How Do We Help Children To Self-Soothe? This is a very important life skill and one of the 7 attributes of emotional intelligence. We live in a very chaotic world where we and our children are exposed every day to outrageous acts of meanness and lack of compassion. This causes anxiety and creates a fear based reality for all of us. If we teach our children the skill of mindfulness and the ability to self-soothe, we can reduce the ever-growing need for medication, comfort food, additive routines, and technology escape routes.
What can you do to help your children survive this chaos and maintain a feeling of emotional well-being and feeling internally safe? It is really quite simple. Brain research tells us today that our minds can shift from a feeling of anxiety and frustration to calm and grace. It only takes 6 seconds for our minds to make that shift. https://www.6seconds.org/Â
You and your children can practice this every day! Just call it the 6 seconds affirmation tune-up. Pick out an affirmation, such as, “I am Lovable,” and repeat it for 6 seconds. Take some deep breaths in here too. Have your children watch this video on YouTube. It will teach them this simple and yet powerful skill and an easy way to remember. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFccjt0Kk_k&t=46s
Start this today and watch how your children learn to calm themselves down wherever they are and whatever they are doing. Let’s wake up those feelings of goodness today!