Spinning InwardIf you have ever wished you could show children and teenagers how to enrich their lives with meditation and visualization, this book will delight you. It presents simple exercises in guided imagery designed to help young people ages three through eighteen to relax into learning, focus attention and increase concentration, stimulate creativity, and cultivate inner peace and group harmony. The use of guided imagery has been internationally recognized as an effective method of "whole brain" learning. The author's approach will have special appeal to parents and teachers who are frustrated by an educational system that seems to reward only those children who excel at verbal, linear learning. With the exercises in this book, young people can discover learning styles that are effective and enjoyable for them. These techniques of guided imagery offer adults as well as children a unique way to tap the wealth of creativity and wisdom within. |
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adolescents adult EXERCISE Alan Stivell ally asked Attitudinal Healing brain British Columbia child circle classroom clean clock time equal Close your eyes colors continue to breathe count of six creative Crossroads School draw dreams Education exhalation your body experience eyes and begin eyes and focus fears feeling relaxed felt focus your attention gently healing hear images imagine improve Jean Houston kinesthetic body ladybug learning limbic system listen lives look Mandala Meditation memory mind Mindy minutes of clock Moshe Feldenkrais move neocortex NOTE TO PARENTS notice open your eyes PARENTS AND TEACHERS Pause 1 minute physical body quiet Ray Lynch relaxed and alert remember Sean sense sixth sense skills smell sounds squeeze the muscles suggest taste teach techniques Teenagers tension texture things third-grade told tool Transpersonal Psychology verbal visual wish write