Awareness: 8 Tips for Kids

Awareness is being in tune with how you feel and your surroundings.

As our definition states, you can practice awareness with yourself and how you are feeling emotionally, such as happy, sad, tired, and peaceful; how your body feels physically, like when you are eating, while you practice yoga, or doing something that makes you happy. And you can practice awareness with what is happening around you. Noticing other people, objects in nature, or things in your school or classroom. When we practice awareness we are slowing down and paying attention to something.


Here are some ways you could practice Awareness:

1. Close your eyes and listen to all the sounds that you hear.

2. Close your ears and hear yourself breathing.

3. If you feel mad, stop and take a few deep breaths.

4. When you are eating, think about where your food came from and how it tastes. Remember to chew slowly.

5. Do something that makes you happy.

6. Pay attention to how your body feels.

7. Do your favorite yoga pose.

8. Practice a YogaBuddies breathing technique.