Lie on your back and spread out your arms to make sure you are not touching anyone. If you touch someone, move away until you have space to yourself. Now place your arms at your sides and close your eyes.

Take a deep breathe into your whole body.

Take a deep breathe out.

Keep taking strong, slow, deep breaths into your whole body.

Feel your tummy rise up as you breathe in and sink in as you breathe out.

Breathe in the strong Happy feeling of love and quietness.

Breathe out your twitchy feelings.

Breathe in the strong Happy feeling of love and quietness.

Breathe out your unhappy feelings.

Breathe in the strong Happy feeling of love and quietness.

Breathe out tight parts of your body.

You are strong and slow and quiet.

You are happy and calm.

(Pause)

Breathe into your tummy and relax your tummy.

Breathe into your heart and open your heart.

Breathe into your feet and relax your feet.

Breathe into your legs and relax your legs.

Breathe into your back and relax your back.

Breathe into your arms and hands and relax them.

Breathe into your chest and heart and relax and open your chest and heart.

Breathe into your neck and face and relax your neck and face.

Breathe into the top of your head and relax the top of your head.

(Pause)

Feel warm sun on your body.

Hear the delicious trickling of a cool river.

You are a calm, strong, rock in a small river.

The sun is shining and warming your skin. The water is cool and sparkling in the sunlight. Golden leaves are floating past you in the current.

(Pause)

You are calm and strong and happy.

You are breathing in the good stuff and breathing out the bad stuff.

You are warm and steady and the water is cool and full of life.

The river is trickling past you.

(Pause)

The sky is blue and light is shining in the leaves and on the water. You can hear the water.

You see a white bird flying in the sky above you.

(Adult stands up and starts to walk around among the children, with his or her arms outstretched)

Keep your eyes closed so you can continue to see the white bird in the blue sky.

The white bird has wide wings.

The white bird is looking for a still and happy rock to land on.

(Adult chooses the calmest and happiest child, and making her hands into a bird, she swoops her hands down to the child’s face. Gently the adult touches the tips of her thumbs to the child’s ajna door (between the eyes) and moves them softly like bird claws.)

You can feel the breath from the bird’s wings. You feel the bird whooshing down. You stay still and quite while she rests on you.

(Slowly the adult makes her way around the room, making sure to land on each child—but only once they are calm. Then she “flies the bird” back up into the “sky” and, with her arms outstretched, makes her way back to a sitting position.)

The radiant bird flies back into the blue sky. You see her getting smaller and smaller.

Now you hear the sound of the rushing river water get quieter.

Now you hear the sounds outside this room again.

Now you feel your body lying on the floor.

You are a calm, happy, person, lying in the room.

Breathe in the happiness of the Mystery and wiggle your toes gently.

Breathe in the happiness of the Mystery and wiggle your fingers gently.

Breathe in the happiness of the Mystery and scrumple your face up.

Open your eyes.

“The way you seem to be when you wake up is only one of the ways you are.”

Conductivity Meditation

Sit up straight and tall in your meditation asana.

Take a full breath in and a full breath out.

Relax and let your feeling go.

(Pause)

Smile from your heart.

Relax up from the feet to the top of the head.

Breathe in the good stuff and breathe out the bad stuff.

(Pause)

(Repeat if it feels right)

“When you remember to feel the Mystery real strong, then you can also remember to breathe the Mystery. The Mystery is good feeling full of light and happiness and love, isn’t It? So when you breathe the Mystery, remember always to breathe in all the good feeling and breathe out all the bad feeling.

Breathe in all the happy feelings about the Mystery, and breathe out all the unhappy feelings you might be thinking about, like being afraid, or angry, or selfish, or mean, or just unhappy. Stand up and feel to yourself “Breathe in the good stuff—Breathe out the bad stuff” again and again. It is good to do this every now and then every day.”

(Based on instruction Given by Avatar Adi Da Samraj in His book What, Where, When, How Why, and Who to Remember To Be Happy)

Where are You?

Note: it works very well to follow this meditation with an art period. The children can quietly come out of the meditation and draw or paint where they have “been” and/or what it felt like during the meditation.

Children also like to discuss what they saw and how they felt, and this offers a natural way for the guide to discuss how everyone has different experiences but the feeling of the Mystery is the same for all. The feeling of the Mystery is always present and remains the same, and experiences change and pass away. This is why we can feel the happiness of the Mystery any time, no matter what our experiences are in any moment.

Lie on your back and spread out your arms to make sure you are not touching anyone. If you touch someone, move away until you have space to yourself. Now place your arms at your sides and close your eyes.

Take a deep breathe into your whole body.

Take a deep breathe out.

Keep taking strong, slow, deep breaths into your whole body.

Feel your tummy rise up as you breathe in and sink in as you breathe out.

Your breath is a mysterious wind that fills you with a wild feeling of Happiness.

As you breathe out you relax more and more.

Your breath is a mysterious wind that fills you with a wild feeling of Happiness.

(Pause)

Breathe the wild happiness into your tummy.

Breathe the wild happiness into your heart.

Breathe the wild happiness into your feet.

Breathe the wild happiness into your legs.

Breathe the wild happiness into your back.

Breathe the wild happiness into your arms and hands.

Breathe the wild happiness into your chest and heart.

Breathe the wild happiness into your neck and face.

Breathe the wild happiness into your head and the top of your head.

(Pause)

You are in the wild happiness of the Mystery.

Where are you?

Are you flying?

Are you floating?

What can you see?

Where is the wind of your breath coming from?

Where is the wind of your breath taking you?

(Long pause)

You are remembering the feeling of the Mystery.

This wild freedom is your true home.

(Pause)

Now you can move your body gently with the wind of your breath. Stretch your legs and arms gently.

Stay in the calm and relaxed and happy feeling of the Mystery.

Now you can open your eyes and return to the room.

When you feel ready, sit up quietly.