Morning Meditation for Kids

This gentle morning meditation for kids helps them start the day focusing on kindness and helpfulness. Mornings set the tone for the entire day, and this short meditation can help your child begin with a sense of peace and purpose.

Meditation has so many wonderful benefits for kids. By adding mindfulness to your child’s bedtime and morning routine you can help give them the tools to start and end their day with peacefulness and positive energy.

This morning meditation is also great for students. Teachers can lead it in the classroom to help students start the day with focus and kindness.

How to Lead a Morning Meditation

Most of our guided meditation scripts are best used at night to help kids relax and fall asleep peacefully. In this one, you’ll read this script together at the start of the day.

You can do it as soon as your child awakens, even when they’re still in bed. Or you might choose to let them get up and stretch and move around first to get fully awake.

While they stretch or do some kid-friendly yoga poses, read through the script once to yourself to get used to it. Then when your child is focused, read this morning meditation script in a calm voice. You can use a little more pep and inflection since it’s morning and you don’t want them to fall back asleep.

As always, follow your child’s cues for the pace. Pause often to make sure your child has time to experience what is described here.

These guided meditation scripts are copyrighted by ShambalaKids and may only be used for in-person or live virtual reading. They may not be recorded for audio /video.

Kids Morning Meditation Script

Settle in and get comfortable. As you really pay attention to this meditation, just let your body relax more and more.

The soothing sound of each word is like a wave of relaxation that enters the top of your head and travels down your entire body. Feel the sensations and how this sense of calm relaxes each and every muscle.

Your neck begins to feel very relaxed. Your jaw is relaxed. Even your eyes and forehead begin to let go of any tension or tightness. Your body now takes a break from all the morning’s activities and knows it can rest and be still for these moments in perfect harmony and peace. 

The rest of your body relaxes now – your shoulders, arms, chest, and now your tummy, hips, and back. Your hands relax and even each finger – one by one. The relaxation now continues its journey down your upper legs, your knees, lower legs, into your ankles, down to your feet and into each and every toe.

Now your body feels completely at ease and like you’re floating on a cloud. It’s so very peaceful and enjoyable. 

As we begin this day, we focus on kindness and choosing to use our words gently – when we speak to ourselves and others. 

We’re going to pay attention to our thoughts and guide them in a way that makes us, and others, feel good. We do this because it actually feels better inside and creates a positive environment and a happy day!

We simply feel better and experience more happiness and goodness when we are kind with our words, thoughts and actions. 

Today we also focus on being helpful to others. Being a team player is important because it makes life happier and so much more fun! When we help others, the other person benefits of course, but we do, too.

Helping others demonstrates kindness in action. Being helpful lets others know they are not alone, and it brightens their day. 

Think back to a time when someone helped you. How did that make you feel? It was a wonderful gift. You can give the same gift today and every day by being kind and helpful to others with words and actions. 

Sometimes, people may not always be nice or helpful — but those are often the ones who need kindness the most. Maybe they haven’t had many examples of love, generosity, or compassion in their life.

By showing them kindness, you have the power to make a difference. Your actions might inspire them to do the same, creating a ripple effect of kindness that spreads far beyond what you can see.

Life has a way of living up… or down to… our expectations. So, let’s focus on today being a good day. Visualize today as happy, peaceful, fun, and worthwhile.

Maybe something you’ve been wishing for or looking forward to will finally happen today! Or maybe life has been exciting or busy enough lately, and you just want a chill day. Either way, see it in your mind’s eye and call it into reality today.

Now, when you’re ready, take in a deep breath and bring your attention back to where you are. 

You’ve done an amazing job relaxing and using your brilliant mind to think about things in new ways. Bring back all of those feelings of goodness and allow that to guide this wonderful day!

More Amazing Meditations for Kids

Even just a few minutes of morning meditation for students can make a difference. Try it daily and see how it brings more calm, kindness, and connection to your child’s mornings.

You can make this a regular practice by setting up a quiet space or maybe a cushion or yoga mat in your child’s space. They might also enjoy their own timer to help keep track of a 5-minute meditation.

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