Category: Wellness

Center Yourself & Your Child – Staying Mentally Healthy

February 8, 2021
Mother and children meditating for mind mental health

Staying connected, upbeat, and cheerful can be challenging. While trying to have a healthy mind includes making plans for:  

  • mental health
  • mindfulness
  • stress management

Our kids feel our stress.

A few planned minutes of time together can go along way enliven moods and strengthen your connections. Here are a few ideas:

1. Yoga

2. Breathing Exercises – yes, breathing can help keep us mentally healthy

breathing exercises for kids and families for wellness

3. Meditation

family meditating for wellness and mental healthy

4. Reiki – a unique idea for a healthy mind

reike for kids, mindfullness, reduce stress, mental health

Tomatis can add structure to your life while working on your child’s needs. Whether for wellness or special needs, we are offering special pricing during these trying times for our Tomatis Listening Programs.

Contact us to discuss your needs and how Tomatis mind might benefit your staying mentally healthy.

Music For Now

January 16, 2021

Tomatis Helps Relieve Emotional Stress

mother and child listening to tomatis in headphones for emotional wellness

The emotional toll of our responsibility to keep our children safe while trying to maintain a life, weigh heavily upon us whether they are typically developing or special needs children.

The difficulty to maintain balance between structure, education and fun for the development of our children has resulted in unprecedented levels of sadness & anxiety in our kids and ourselves. We are here to help you center and find a more peaceful place.

We know the ultimate solution is still several months away.

Most of us turn to music, as a key to assist our mood. The music we seek when we want to be energized changes when we want to relax. Music you choose to listen to varies when you exercise, clean house, work or study. When we want to sleep, you’re probably not going to turn on hard rock. Those emotion based decisions are not accidental. They’re a consequence of the qualities of the individual pieces of music.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could listen to music that’s been specifically designed to have those positive emotional impacts at this time? With the Tomatis Method, I have the precise skills to control the elements of the music to assist people in gaining the balance they’re seeking. It’s possible for individuals and families to train together. It can also be a wonderful bonding experience for parents and children.

If you have questions, feel free to send an email or contact me here at Listen for Change.

Indoor Ideas to Stimulate Emotional Development

September 10, 2020

Pull Out Your Imagination and Let’s Have Fun

activity ideas for kids emotional development

Children’s emotional development thrives in the presence of other children. During these times, contact with other children is reduced. Parents often feel choices must be made between physical safety and their children’s wellbeing. We certainly have tools available to us to foster our children’s progress.

  • Decorate your own puppets and put on shows- paper bags and socks work well
  • Act out a book
  • Be a super hero
  • Create a Lego village
  • Write a story
  • Draw illustrations of anything (a family picnic, time with grandma, fun at the park, etc.)
  • Play with other children strategically (playing with families who’s habits you feel are safe- see our article on Social Pods
  • Save a huge cardboard box and use a wide variety of media to create a dwelling or vehicle
  • Make a tent village out of chairs, blankets, and pillows. Read, play or dine inside.
  • Make positive or inspirational outdoor signs thanking community helpers
  • Make Witch’s Brew- combine all kinds of drinks. It may not taste good, but kids think it’s hysterical to get others to try.
  • Dress up in costumes and makeup and talk about who your child wants to be.

Restricting our out-of-the-house activities provides a unique opportunity to drive your child’s emotional development in new ways.

Here’s another way to be proactive during your indoor time; our Tomatis home program can push your child ahead in so many ways. Group programs are also now available.

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