I am not one to boast about any of the new age movements. However the new guided meditation series for children I believe may be helpful to many troubled kids.

NewAgekids.Com states that "Meditation encourages imagination and creativity, focuses the mind, increases concentration, resolves the issues that cause nightmares, and helps with hyperactivity."
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If this is true then many children can benefit from this area of self help.

They believe that in training the child to meditate it will help the child focus and learn to over come nightmares and tone down the hyperactivity. That many of the children experience.

While this sounds like a terrific idea. It also could be hard to establish in children with hyperactivity. One of the main issues is that the child can not concentrate for long periods of time.
Which to me would indicate that meditation would be very difficult to teach to such a child.

On the brighter side they use music and the sounds of nature to teach the children to concentrate. By learning to focus any child should be able to establish a new set of personal goals. It may be the answer to teaching children to study and to be able to maintain grades for those who have had serious issues in classroom accomplishments.

This is a new field of study and if it can help children to focus and control anger or even benefit studies. It would be a good thing.

Meditation is an area that adults have been using to calm the inner soul and to reach their jonra of peace for many years now. Like yoga and other areas of mind, soul and body training. Many people have found this to help them center on the positive and to release the negativity around them.

If it works for some adults, it may as well work for children too. Anything is worth a try if there can be positive results to come from it.

Meditation for children? What do you think?