Healthy Work at Home Tips For Homeschooling Families

Meditation is an interesting topic for this blog. The power of meditation for yourself, your children and your business can be quite amazing. As someone who has experienced that power from years of daily meditation I can highly recommend it for busy parents and their children.

Bringing children into meditation and allowing it to become something that they treasure and value can begin in a number of ways. There of course are families where the children have experience with meditating since newborn days…families where they rested nearby while their parents did their practice. These children may see a meditation practice as something normally done, like dinner or brushing teeth. Children who have not had this experience might love to start doing a type of family meditation.

Spending time with your children developing what your family meditation practice looks like, is a beneficial and also creative process. Your practice can be a simple as sitting together once a day and breathing, to a more elaborate ritual of chanting, breathing, prayers and blessings. If you as the parent have had no prior meditation experience, you will find it helpful to first read some books or listen to some meditation tapes. An author like Jon Kabat-Zinn is very accessible and easy to read. Once you have created a family meditation practice, the move to children meditating on their own as they mature, will be a natural one.

From the standpoint of a homeschooling parent working at home, meditation can be a lifeline. Ours is a busy day. Knowing that at some point in that day everything will become quiet, the focus will turn inward and we will have a moment to reconnect with our inner-self, can be all we need to push through the math problems or return that difficult client’s phone call. Meditation created space. A daily practice creates a space with no expectations and no demands. The breath continues inward and outward regardless. No matter what your day has wrought or what it’s about to bring, meditating allows you to spend time in this one moment. Doing so can allow you to re-enter with more patience, more motivation and more focus. That is truly a gift. A gift for yourself, your children and your business.

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