{"id":2143,"date":"2013-03-18T06:57:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:28:37","slug":"mindful-tip-a-graveyard-stroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/mindful-tip-a-graveyard-stroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindful Tip: A Graveyard Stroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_6066\"<\/a>If you’re looking for a quiet, enjoyable time to connect with your children, take a walk through a graveyard. Graveyards are often in beautiful park like settings–quiet, with no traffic and provide interesting historical information to activate your imaginations.<\/p>\n

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Children, like adults, instinctively slow down in a graveyard. Though, you’ll most likely need to remind your youngest and most boisterous, not to actually walk on the gravestones and to be respectful as the stones represent someone who once lived, like you and I.<\/p>\n

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Recently, I took a few of my children (and niece) to walk amongst the graves in a most beautiful mountain top graveyard in Nelson, BC. It is hard to tell that the graveyard is actually on a mountain top as there are many even taller\u00a0mountains surrounding it–but believe me, it is (we climbed vertical roads to get up there). As it was on a mountain top, and it was a late, almost-early spring afternoon–we felt the cool mountain air!<\/dd>\n
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As we approached the graveyard, I discovered that my youngest two were excited because they thought they were going find some zombies to try and awaken–I had to rein them in on those ideas.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Explore the graveyard and take time to wander the paths and read some of the oldest gravestones. Every grave tells a life story and it is interesting to speculate, with your children, on the lives of some of the deceased.<\/p>\n

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As the children and I\u00a0read the gravestones, our minds filled with questions and stories. Who were these people? How did they live and die?<\/p>\n

Despite the chilly temperatures, our greatest yearning was to simply sit in the graveyard, in late afternoon sun, soaking up the landscape; giving our minds the space to recreate a time and a place over one hundred years ago when the graves were people, breathing in the smells of the thawing spring grasses like us.<\/p>\n

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The girls found the perfect climbing tree by the graveyard gates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re looking for a quiet, enjoyable time to connect with your children, take a walk through a graveyard. Graveyards are often in beautiful park like settings–quiet, with no traffic and provide interesting historical information to activate your imaginations. Children, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[1475,1474,1120,3114,86,118],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness","tag-connecting-with-children","tag-graveyard-walks","tag-kids","tag-mindfulness","tag-mindfulness-and-children","tag-mindfulness-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t