Inter-personal mindfulness for children (and adults)

It would be useful to be able to practice mindfulness of other people, and one's relation to other people. Indeed the Satipatthana Sutta urges us to practice "internally", "externally" and "both internally and externally." While the Sutta did not elaborate, ancient and modern commentators often interpret this to mean being mindful of oneself ("internally") and others as well ("externally") (see Analayo, 2004, Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. Windhorse Publications).
Here Tenzin and I go through being mindful of ourselves and the other, for the first three Foundations of Mindfulness (body, feelings and mind as a whole).
For mindfulness of body, we first practice being mindful of the breath: Our breath, the other's breath, then the relation between our and the other's breath. We repeat for mindfulness of posture.
For mindfulness of feelings, we are first mindful of our own feelings (as we attend to the other person), labeling them as 'pleasant', 'unpleasant' or 'neutral'. Then we are mindful of the other's feelings, and finally the relation between our feelings and the other's feelings. The Satipatthana Sutta asks us to further distinguish between feelings which are "unworldly" (or based on our Buddha-nature as I put it to Tenzin, a term he uses) or "worldly" (not based on Buddha-nature but its opposite - Mara-nature, as I put it, which Tenzin also understands); and the Sutta asks us to be aware of the conditions for the arising and passing of the feelings. We touch on these further distinctions.
Finally we are aware of the quality of our minds as a whole: how attentive we are being, how sleepy etc. And again we pay attention to our own mind, the others, and then their relation.
This whole process takes place while being attentive to the other person. (Admittedly Tenzin was slightly more captivated by his image on the computer screen!)
This is the first time we went through the whole process (at least the first three Foundations to some degree); for the past couple of years we had off and on practiced this for 5-10 minutes for just some aspect of the full procedure. Typically I would talk less and Tenzin more; but for the recording I wanted to get a taste of the whole process in 20 minutes.
Clearly there is a lot to cover here: the conditions of arising and passing for all foundations, internally, externally and both internally and externally. For further reading on Satipatthana, Analayo's book is excellent.
Whether what I have done here is what was practiced 2,500 years ago, we can't say. I have tried to follow the Sutta - and this is my offering which others may wish to build on.
This video goes through the four Foundations of Mindfulness using breathing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4xIX...
Here we practice mindfulness of walking both internally and externally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCnbd...

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Inter-personal mindfulness for children (and adults)
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