Mindfulness meditation,

Sparkling children’s stories

Mindfulness meditation, fun children’s story books

This is an online resource for children, teachers, parents and caregivers looking for original illustrated children’s stories on meditation, mindfulness, awareness, various aspects of Buddhism, and music.

View  Louise reading her published books, What’s In Your Mind Today?, What’s In Your Heart Today?
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About Louise Bladen

Louise Bladen is a children’s author and musician. Her first two books on mindfulness and meditation for children, What’s In Your Mind Today? and What’s In Your Heart Today?, are now selling all over the world.

 

Louise is a classical pianist as well as teacher of piano and classroom music. As a young student, when she used to practise 6-8 hours of piano everyday she noticed that the necessary mental focus gave her relief from other general emotional stress. Years later she discovered that a similar but more profound state of peace and calm could b e cultivated through meditation and mindfulness and swapped her piano stool for a meditation cushion. 

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    During her extensive experience in teaching primary classroom music, she realised that there is a great need for children to learn some tools to help them de-stress and better cope with busy lives. Beginning with the simple practice of breathing, Louise introduced some meditation activities into her classes.


    To her surprise, she discovered that children are quite capable of looking into their minds and in fact really enjoy the process of cultivating a calm, peaceful space within.  


    This wish to simply convey the great ancient tool of mindfulness and her great love of children’s picture books resulted in What’s In Your Mind Today? and What’s In Your Heart Today?


    Experienced in teaching meditation to adults, Louise has also found that some of her adult friends use these books as a starting point to learn basic meditation technique. 


    The advantages of meditation are well documented scientifically and experientially and it is a wonderful antidote to screen overexposure.  


    When Louise isn’t sitting on her meditation cushion looking at her mind, or teaching piano, she loves painting in acrylics and watercolours, cycling, watching musicals and walking her four-legged canine friends, Maggie the Hairy and Harry the Smooth, accompanied by her two-legged husband John.