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Meditation
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In part 2 of his interview, DR GARY HUBER continues to share his thoughts with VICTOR KANNAN on the effects of meditation on health and well-being.
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Do you recommend meditation for children?
Yes, and I think it’s important that as adults we realize that children are very smart and they can inculcate a lot of things if we just speak to them. We can’t always treat them like babies. We can talk to them about food, and they’ll understand. We can talk to them about meditation and mindfulness, and they will understand. They get it because they have a better idea, a better concept of it than we do.
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Interesting!
When they are coloring, or during quiet playtime, they are not distracted, they are not multitasking, so they’re at meditation from a very young age. I taught my kids to meditate when they were about 9 or 10 years of age, and I would have taught them earlier had I known about it. But I really wasn’t aware of it. It starts with a conversation. You keep talking about it, and it seems very natural because it is very natural.
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I think it’s important for kids, especially in this day and age with the iPhone just celebrating its 10-year anniversary. They’re immersed in this whole concept that 24 hours a day digital images have to be coming at their brains and they literally have to dodge all of this incoming information. How are they going to do that? This is deletion mode. Go back hundreds of years, what did Da Vinci do? To learn something new, he had to get on a horse, ride to a new town and hope to meet someone smart or find a book he hadn’t seen before. He had to go out and seek information. Now it’s being thrown at them at such an incredible pace that if we don’t teach our kids how to meditate and how to quiet their brains and be calm, the influx of all that digital information is going to crush them. That’s my concern.
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Do you think that the current age that we live in adds to diseases such as ADD and ADHD?
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