These games, together with some screen-free time in the lead up to sleep are a great way for children to develop healthy bedtime habits. Some, like Flower or Alto’s Adventure, create calm with simple repetition of tasks and process in a world where the sun slowly sets. Others, like Frost or Lifelike, offer gentle, tranquil interactions to still the mind and escape the world. Some of them are ideal to play right before sleeping and even let you turn off the screen to listen along when you are finished interacting. These are playful ways to calm the brain, ease anxiety and generally get little heads ready to rest. It creates mindfulness experiences for children to “enjoy calmer day times and quicker bedtimes”. We have worked with Moshi Sleep on this list of games and apps that are a great way to help children wind down as they transition to night time. While these offer a wide range of benefits, it can be good to transition to something less energetic as the day draws to a close. It offers a chance to pause, take in the action and the world as you pan the camera, frame an image or adjust the depth of field.įinally there are games like Animal Crossing, Conan Exiles, that don't offer specific meditation but let you sit on benches, stare out to see, or watch the sun rise.Ĭhildren love to play exuberant and exciting video games with their friends. There are also games that offer Photo modes that don't specifically depict the feature as meditation. Spiritfarer is similar, you have to find a snake named Summer and complete their quests to be invited to meditate with them. Or there are hidden moments of meditation in games like Uncharted The Lost Legacy where Chloe will work through her Yoga poses on top of a tower. In The Witcher 3 you can stop and meditate to restore your health and pass time. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla you can use meditation to see the sun to quickly shift across the sky. Stopping in Death Stranding or Ghost of Tsushima means you can simply sit and relax. Then there is Sky Children of the Light where you need to go to special locations to meditate.Įven violent or desolate games can offer powerful moments of stillness. Then there is Journey that allow us to sit when we stop moving or Flower that encourages us to slow our pace with scenes of where we have just been.
Games like Kena depict the breath slowing and draw attention to the sights and sounds of the natural world. This can be a specific meditate option, like in Sable, or the ability to get your character to sit and listen when you stop moving, this is a powerful way to get a taste of how meditation in real life can help us come back to ourselves and in so doing, rediscover the world around us. The games in this are those that include the chance to get your character to actually stop and meditate themselves. We have other lists of games that players use to gain a sense of calm or meditative state. However, some games create space for us to pause the action, sit, and take in the environments they have created.
They invite us to continually engage and interact with the worlds they create. They invite us onto a ride that takes us to all sorts of places.
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