Meditation #8 - I Spy (Sensory Edition)

This is not truly a meditation, but rather a way to develop an awareness of our senses. We have 10! In this game, 7 of the senses could be used including: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, proprioception and vestibular.

Have a few items prepared and start the game off with SIGHT, I spy with my little eye....

Then allow you child to take a turn.  Move on to as many senses as you feel are appropriate.  Get creative with essential oils, noises and things to see in the room. But you can also draw a letter on their back (and allow them to do it to you too) or turn then around with their eyes closed and see if they know which direction they are facing.

Building an awareness of what kinds of sensory information can come in through our senses can help our kids (and ourselves) be more curious and open.  And if we notice that our child is not curious, see what you can change about the envionment to pique their curiosity, this is the alerting and orientating activities that our brains do to learn if something is safe or not safe.  So in this game, we are being very intentional about this, helping our child develop the alerting and orienting skills without having to automatically react to things that really are not dangerous or harmful.