hey it's Chris and Dylan and in this video we're gonna teach you a very easy
meditation that you can do with your kids or you can do with your parents and
it will help increase empathy as well as connection so stay tuned what's up
everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and first foremost I want to give a big shout out to one of
our new subscribers her name is Katie she's 12 she's interested in improving
her mental health so when she reached out to me um I
wanted to start making more videos like I really really need to make more videos
for kids for parents and all that stuff so what a better time than right now
alright so Katie made a deal with me she said she's gonna start meditating once a
day so I encourage all of you to do the same and it's something that doin and I
do Dylan's been doing it for a while it's been a few years right right right
is it going kind of good yeah cool so one of the reasons why I'm making this
video is because as a society we're very disconnected and one of the issues is
and I'm very optimistic about this but one of the issues is is very hard to
teach old dogs new tricks sorry hard for me to come to adults and
say hey you just start meditating so in this instance like I truly believe you
know that children are our future you know what I'm saying
so I think it's important that we start teaching our kids how to be more
connected in society so when they grow up maybe it's a little bit better than
what we have right now alright so let me let me do a proper introduction for this
handsome young man right next to me all right so go ahead and told me your name
again my name is Dylan also known as Lily from Delhi and dad and how old are
you nine nine years oh okay so Dylan do me a favor drop some
knowledge on these people out there what is mindfulness know to see what's
happening right now so without diving too far into the
neuroscience of this thing empathy is actually a skill that's trained it comes
from a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex which is pretty
undeveloped underdeveloped and children so what we can do is we can actually use
meditations to increase the ability and the skill to
be more empathetic connected and compassionate so this meditation is not
only going to help your child but it's also gonna help you feel a little bit
more connected not only with each other but also with people whether it's at
school or whether it's outward but feel a little bit more connected with just
the people on this beautiful planet we call earth so I first started doing this
meditation with Dylan a while back and it's technically called a
loving-kindness meditation and we started doing it and this is kind of the
proof that it works for example one day my mom was in town and we went out to
eat with her on the strip and we were just walking through a casino going to
the place we were gonna eat and a guy went past in a wheelchair right and
Dylan turned to looked at me he's like that I sent him some loving kindness
thoughts and I'm like whoa snaps like this thing is working so just so you
know like the more you do this the more ingrained it becomes like in our normal
everyday habits we start thinking more about others so a few reasons why this
is so beneficial especially for kids by practicing this meditation somewhat
regularly is going to help your kid deal with difficult children at school it's
gonna help your kid be a little bit more compassionate towards other children you
know none of us want that kid who is known as the kid who doesn't share with
others you know what I mean but it'll also help your child get over a little
bit of their nervousness or even shyness and feel like it's okay to make new
friends with other people that might not even be in their class the reason why
connection is so important is because when we're connected alright someone
else's pain is also our pain but the good news is is that someone else's joy
is also our joy all right so you're ready to get started yep all right
so let's begin feel free to join us alright so we're gonna go ahead and
gently close our eyes to start out by taking a few deep breaths
and just noticing kind of how the body feels right now in this moment so first
what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring to mind someone in our life we love and
care for it dearly so it could be a family member like your mom your dad
sister brother it could be a pet so if you have a dog a cat or a goldfish just
bring this person or this pet to mind and imagine them doing something that
makes them really happy just one of their favorite hobbies so now what we're
going to do is we're gonna repeat some phrases in our head and we're gonna send
them thoughts of loving kindness and as we do this just imagine that they're
instantly receiving these thoughts like they're a text message all right so with
this person or this pet in mind we'll send them these thoughts may you be
happy may you be healthy and may you be loved and just imagine them getting
happier and happier may you be happy may you be healthy may you be loved and now
notice how your body feels when you send these thoughts of loving kindness so now
what we're gonna do bring to mind somebody from your class
not your best friend not someone that you don't get along with but maybe
somebody in your class who you don't talk to very often they're just you know
in your class and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna send them these same
thoughts may you be happy may you be healthy
may you be loved and again just imagine that I'm getting happier as you send
these thoughts may you be happy may you be healthy may you be loved and now
let's let's expand this just a little bit so now let's bring our entire
classroom into mind all right let's imagine that as we send them these
thoughts everybody in the classroom gives these thoughts and feelings of
loving kindness and we'll even include ourself in this may we be happy
may we be healthy may we be loved and each time you send these thoughts just
everybody in your class it's just getting a little bit happier may we be
happy may we be healthy may we be loved now
let's extend it out even further let's imagine the entire school your entire
school we're gonna send them loving-kindness thoughts may we be happy
may we be healthy may we be loved
and just notice how your body feels right now just sending these kind
thoughts may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved and we
can come back to this anytime that we can expand it even further to our
neighborhood to our city to our state to our country we can send these thoughts
everybody in the world may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved and
now let's just take a few moments and bring our attention to our breath and
our body and just notice how we feel in this moment
I will in this meditation by taking a deep breath in and gently opening our
eyes all right I feel good how do you feel great you
feel pretty good all right so let me ask you so when we first started and I asked
you to bring to mind a family member or who did you bring to mind Carson Carson
who's Carson my baby brother okay and you thought of him doing something that
makes them happy what-what does Carson do that makes them happy the only thing
that I could really think of what's him playing with his new play-doh like oh
yeah his little brother has like a pretty sweet sweet kitchen set you know
no no did your mind like sort of bouncing around anywhere we able to keep
it kind of tuned I was able to keep it - all right well I'm sitting here with a
professional meditator folks know but in all seriousness it's completely normal
if your mind starts to wander and stray and like oh I want to get up and go play
video games with my toys things like that very very normal and if that does
happen we just gently bring it back to the meditation okay
but anyways like I said this is something that's so so simple that you
can do and you will gradually see your child just start to grow a little bit
more compassion and a little bit more connection with other people just all
around in their lives you know what I mean so I want you all to do me a favor
leave a comment down below let me know how it went for you but please please
please do us a favor do me a favor do Dylan a favor share this share this with
somebody if you're a kid share it with your friends if you're a parent share it
with your pen offense if you are neither a kid and not a parent just share it on
your Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or whatever because I know you know some
parents out there all right so make sure that you share this video
but again again Dylan don't you have a channel yeah yeah what's that called
Delia dad it's where me and my dad do gaming series and movies Eldin we're
gonna do some move pather Legos and stuff and make sure you
go check out that channel because we're gonna do a whole a whole tour of all of
Dylan's Legos so you don't want to miss that I will link it at the end of this
video ok but tell everybody thank you for watching thanks for watching don't
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