Rooted in Love Meditation for Kids

This simple meditation helps children feel grounded and connect with the love in their hearts. Kids can understand this heart energy by comparing it to a tree with strong, steady roots. Through gentle imagery and breath work, kids can explore feelings of love, safety, and connection while calming their bodies and minds.

Rooted in Love uses nature-based visualization to guide children in growing inner strength and compassion. As they imagine their heart as the center of a great tree, they’ll experience how love can expand from within and reach others — offering comfort, kindness, and calm to the world around them.

Leading a Heart-Grounding Meditation

Invite your child to get cozy in a quiet space where they can sit comfortably with their feet resting on the ground if possible. Dim the lights or open a window to the sounds of nature (if you have access) to enhance the experience.

Read through the script first to get a sense of the flow and pacing. Then, as you guide the meditation, speak slowly and gently, leaving pauses for your child to imagine and feel. If your child enjoys nature, you might remind them of a time they sat under a tree or walked barefoot in the grass to help them visualize the roots and branches more clearly.

This meditation can be especially soothing before bed, after a busy day, or anytime your child needs to feel calm and connected. If they fall asleep during the meditation, that’s wonderful! You can return to it any time you want to nurture more peace and love from the inside out.

Rooted in Love Meditation

When we think of love, we might experience a warm feeling in our heart. But love is also like a tree. It starts with strong roots deep inside you — roots made of kindness, calm, and connection.

The more you care for these roots, the more your love grows and spreads, like wide, welcoming branches that reach out to others.

In this meditation, we’ll explore how to feel grounded in love and how to let it flow from your heart into the world.

Get comfortable right where you are. Place your feet flat on the ground, and take a deep breath in… hold it… and exhale fully.

Feel your feet connected to the earth. Imagine invisible roots gently growing from the soles of your feet, down into the ground. These roots anchor you, steady and strong, helping you feel safe and supported.

Now breathe in peace and stillness. Let it flow through your body like fresh water through those roots — nourishing, calm, and cool.

Exhale slowly, letting go of any stress, worries, or thoughts from the day. Just like wind blowing through the leaves of a tree, let those thoughts drift away. Right now, we are focusing on calm in our bodies and minds.

Take another deep breath and imagine harmony and light moving through your entire body — from the crown of your head down to your toes. See that light shining in every cell, every muscle, and every bone. Let yourself relax and feel held in this gentle, glowing stillness.

Now imagine your heart as the center of a great tree. In this space, there’s abundant love, peace, and joy. This quiet place within you is always there — your inner forest of calm.

You can visit this space any time, just by focusing on it. Even when the world outside feels noisy or overwhelming, your heart is your home… rooted in love.

Now, let’s focus on that love.

Love is a deep feeling of care and connection. You can feel love in the softness of a hug, the warmth of someone’s smile, the gentleness of a kind word.

Think of something or someone you love deeply — maybe a pet, a person, a favorite place in nature. Picture that love like sunlight shining in your chest, helping your heart grow bigger and brighter.

Now imagine that love spreading through your body, like branches stretching out from your heart. Let it flow out into your arms, your legs, your face, your fingertips. Your whole body is filled with the warmth of love.

Let the love grow even bigger. Imagine your tree of love reaching outward, its branches expanding into the room around you, wrapping it in light and kindness.

Now feel the love flowing even farther — reaching out through your town, your state, your country. It’s like a forest of trees connected through roots underground, sharing this energy of peace and care.

Love is like the flame of a candle, or the seed of a tree. The more you share it, the more it grows. When we give love, it lights up the world.

You have the power to nurture love every day — just by focusing on it as you’re doing now.

Take in another deep breath. Now exhale slowly.

When you feel ready, gently wiggle your fingers and toes, and open your eyes.

You are grounded. You are glowing. You are rooted in love.

As you breathe in again and exhale gently, open your eyes and see the more loving world you are helping to create.   

After the Guided Meditation

If your child is awake when you finish, they may want to share how they felt. As you continue to practice mindfulness meditations and techniques like a body scan meditation, your child will learn to make observations and connections to how emotions make their bodies feel.  

If your child enjoyed this love meditation, there are plenty more in our full library of guided relaxation scripts, adventure imagery, mindfulness exercises, sleep stories, and more.

You can access our full library of 60+ guided meditation scripts along with downloadable PDFs below.