Meditation #4 - Same and Different

This is a meditation that involves you focusing your attention (and intention) on your hands and fingers.  We will be using different hand mudras or seals to practice motor control of opposites.  You will hopefully experience how it is easier to control the same movement (finger flexion or finger extension) as compared to opposites or 2 fingers flexed and the others extended. This is a good experiential practice to also consider for our children with emotions. Before the child can control or self-regulate between happy/sad, excited/frustrated, the child needs to show control of the same.  Being able to feel anger without reacting, being able to feel happy without going out of control.  Only when our children can demonstrate regulation of the same emotion can they learn to toggle between the emotions with more regulation. Practicing this within our own bodies, physically and emotionally can be helpful too return to that empathetic stance of feeling uncomfortable and moving through hard things.  We doo this best when we perceive that our environment (internal and external) is safe.