One way to cultivate mindfulness in everyday life is to practice mindfulness of walking. I take my 8 year old son Tenzin through the 16 steps (in four quartets) of the anapana sati sutta (detailed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4xIX... ) i.e. of the Pali description of mindfulness of breathing, but apply the same steps to walking instead of to breathing. For a couple of years I have been practicing these steps either to breathing or walking; or a mixture (for example I may use walking for the first two quartets and breathing for the last two one evening). The timing spent on each step is up to you and can be considerably longer than shown here. When I practice (normally in a cramped space) I walk forwards to the end of the space and then backwards, and do so with my eyes closed (though tat is a personal idiosyncrasy).
Here we practice mindfulness of walking "internally" and "externally", i.e. being mindful of ourselves as well as others:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCnbd...
For compassion meditation for children see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0Kb...
For a lecture I gave on Buddhism to University of Sussex undergraduates see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tAVm...
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