![]() The challenge is, tweens who have been raised on screens aren’t easily coaxed into sitting still and watching their breath. The benefits that meditation and mindfulness may offer kids include increased attention span, better grades in school, relief from trauma, improved mental health, self-awareness and self-regulation. Other options for parents looking to raise mindful children in New York include the Kadampa Meditation Center, the Shambhala Meditation Center of NYC (both in Chelsea, both on Sundays), MNDFL in Greenwich Village and Vajradhara Meditation Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The experiment was a success: I stuck with it, and 40 years later, I am teaching a course for Jewel Heart in Tribeca, where, in a room painted exactly like the traditional monasteries of Tibet, I attempt to get children aged 7 to 12 to sit down on burgundy-colored meditation cushions and focus their minds. I’m not alone in this endeavor. When I was 7 years old, my parents wrote an article about teaching kids to meditate and made me their guinea pig.
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