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    Bedtime Stories for Kids: 17 Bedtime Meditations to Help Children Fall Asleep Faster, Learn Mindfulness and Breathing Exercises
    Bedtime Stories for Kids: 17 Bedtime Meditations to Help Children Fall Asleep Faster, Learn Mindfulness and Breathing Exercises
    Bedtime Stories for Kids: 17 Bedtime Meditations to Help Children Fall Asleep Faster, Learn Mindfulness and Breathing Exercises
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    Bedtime Stories for Kids: 17 Bedtime Meditations to Help Children Fall Asleep Faster, Learn Mindfulness and Breathing Exercises

    By Luna Eaden

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    Help your child relax and drift into sleep with these delightful bedtime stories!

     

    Does your child have difficulty sleeping? Looking for a soothing compilation of bedtime stories to help them practice mindfulness and unwind at the end of the day? Then keep reading.

     

    Containing a range of fun and engaging bedtime stories, this audiobook uses relaxing music and the voice of the narrator to help your child drift into a deep, rejuvenating sleep. Designed to teach children essential skills such as meditation and mindfulness, these bedtime stories will spur their imagination, boost their creativity, and much more.

     

    Meditation is a powerful skill which has never been more important in today's busy, crowded world. Now your child can practice this vital skill from a young age, helping them cope with our modern world. With a range of stories about both fantastical places and everyday situations, each story contains a key principle of meditation which will help your child sleep better and excel in waking life.

     

    Buy now to help your child sleep better tonight!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLuna Eaden
    Release dateSep 18, 2020
    ISBN9781393909194
    Bedtime Stories for Kids: 17 Bedtime Meditations to Help Children Fall Asleep Faster, Learn Mindfulness and Breathing Exercises

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      Bedtime Stories for Kids - Luna Eaden

      Story 1: Interactive Bedtime Fable I

      Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s bedtime fable meditation. This meditation will be the first in a series where the purpose is to get you using meditative techniques to calm your mind, and prepare it for sleep. And hopefully, we’ll weave you through a bedtime time as captivating as any other.

      Tonight’s meditation will make use of the mantra, or ohm technique. So, before we begin, let’s just try practicing the ohm for a few moments. 

      Repeat after me: ohm (*sustain for several seconds*)

      You needn’t worry if your ohm does not sound perfectly in tune with mind. Everyone’s pitch will be slightly different, and part of the fun of practicing this together is hearing all the interesting harmonies that are produced. 

      But that’s for another story. For now, just make sure you’re all settled in bed, and ready to sleep. If at any moment during the meditation you want to change positions, add, or remove blankets, please do so.

      All settled? Alright, let’s begin.

      When Tony was a small boy, he, like you, dear listener, loved bedtime stories. In fact, his mother would read one to him every evening, before he fell asleep.

      However, one night, shortly after Tony began attending a public elementary school, he discovered he couldn’t sleep. He had a big soccer game the following afternoon, and knew he needed his rest if he was going to have any chance at playing his best, and helping his team win. But it was strange—every other night that he could remember, his mother’s stories would put him fast asleep. But the night that he needed it most, sleep was nowhere to be found.

      Several hours had passed since the sound of his mother’s voice had echoed through his room. He’d heard her footsteps walk away from his door, her bedroom door close. And now he could hear the wind outside his window pushing the branches of trees into the side of the house, and still he could not find sleep.

      Finally, he decided to get out of bed and go down the hall to his mother’s room. There was a strange pang in his chest when he thought of rapping his knuckles against her door to awaken her. But when he walked down the dark hallway to the door, he could see the yellow glow of a light seeping out from beneath her door.

      As he approached, the door to his mother’s bedroom creaked open, and she stepped out into the hall.

      I thought tonight would be the night, she said.

      The night what? Tony said.

      The night I would have to teach you about the river.

      She led Tony back to his bedroom and let him nestle back down into bed. When he had the blankets pulled back over his chin, his mother took his hand in hers.

      "I’d like you to close your eyes, Tony, and see the river. See how it flows, how the blue currents never stop moving, only continue further and further down the river.

      I want you to breathe with the river. When you exhale, feel how the air moves from your lungs in the same way the water flows forward effortlessly.

      Tony breathed in deep, just like you can now. He let his stomach expand with the air, and then pushed the air outward, exhaling. He was starting to see how his breathe was like the river, he thought.

      His mother sat back in her chair beside his bed. This is the river that we are all connected to, she said. "This is the river that flows through all life, that pushes us forward into the future, and that will flow constantly around us.

      "I want you to know, Tony, that at any point in your life, when you feel stuck, when you’re having a bad day, when you just cannot get past one thing: that the river will go on, and go forward, and that whatever it is you’re stuck on will pass.

      The river will flow past it, and onto the next moment, the next day, the next setting. Your breath is the connection to this river, for your breath too is constantly moving forward, constantly pulling in air, and pushing it out, and moving us into the future.

      Tony let his mother’s words sink in. He tried to imagine how it was that even if he could not find sleep that night, there would come tomorrow, and with it, another opportunity to do so.

      Just as the river moves all around us, his mother said, we can find a way to anchor ourselves within it.

      What’s that? Tony said.

      It’s called a mantra. A mantra is a collection of sounds that have no inherent meaning. This makes it different than our everyday language.

      How’s that? Tony said. His thoughts moved about within his mind like cars on a freeway, and he wondered how any of this was supposed to help him sleep.

      Think about it, his mother said. If I said the word ‘dog’, what comes to mind?

      Tony almost didn’t have time to think about it. The image of a dog appeared in his head almost as soon as she asked the question.

      Now what if I said ‘fire truck’. Would you see a fire truck?

      Yes, Tony said. I think so.

      So a mantra is different than the words we use to communicate to one another everyday because a mantra will not make us think of anything other than the sound it is producing.

      Tony’s eyes flitted towards his bookshelf, to the wooden rows where his books had lived for years. And inside each one, thousands, and thousands of words. How could there be a sound that didn’t mean anything?

      Let’s just try it, his mother said. Here, repeat after me: ohm. Her voice carried the sound for a few moments, before falling away.

      Come one, she said again, smiling. ohm

      This time, Tony joined in, and began humming the sound. He could hear the way his voice mingled with his mother’s. Like the sound they were producing was so close in pitch, their voices were trying to tune themselves to one another.

      This will be your way of anchoring yourself amidst the river, his mother said. And reminding yourself that the river exists, and flows continually forward, always.

      As Tony lay in bed, he replayed the drone silently to himself, in his mind. He liked the way the sound seemed to take hold of the center of his mind, like a glowing lantern, pushing the dark, negative thoughts away.

      When he awoke the next day, Tony pulled back the curtains from his window. The sky was clear, and blue, and the sun was throwing itself down onto the earth in all its warmth and glory. He’d slept in, he thought. But no matter. The river moves forward, always, and tonight will come another opportunity to fall to sleep a little earlier. 

      Story 2: Bedtime Meditative Fable II

      Good evening, and welcome to tonight’s bedtime fable meditation. This meditation will be the second in a series where the purpose is to get you using meditative techniques to calm your mind, and prepare it for sleep. And hopefully, we’ll weave you through a bedtime story as captivating as any other.

      Tonight’s meditation will make use of the mantra, or ohm technique. So, before we begin, let’s just try practicing the ohm for a few moments. 

      Repeat after me: ohm (*sustain for several seconds*)

      You needn’t worry if your ohm does not sound perfectly in tune with mine. Everyone’s pitch will be slightly different, and part of the fun of practicing this together is hearing all the interesting harmonies that are produced. 

      But that’s for another story. For now, just make sure you’re all settled in bed, and ready to sleep. If at any moment during the meditation you want to change positions, add, or remove blankets, please do so.

      All settled? Alright, let’s begin.

      The night Janelle was born the wind was blowing so hard that a windmill on the small island town she was to grow up in broke.

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