Mindfulness activity presented by the italian team for the Erasmus + KA2: Happy people will change the world

1. LITTLE STONES (Pebbles) MEDITATION
Sitting cross-legged in a circle, one child is chosen as a “bell
master”. Every child has got 4 little stones, previously prepared.
Our back must be straight but, at the meantime soft and flexible;
our eyes can be closed or half-opened and we look down.
Let’s listen to the three bell rings that start the meditation, keeping
breathing with mindfulness.

2. The little stones are on the ground, on our left.
Let’s take one of the stones and look at it: the first little stone is
the symbol of a flower; it shows you its freshness and the nature of
flower which is inside you. Put the flower on your left hand palm
and then lean the left hand on the right one always palm up, so to
start your meditation about your flower nature.
Breathing in, I feel myself as a flower
Breathing out, I feel fresh
You are a flower in the garden of humanity
Look at yourself as a flower: SMILING is very useful during the
practice as a flower always smiles!
Practice three times “flower/freshness” while breathing in/out
Now take the little stone and put it down on your right.

3. Now take the second little stone and look at it.
This stone is the symbol of a mountain: the mountain isthe symbol
of solidity.You are yourself, you are stable. If you aren’t stable, you
can’t be really happy as you will be influenced by provocations,
anger, fear, remorse or anxiety.
After having put the second stone on your left hand palm and lean
your left hand on the right one, palmup, start your meditation
about the mountain.
Breathing in, I feel as a mountain
Breathing out, I feel stable
Repeat “mountain/solid” three times while breathing in/out
You can take the little stone and put it down on your right.

4. Now take the third little stone and put it on your left hand
palmwhich will join the right hand palm on your lap: the third
stone is the symbol of calm water.
Sometimes it happens to see a little lake or a pond: its water is so
calm that can mirror the blue sky, the white clouds, the mountains.
In the same way, when your mind is calm, it reflects things as they
really are and you look at them in the correct way. On the contrary,
if your mind is troubled by strong wishes, anger, jealousy (or
envy/invidia),you look at things in a wrong way. Wrong feelings
cause a lot of anger, fear, violence and make us doing and saying
“bad things”.
This practice helps you to recover calm and peace, represented by
the calm water!
Breathing in, I feel as calm water
Breathing out, I reflect things as they are
Repeat water/reflect three times, while breathing in/out

5. Now you can put the stone down, on your right.
The fourth little stone is the symbol of space and freedom: if you
don’t have enough space in your heart, you hardly could be happy!
Everyone needs his/her own space. If you love somebody, one of
the best thing you can give him/her, is space.
Breathing in, I feel as space
Breathing out, I feel free
Repeat “space/free” three times while breathing in/out.
The little stone meditation is over. Let’s listen again to the three
bell rings, then we’ll stand up to thank each other for practicing
together.