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♡ We can help our children by teaching them mindfulness & the energy of tenderness ♡ Thích Nhất Hạnh

3,436 views · Published 7 August 2016 · 11:51 · Indexed 3 October 2026

Channel: Global Well-Being · 2016 · Education

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May we all be happy. May we all be well. May we all be safe. May we all live in peace & harmony with each other, ourselves, the earth and all that lives throughout time and space. Love & Respect, Richard ♡

“A good practitioner should know how to practice mindful deep breathing with our abdomen when there is a strong emotion… But we do not wait until we have a strong emotion in order to begin learning, or you will forget. That is why we have to begin practice right now - and if we practice two weeks, three weeks, every time 5 or 7 minutes, then you will be used to the practice of mindful deep breathing.  And next time a strong emotion comes you will certainly remember to practice.  And after we have survive and emotion we have confidence in this. We tell ourselves that next time when the strong emotion comes we will do just that.  And we can help our children to do it too. You can hold the hand of your little boy or little girl and say ‘darling, let us breathe together. Breathing in I notice that my abdomen is rising, breathing out it is falling’. And you show your mindfulness to the child. You teach him, you teach her to breathe deeply and stop the thinking and pay attention only to the rise and fall of the abdomen.  And your child will learn. And when he has a strong emotion he will know how to do… I think parents should know how to practice that and to transmit the practice to the children. I also believe that school teachers know the practice and transmit the practice to students in their class.  Because the young people in our time they suffer a lot from fear, anger, despair.  And the young people when they suffer too much they commit suicide. And that is why we should be able to help them by mastering the techniques of practice.”  ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

About Mindfulness Meditation :

Mindfulness is a modern movement, appropriated from ancient Buddhist roots. The practice of mindfulness involves being aware moment-to-moment, of one’s subjective conscious experience from a first-person perspective. When practicing mindfulness, one becomes aware of one’s "stream of consciousness". The skill of mindfulness can be gradually developed using meditational practices that are described in detail in the Buddhist tradition. The Five-Aggregate Model, an ancient link between mind and body, is a helpful theoretical resource that could guide mindfulness interventions. The term "mindfulness" is derived from the Pali-term sati which is an essential element of Buddhist practice, including vipassana, satipatthana, and anapanasati.Mindfulness is also an attribute of consciousness long believed to promote well-being. Large population-based research studies have indicated that the idea of mindfulness is strongly correlated with well-being and perceived health. Studies have also shown that rumination and worry contribute to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and that mindfulness-based interventions are effective in the reduction of both rumination and worry.

Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace.
His key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment—the only way to truly develop peace, both in one’s self and in the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh has published over 100 titles on meditation, mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism, as well as poems, children’s stories, and commentaries on ancient Buddhist texts. He has sold over three million books in America alone, some of the best-known include Being Peace, Peace Is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness, The Art of Power, True Love and Anger.

Thich Nhat Hanh has been a pioneer in bringing Buddhism to the West, founding six monasteries and dozens of practice centers in America and Europe, as well as over 1,000 local mindfulness practice communities, known as ‘sanghas’.

He has built a thriving community of over 600 monks and nuns worldwide, who, together with his tens of thousands of lay students, apply his teachings on mindfulness, peace-making and community-building in schools, workplaces, businesses – and even prisons – throughout the world.

 Learn more about Thích Nhất Hạnh at the following sites:

Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation: Planting Seeds of Compassion

http://www.thichnhathanhfoundation.org/?gclid=COKYluK9rc4CFUE2gQodqa0GqQ

Plum Village: Mindfulness Practice Centre

http://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/

Thích Nhất Hạnh: Twitter

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Thích Nhất Hạnh: Facebook

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Thích Nhất Hạnh: Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Thich-Nhat-Hanh/e/B000AP5YRY

"I will cultivate openness, non-discrimination, and non-attachment to views in order to transform violence, fanaticism, and dogmatism in myself and in the world." 

- Excerpt from a  Thích

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