 Hey it's Chris and Dylan and in this video we're going to teach you a very easy meditation that you can do with your kids or you can do with your parents and it will help increase empathy as well as connection so stay tuned. What's up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and first and foremost I want to give a big shout out to one of our new subscribers her name is Katie she's 12 and she's interested in improving her mental health so when she reached out to me um I wanted to start making more videos like I really really need to make more videos for kids for parents and all that stuff so what a better time than right now all right so Katie made a deal with me she said she's going to start meditating once a day so I encourage all of you to do the same and it's something that uh Dylan and I do Dylan's been doing it for a while it's been a few years right right is it going kind of good yeah all right cool so one of the reasons why I'm making this video is because as a society we're very disconnected and one of the issues is and I'm very optimistic about this but one of the issues is it's very hard to teach old dogs new tricks it's very hard for me to come to adults and say hey you just start meditating so in this instance like I truly believe you know that children our future you know what I'm saying so I think it's important that we start teaching our kids how to be more connected in society so when they grow up maybe it's a little bit better than what we have right now all right so let me let me do a proper introduction for this handsome young man right next to me all right so go go ahead and tell him your name again my name is Dylan also known as dilly from dilly and dad and how old are you nine nine years old wow okay so Dylan do me a favor drop some knowledge on these people out there what is mindfulness notice what's happening right now bam so without diving too far into the neuroscience of this thing empathy is actually a skill that's trained it comes from a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex which is pretty undeveloped underdeveloped in children so what we can do is we can actually use meditations to increase the ability and the skill to be more empathetic connected and compassionate so this meditation is not only going to help your child but it's also going to help you feel a little bit more connected not only with each other but also with people whether it's at school or whether it's at work but feel a little bit more connected with just the people on this beautiful planet we call earth so I first started doing this meditation with Dylan a while back and it's technically called a loving kindness meditation and we started doing it and this is kind of the proof that it works um for example one day my mom was in town and we went out to eat with her on the strip and we were just walking through a casino going to the place we were going to eat and a guy went past in a wheelchair right and Dylan turned to look to me he's like dad I sent him some loving kindness thoughts and I'm like whoa snaps like this thing is working so just so you know like the more you do this the more ingrained it becomes like in our normal everyday habits we start thinking more about others so a few reasons why this is so beneficial especially for kids by practicing this meditation somewhat regularly it's going to help your kid deal with difficult children at school it's going to help your kid be a little bit more compassionate towards other children you know none of us want that kid who is known as the kid who doesn't share with others you know what I mean but it'll also help your child get over a little bit of their nervousness or even shyness and feel like it's okay to make new friends with other people that might not even be in their class the reason why connection is so important is because when we're connected all right someone else's pain is also our pain but the good news is is that someone else's joy is also our joy all right so you ready to get started yep all right so let's begin feel free to join us all right so we're gonna go ahead and gently close our eyes and just start out by taking a few deep breaths and just noticing kind of how the body feels right now in this moment so first what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring to mind someone in our life who we love and care for dearly so it could be a family member like your mom your dad sister or brother it could be a pet so if you have a dog a cat or a goldfish just bring this person or this pet to mind and imagine them doing something that makes them really happy just one of their favorite hobbies so now what we're going to do is we're gonna repeat some phrases in our head and we're gonna send them thoughts of loving kindness and as we do this just imagine that they're instantly receiving these thoughts like they're a text message all right so with this person or this pet in mind we'll send them these thoughts may you be happy may you be healthy may you be loved and just imagine them getting happier and happier may you be happy may you be healthy may you be loved and now notice how your body feels when you send these thoughts of loving kindness so now what we're gonna do bring to mind somebody from your class not your best friend not someone that you don't get along with but maybe somebody in your class who you don't talk to very often they're just you know in your class and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna send them these same thoughts may you be happy may you be healthy may you be loved and again just imagine them getting happier as you send these thoughts may you be happy may you be healthy may you be loved let's let's expand this just a little bit so now let's bring our entire classroom into mind all right let's imagine that as we send them these thoughts everybody in the classroom gets these thoughts and feelings of loving kindness and we'll even include ourselves in this may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved and each time you send these thoughts just everybody in your class it's just getting a little bit happier may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved now let's extend it out even further let's imagine the entire school your entire school we're gonna send them loving kindness thoughts may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved and just notice how your body feels right now just sending these kind thoughts may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved and we can come back to this anytime and we can expand it even further to our neighborhood to our city to our state to our country we can send these thoughts to everybody in the world may we be happy may we be healthy may we be loved now let's just take a few moments and bring our attention to our breath and our body and just notice how we feel in this moment in this meditation by taking a deep breath in and gently opening our eyes I feel good how do you feel great you feel pretty good all right so let me ask you so when we first started and I asked you to bring to mind a family member or a pet who did you bring to mind Carson Carson who's Carson uh my baby brother okay and you thought of him doing something that makes him happy what what does Carson do that makes him happy uh the only thing that I could really think of was him playing with his new play dough like kicking thing oh yeah yeah his his little brother has like a pretty sweet sweet kitchen set you know um but but yeah uh was it hard was it difficult at all no no did your mind like start bouncing around anywhere were you able to keep it kind of tuned in I was able to keep it tuned in all right well I'm sitting here with a professional meditator folks no but in all seriousness um it's completely normal if your mind starts to wander and stray and like oh I want to get up and go play video games or with my toys things like that very very normal and if that does happen we just gently bring it back to the meditation okay um but anyways like I said this is something that's so so simple that you can do and you will gradually see your child just start to grow a little bit more compassion and a little bit more connection with other people just all around in their lives you know what I mean so I want you all to do me a favor leave a comment down below let me know how I went for you but please please please do us a favor do me a favor do Dylan a favor share this share this with somebody if you're a kid share it with your friends if you're a parent share it with your parent friends if you are neither a kid and not a parent just share it on your Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or whatever because I know you know some parents out there all right so make sure that you share this video but again again Dylan don't you have a channel yeah yeah what's that called Dylan dad it's where me and my dad do gaming theories and movies building we're gonna do some movies we did Black Panther Black Panther right yeah and Legos and stuff and make sure you go check out that channel because we're gonna do a whole a whole tour of all of Dylan's Legos so you don't want to miss that I will link it at the end of this video okay but tell everybody thank you for watching thanks for watching don't forget like and subscribe to both channels and if you do subscribe don't forget to hit that notification bell that was pretty good that was pretty good all right but yeah make sure you subscribe and you can click or tap on one of those thumbnails right there if you want to check out some more videos all right we'll see you next time bye