I have often used visualizing techniques with my kids at school, I've found that with their amazingly vivid imaginations, many take to it like fish to water. Granted, I have worked with kids on either side of a happy medium as well,... theres kids so locked in their own inner world that trying to reach it is often futile and occassionally frustrating although it can be done only by their permission, and so it is with my autistic students (to date, I've only succeeded with 2 students out of 7) and the few that live with domestic abuse. Then you have children with almost no imagination what so ever ... that is frightening to me, these are often the ones that live literally in front of a television, they can recite by rote their favorite cartoon, but they can not create the simpliest skit in their own heads. These ones I can reach by wading through the social and media programing (sometimes I just can not believe what these kids are watching!) ANYways....
A while back I had posted some focusing techniques I devised for my students, they were simple beginner steps meant to be built on. I've now gotten the chance to look at them again from a new perspective yet again ... my own child. My kid is a wonderfully creative and imaginative individual, she really blows me away somedays... and many that meet her. They tend to wander away with a bemused expression after any real length in her company, lol Well (I do ramble, don't I?) a week ago last saturday, kidlet and I attended an open ritual ... we watched. The whole time she sat hip to hip with me and observed everything... She was fine when she was sitting with me, but says she felt dizzy and tired when she moved away. She said that she felt funny when everyone finished and thought she was going to be sick... at my touch she was cool and clammy with a fine sweat sheen and a pale face. She headed straight to the washroom, when I checked on her she was holding her head saying she was going to be sick, but insisted that wasn't her stomach it was her whole "inside body" She said she felt like she was sweating inside. I wanted to get her outside asap, for obvious reasons. I had not even considered an adverse effect because I have always done ritual here at home and openly, with the exception of my Samhain work or when I know I am going to be working with a lot of energy or the veil ... then I make arrangements for her to be off the premises altogether. I've always know she's a sensitive but failed to consider her exposure to even a low energy ritual or any energy other then mine. Lesson learned.
Does anyone else have children affected by energies or other similar experiences? I've already explained to her that she has to work with me on a few things first before I let her get involved and that we would probably watch another one (after the basics) just to satisfy my own concerns first.
Which brings me back to the original topic, lol... Meditation for kids. She has started with some basics, like the tree visualization and grounding, the sun shield (a variation of my sun-heart focusing technique) She has taken to it remarkably well, and I'm curious to see how far she will advance into meditation on her own and with my help. We discussed what she was doing last night and watching her face as she recounted what was happening inside her was really interesting. She has now discovered a whole new world, lol literally. I gave her a guided meditation last night as she slipped away to sleep..." the wooded path to your secret place of strength and yada yada..." you know the one. Well this morning when she woke up, she was smiling and incredibly cheerful (almost frighteningly so by my standards, lol) and told me she felt better then ever before, although she didn't know why, lol So I'm thinking that this is going to be well worth observing and exploring with her, who knows what I too will learn in the process, hmm?
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...She's getting a fasttrack education in magick at a very young age and I'll bet she'll grow to be an advanced practioner at a comparably young age. --L.B.
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