Mindfulness is a powerful practice that can help young people manage their emotions early on and set them up for a life of success. Mindfulness techniques are easy to learn, but they take a lifetime to master; that’s why it’s best to teach teenagers so they can make the best life choices.
Stress Reduction
Teenagers have a lot of stress in their lives; it could be exam stress, lifestyle stress, or something else; unfortunately, these teenagers don’t have the skills and coping mechanisms needed to handle their stress and live contentedly. But mindfulness is simple and effective.
Mindfulness is easy to learn, and it’s also easy to teach, but the benefits are immediate, and the skills last a lifetime. Start with mindfulness of breathing. Teach your teenagers to breathe in and breath out and to become aware of the breath. It can be practised anytime and anywhere.
Reduced Impulsivity
Teenagers have a lot of energy and impulsivity; it’s simply the way people are when they are young and haven’t learned to channel their emotions. Mindfulness is one of the best training methods they can learn to manage impulsivity and make better decisions and choose coterie.
Walking meditation is a good way to train someone to reduce their impulsivity because it trains them in mindfulness of actions. During mindfulness training, teenagers become more aware of every step they are taking and learn to manage the impulsivity of their actions when needed.
Better Self Awareness
Being a teenager is a journey of self-awareness and self-discovery. It’s a difficult and formative time, and mindfulness can help. Mindfulness can help teenagers to manage their emotions and to find out more about their true nature and sensibilities. This helps them to form a self-concept.
Mindfulness training starts with breathing exercises, breathing in and breathing out while being aware of breathing. Next, it moves on to mindfulness of body, feelings, and perceptions. During training, teenagers have a chance to practice the skills they can then use in their everyday lives.
Emotional Regulation
Not everyone realizes that mindfulness is an emotion the same are anger, joy, resentment, and excitement; the difference is that mindfulness is a more powerful core emotion than these ones, and when it is raised consciously along with other feelings, it can manage them effectively.
According to Buddhist psychology, there is a storehouse consciousness where all emotions are stored. If you are feeling overwhelmed by anger, that doesn’t mean joy doesn’t exist in the storehouse. Mindfulness is also stored there and can be generated when using mindfulness.
Final Thoughts
It can be challenging to be a teenager, these are formative and stressful years, but we can help our teenagers develop more self-awareness and emotional intelligence using mindfulness. Mindfulness is a human technology, and its benefits are rewarding, so it’s good for teenagers.
Whether you are a parent, a teacher, or a mindfulness practitioner, teach teenagers the power of mindfulness through training sessions or by using mindfulness practices in everyday life. The best place to start with mindfulness practice is breathing, becoming aware of in and out breaths.