Spiritual Work with Children

Contents:

Preface
Why Children Are Different?
The Basic Principles of Teaching Psychic Self-Regulation to Children and Adolescents
Basic Hygiene Tips
Introductory Meditation
Basic Relaxation Exercises
Psychophysical Exercises
Experience of Work with Psychic Self-Regulation in Groups of Children and Parents in the City of Brno (Czechoslovakia)
Classes in Psychical Self-Regulation and Painting with Children
Psychic Self-Regulation for Children of 11-13 Years of Age
About the Methodology of Teaching Martial Arts to Children
The New Testament and Spiritual Work with Children
Development of Creativity in Children (Experience of the Club Harmony)
Aesthetical Means of Psychic Self-Regulation for Children
Psychic Self-Regulation in the Work of School Teachers
Killing-Free Nutrition and Children
My Mistakes in Raising My Son
Mistakes Can Be Corrected
Two Revelations
What Our Children Dream About?
Bibliography

Vladimir Antonov

Basic Hygiene Tips

From the most general hygienic recommendations we can suggest (for all ages!) the following:

1. To wash, whenever possible, the entire body daily with soap, best of all in the morning.

2. It is better to wake up early and go to bed early.

3. To avoid wearing clothes of synthetic fabric that have immediate contact with the skin.

4. It is very good to irradiate the skin of the entire body with sunlight: it gives us health. In winter one can sunbathe regularly under the light of a quartz lamp, especially in the case of indispositions, in particular, colds.

5. To use "killed" food as little as possible or to exclude it at all [12]: this can improve the health significantly and provide a higher sensitivity to subtle manifestations of the world around, and in the eyes of the God, Who gave us the precept “you shall not kill!”. However, no coercion can be used in this issue toward children: any coercion in such matters leads only to the opposite effect. The best way of educating children is to do it by our own example.