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MEDITATION GAMES
(learn about meditation)
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Spiritual Hopscotch
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Play hopscotch using words or one and two footed yoga postures instead of numbers.
Label your squares with different numbers, and solve math problems while you hop around the matrix. |
UnScrabbled
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Turn your Scrabble® board into a source of personal inspiration. |
Peaced Together
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Make a puzzle representing a pleasing situation in your life that has separate pieces. |
Magic Muck
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Use a mixture of cornstarch and water to explore how you move through life. |
Yes, It IS
Rocket Science!
| | Make a baking soda and vinegar rocket to launch your dreams. |
A Good Deal Happier
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| Make your own set of cards, using your own suits (spades=golf balls), then use them to play a relaxing game of solitaire.
Make your own tarot, oracle or fortune telling cards. |
Checkered Background
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| Turn your picnic into a meditation game by writing words on your checkered tablecloth while you eat.
Make your own chess board and pieces using shapes that have symbolic meaning for you. Paint an inspiring word in each square. |
Some Assembly Required
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Make a Rube Goldberg machine®.
Meditatively build a tower out of marshmallows, paper cups, or saltine crackers.
Build a popsicle stick bridge, or build something interesting and functional from Legos™, Lincoln Logs™ or Tinker Toys™. |
Child's Play
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| Buy and use children's toys to brighten your mood, then give them away.
Short of cash? Spend your lunch hour playing in a toy store. |
Let Your Joy
Take Flight
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| Go fly a kite that has inspiration words as its tail, or use one to decorate a wall. |
Your Body
as a Canvas
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Body paint yourself, your child, your lover, or a friend.
Cover your friend with a sheet and use spray bottles of colored water.
Make your own healing clothing -- use an oversize T-shirt, and paint the colors of the chakras on it. |
Rock For All Ages
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| Use a painted rock to playfully remind you to do your daily gratitude ritual. |
Juggling Your Joy
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| Juggle what you want into to your life by teaching yourself how to juggle.
Make your own juggling bean bags by painting words and pictures on them. |
Blow Away
Your Troubles
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| Blow soap bubbles in a meditative way. |
Wishy Fishy
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| Go fishing for your "daily catch" of good thoughts using foil fish in colored water. |
Strokes of Luck
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| Turn your favorite ball game or sport into a meditation, including tennis, racquetball, handball, foul shots, croquet and batting practice. |
Dr. Joy is available to present playful workshops (playshops) and seminars at your business, corporate training retreat, non profit organization gathering, or club membership meetings. She is located in Denver, Colorado, and travels throughout the US to deliver Serious Fun ™ Programs for personal growth, healthy lifestyle, wellness, and inspiration. Please see the program pages for details and contact information.
This playful meditation activity is COPYRIGHTED. If you are a professional trainer, coach, human resources person, counselor, or therapist it is not ethical nor legal for you to use it or share it with your clients or those you supervise/train as part of your job. See the copyright notice on the front page of this e-book. Remember, character is what you do when no one is looking. Please do the right thing and pay me appropriately to use these materials professionally, even if you work for a school, church, non-profit or the government. |
