Release and Let Go. What do these words mean? What do we release?
What do we let go of? How can releasing and letting go make us feel better and more confident about who we are?
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Imagine your Mind and Heart, the places where you keep your thoughts and feelings, are a bucket. We fill this bucket with what we think and what we feel. When our bucket is filled with good things like love, friendship, kindness and joy, this makes us feel really good. When we fill our buckets with not so good things like fear, anger or worry, this makes us feel unhappy. So in order to make room in our buckets for good thoughts and feelings, we need to release and let go of thoughts and feelings that make us feel bad.
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Releasing and letting go is like emptying our bucket of thoughts and feelings that make us unhappy. One thing we may want to release is feeling scared to do something. We want to let go of that fear so we can have fun trying new things. And because trying new things helps us grow, it's important to feel confidence and not feel scared.
If we practice filling our buckets with good things, then the thoughts and feelings that make us unhappy will be easily pushed out of the bucket. But sometimes these thoughts and feelings can be stubborn and they won’t go away. So we have to be intentional about choosing what we want to release and let go. When we decide to make a change and choose what we want to let go, we can use many different practices to help us discover and release these thoughts and feelings.
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BLOWING BUBBLES MEDITATION |
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PREPARATION:
You will need bubble solution and a bubble wand, a comfortable place to sit outside, or protection from droplets if inside, and a few worries to blow away.
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PROCESS:
- Sit comfortably and take a few deep breaths
- Ask yourself, “What do I need to let go or release?”
- Sit in silence. Let thoughts and feelings rise into your awareness.
- Inhale deeply, pull the worries from your mind & heart, filling your lungs & your belly.
- Exhale your worries gently into a bubble wand
- Letting your worries fill the bubbles, release from the wand & blow away into the air.
- Watch your worries pop or fade away into nothingness
- Take a deep breath and fill the empty spaces left by your worries with Love and Joy
- Repeat the process, letting worries rise and blow away
- Once you are completely filled with Love and Joy, begin Inhaling these happy feelings, filling your bubbles with them and sending out Love and Joy into the world
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“The more I release, the more Good I can experience.”
CSL Visioning Team
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Blow Your Worries Away!!
MATERIALS:
OR pieces of lightweight paper
A large piece of paper
Stick glue or white glue
Optional: drawing/painting materials,
other collage materials,
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PROCESS:
- Sit in front of the large paper
- Place a feather or piece of paper in your hands
- Take a moment to breathe and let any worries rise into your mind
- Give your worry to the feather
- Blow your worry away.
- Repeat until you feel no more worries rise in you.
- Use the glue and paste the feathers to the paper where they landed.
- Since your worries are now gone, treat each feather as a seed and plant within it good thoughts and good feelings.
- Add positive words or an affirmation onto your big paper. If you used paper instead of feathers, you can write positive words on each piece before pasting.
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Make your collage your own by adding fancy paper, gems or spangle
- Place your artwork somewhere you can see it everyone.
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QI GONG PRACTICE FOR KIDS |
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Qi Gong Routine for Kids
with Qi Gong Teacher Lee Holden
In this video, Lee Holden demonstrate the Kangaroo, a shaking and bouncing Qigong movement to helps us shake off stress from our bodies. The Kangaroo is followed by the Cloudy Hands, a practice to help blow away any problems, worries or concerns, helping us come into the moment.
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“I allow myself to feel my feelings
and shake off the ones that limit my good."
Susan Robinson, RScP
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BEAUTIFUL OOPS! By Barney Saltzberg
A spill. A smear. A smudge. A tear. When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!
Beautiful Oops! reminds us that even mistakes can become happy accidents! When we let go of feelings of frustration and replace them with feelings of curiosity and imagination, we transform frustration into FUN!
Fun Fact: Even master artist Leonardo DaVinci practiced transforming water stains on his wall into animals and people by using his imagination!
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SELF-REGULATION PRACTICES
Cookie Monster Practices Self-Regulation
In this video, cookie Monster practices self-regulation by releasing impulses and replacing them with strategies that will help us to relax, shift our attention and practice being kind to others.
Follow this LINK for more information about self-regulating and loads of activities for children of all ages. |
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SHAKE YOUR SILLIES OUT!!
With this song we can practice shaking our sillies out but we can also shake off all those worries and unhappy feelings. What do you want to release by shaking, jumping and stomping it out? You can make up your own words to this fun active song.
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I AM RELEASING AND LETTING GO.
Practice using this affirmation as you spread kindness to yourself and others..
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Send in your artwork, ideas and thoughts about this week’s lesson and it will be added to next week’s newsletter!! I’m looking forward to seeing what you send to share with your Youth Community and families!
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Sending Love!!
Our friend, Lausyn sent us this wonderful work of art from the February's Love & Unity week. He shared the meaning of the colors he used. Red and his name in the center represent Love. The blue and yellow circle is the sky. The green is the grass and the red dots is the Love going out into the world.
Thank you for Sharing, Lausyn!!!
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MONTHLY YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
Sunday, March 28th, 9:00am
This is our monthly online Zoom Program on the Fourth Sunday of the Month. We look forward to this opportunity to build on the month’s lesson and to share projects & activities. ALL are invited!! Children will participate in new lessons and activities as well as sharing our weekly activities.
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Meeting ID: 850 8501 9460 Passcode: 261116 |
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Use the links below to revisit the
2021 Youth Newsletters
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