Visiting Feelings

Gold Medal, 2 3 Mom's Choice Awards Silver Medal, 2 4 Nautilus AwardsVisiting Feelings invites children to sense, explore, and befriend any feeling with acceptance and equanimity. Includes a Note to Parents.Do you have a feeling that's visiting today? Can you open your door and invite it to play?Visiting Feelings harnesses a young child amp rsquo s innate capacity to fully experience the present moment. Rather than labeling or defining specific emotions and feelings, Visiting Feelings invites children to sense, explore, and befriend any feeling with acceptance and equanimity. Children can explore their emotions with their senses and gain an understanding of how feelings can lodge in the body, as conveyed by common expressions like amp ldquo a pit in the stomach amp rdquo or amp ldquo lump in the throat. amp rdquo Children can cultivate this emotional intelligence and nurture a sense of mindfulness. In essence, mindfulness is tuning into yourself and paying attention to the present...