to play. Make sure that he does not open his eyes during the exercise and at the end of the above description of the landscape, allow him to express what else happens in “the house”.
Exercise 2: «The portrait»
Objective: train your power to visualize.
What does it consist of? Tell him to imagine a picture of his favorite movie or television character, or a friend, or a family member. Remind him that, as “a photo” is, the character cannot move or speak, and guide him to observe each of his eyebrows, eyes, each side of his nose, mouth, cheeks, neck … The simple concentration in a certain image, it will help you from now on to be more observant of the details around you.
Exercise 3: “What does it sound like?”
Objective: to launch your imagination through auditory stimuli.
What does it consist of? Think of five or six sound stimuli, such as the one produced by the stream of water from a faucet, a boiling kettle, a hair dryer, water droplets falling on a plastic bucket, a cellophane bag that rubs, the skin being scratched, blowing to inflate a balloon, etc. Now ask your little one to close his eyes while you reproduce certain noises or sounds. Then encourage him to guess what it is about.