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Space to Face: A
Smile Visualization
 This
activity guides children in
re-connecting with a smile that is born
in the heart space.
Step One:
Show
children how to connect with their heart
space.
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Close
your eyes.
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Take a
deep breath in through your nose,
slowly, and out through your mouth.
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Put your
attention on your heart space. Feel
the space around the center of your
chest and connect with a feel of
love in that space. Just pay
attention to this space for a couple
of minutes. This is your heart
space. Many feelings flow through
your heart space every day and
sometimes in each moment. See if
you can connect with a feeling of
love in that space right now.
Step Two:
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Now that
you have connected with your heart
space. I want you to feel a smile
there. Imagine that you have a
smile in your heart space.
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Now send
that smile up to your face. Allow
your mouth to gently make a smile.
Feel that it is carrying with it the
energy of your heart space. It is a
very loving smile.
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Open
your eyes and notice how you feel
right now.
Discussion:
Look around
the room and notice the love smile that
all of you have generated. See the
smile that has come from the heart space
and is now on your face. How does it
feel?
Note:
Now that children have been introduced
to their heart space, it is possible to
reconnect to the heart space at varying
moments in order to monitor feelings and
enhance the mind/body awareness
connection for children. Sharing love
from the heart space can be very calming
and relaxing and can generate awareness
of deep feelings of peace within oneself
and others. |
