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30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing 1

Volume 1

Julie T Lusk, ed

Relaxation and visualization can heal the body, mind, and spirit. Lusk has gathered these exercises from physicians, psychologists, therapists, and educators who have developed and fine-tuned each script. People just beginning to use imagery and visualization will find here the help they need to get started - a wide variety of scripts on a broad range of themes, plus helpful information on how to use guided imagery. Experienced leaders will find new ideas that will expand their repertoire and renew their creativity.
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15x23cm

178 pages

$60.00

30 Scripts For Relaxation, Imagery & Inner Healing 2

Volume 2

Julie T Lusk ed

Volume 2 offers a wide variety of guided meditations to help people relax deeply, lose weight, quite smoking, connect with nature, manage physical pain, and converse with their inner, personal guide. The scripts were developed by experts in the field of guided imagery. Editor, Julie Lusk, provides clear instructions for group leaders and therapists.

22x16cm

175 pages

$60.00

5-Minute Meditator

How to relax your body and mind rapidly whenever you want to

Eric Harrison

Based on the Buddhist tradition this book shows how to calm your body and mind in short bursts throughout the day, and how to relax deeply whenever possible. Learn to "be present", to be more sensual and just "do what you are doing". Once your know how, you can relax 50% in just two or three minutes, and stay relaxed therafter while you walk, eat, work, shop, wait, or do exercise or housework.

16x23cm

169 pages

$27.00

Arriving at Your Own Door

9781401303617

Jon Kabat Zin

In the bestseller "Coming to Our Senses," internationally renowned author and meditation teacher Kabat-Zinn made clearer than ever the connection between mindfulness and spiritual well-being. Now he offers this beautifully illustrated collection of 108 verses excerpted from that acclaimed work.

14x14cm

160 pages

$22.00

Cool Cats, Calm Kids

Relaxation and Stress Management for Young People

Mary Williams

Today's children are stressed. They need learning tools that are fun, informative and memorable to help them ope. Cool Cats, Calm Kids is a practical yet humorous guide to stress management for children ages 7-12.

13x20cm

32 pages

$16.00

Creative Visualization Workbook

Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life

Shakti Gawain

Designed to accompany the book Creative Visualization, this workbook offers powerful, effective techniques presented in an easy-to-use manner. The workbook contains special notebook sections for you to work on each of the following areas of your life: relationships, work and career, prosperity, lifestyle and possessions, health and beauty, leisure and travel, among others.

19x23cm

147 pages

$27.95

Daily Relaxer

Relax your body, calm your mind & refresh your spirit

Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning

Brings together the most effective and popular techniques for learning how to relax. Each relaxer presents a simple, tension-relieving exercise that one can learn in five minutes and practice with positive results right away.

183 pages

$28.00

Earthlight

New Meditations for Children

Maureen Garth

Offering 25 new visualizations, that help children to sleep more peacefully, to learn to still themselves, to be freed of their worries, and to develop their ability to concentrate. The simple but imaginative stories lead children into magical worlds in which they are released from fears, discover peacefulness and stillness, and experience wonder-filled adventures.

22x19cm

136 pages

$19.95

Five Good Minutes

100 morning practices to help you stay calm & focused all day long

Jeffrey Brantley & Wendy Millstine

Are you willing to invest five minutes a day to create focus, presence, and real intention in your life? This little book offers engaging ways you can make simple, effective and lasting changes that will set the tone for a calm, balanced, and more fulfilling day.

15x15cm

235 pages

$30.00

Leave Your Mind Behind

The Everyday Practice of Finding Stillness Amid Rushing Thoughts

Matthew Mckay

This illuminating little book offers readers insight into how our thoughts work (sometimes against us) to shape our perceptions and experiences. It includes fifty fun, engaging activities readers can learn in seconds and practice any time to learn to watch and let go of troubling thoughts.

17x12cm

146 pages

$24.95

Meditating with Children

The Art of Concentration and Centering: A Workbook on New Educational Methods Using Meditation (Revised)

Deborah Rozman

A psychologist and holistic educator shares her proven techniques for teaching the art of concentration and centering to children. Adds balance and self-esteem, improves decision making, and puts children in touch with their deeper core values. Children love these simple, fun techniques that develop concentration, stimulate creativity, balance the mental, emotional, and physical natures, and build self-security. Used by educators nationwide.

26x26cm

153 pages

$32.00

Meditation Capsules

A Mindfulness program for children - with CD

Janet Etty-Leal

Just as space capsules allow for exploration and discovery in outer space, meditation capsules allow for discovery in inner space! Simple strategies for learning to meditate represent self-care capsules that allow individuals to develop and maintain a healthy, happy mind. The recommended dosage is moment by moment day by day.

This manual and the accompanying audio CD of guided meditations provides a practical resource for adults who wish to teach children the skills of mindful meditation. The comprehensive program outlined here is designed for classroom use, ideally with students at upper primary school level. But the lessons can readily be adapted to suit children of all ages, and the book will be a helpful guide for parents, youth leaders, social workers and therapists - anyone who has an interest in teaching meditation or the enthusiasm to help children master meditation as a powerful personal tool.

27x21cm

100 pages

$29.95

Moonbeam

A book of meditations for children

Maureen Garth

Developing "the gentle art of going within", the delightful stories in this and other Maureen Garth books have helped many children to feel secure and sleep peacefully. Readers are invited to go on journeys into an imaginative world of animals, people, and places. Garth shows parents how to use these imaginings with their children, helping them deal with their anxieties, develop their concentration and enhance their creativity.

22x19cm

121 pages

$22.95

New Meditation Handbook

Meditations to make our life happy and meaningful

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

This book teaches us how to make ourselves and others happy. The meditation practces in this book, based on Buddism, are actual methods to control the mind. The 21 meditations in this book are progressive - the first 6 help develop renunciation while the mext 12 help to cultivate compassion and love. The next 2 help to counter and eventually eradicate our misconception of the way things exist and the final one is to gain a deeper understanding of all previous 20 meditations.

13x20cm

215 pages

$19.95

One Who Is Not Busy

Connecting with Work in a Deeply Satisfying Way

Darlene Cohen

Seeks to rejuvenate the weary professional, busy parent, and harried student by offering a path on which to walk away from exhausted frustration toward a holistic approach to time management. A must read for the busy person who rarely seems to have time to relax.

20x14cm

126 pages

$28.00

Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook

Simple, concise, step-by-step directions for mastery of ... 6th ed

Martha Davis and others

Breathing, progressive relaxation, meditation, self hypnosis, visualization, refuting irrational ideas, thought stopping, worry control, coping skills, exercise, nutrition, time management, assertiveness, job stress management and quick relaxers.
Now in its sixth edition, this book, first published in 1980 is an excellent comprehensive workbook with straightforward instructions on every major approach to stress management known.

22x28cm

294 pages

$39.95

Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids

Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Transitions

Lawrence E Shapiro, Robin Sprague & Matthew McKay

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. This book offers more than 50 activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and joy.
You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

25x20cm

144 pages

$32.00

Relaxation for Children

Jenny Rickard

Learning to relax is a valuable life skill that can be taught to children, increasing their ability to cope, improve their self-esteem and respond positively to challenges. This step-by-step program can be easily integrated into the daily classroom curriculum, or used by parents at home.

19x26cm

149 pages

$34.95

Small Souls

Meditations for Children

Roxanne Paynter

This little Australian book has meditations and affirmations for anyone wishing to develop a sense of spirit in their child. Visualisation and relaxation are used to encourage children to focus on positive thought and healing. Their imagination is stimulated by using subjects they can easily relate to. These meditations will bring joy and peace to readers of all ages.

13x20cm

86 pages

$17.95

Starbright

Meditations for Children

Maureen Garth

Another set of stories that help children to feel secure and sleep peacefully. Garth writes that "relaxation and visualization, if taught at an earlier age, could enhance not only children's school work but other areas of their lives." Garth shows parents how to use these imaginings with their children, helping them deal with their anxieties, develop their concentration and enhance their creativity.

22x19cm

105 pages

$21.95

Stress Can Really Get on Your Nerves!

Trevor Romain & Elizabeth Verdick

Skipping school and kicking bricks are NOT good cures for stress. Screaming and yelling won't help either. And forget about being captured by aliens. Stop being a worried wreck and start handling your stress. This book tells middle primary to lower secondary kids how. Look inside to find facts about stress, strange-but-true tales about stress, the world's worst stress relievers (things not to try and why) ways to be a Panic Mechanic and fix your own stress messes, and more ...

13x18cm

96 pages

$15.95

Stress Management for Dummies

Your stress-free guide to stress relief

Allen Elkin

Stomach in knots, not sleeping at night? This friendly "Dummies" guide is packed with quick, easy tips and exercises - from breathing and posture to imagery and meditation - it gives you all the tools you need to reduce your stress level immediately. Discover how to determine your stress level, relieve tension at work and at home, deal with difficult people, combat stress with diet and exercise, tame your anger and worry.

19x23cm

289 pages

$34.95

Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens

Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress

Gina Biegel

First, the bad news: your teenage years are some of the most stressful of your life. Up to 70 percent of teens say they're stressed out, and with pressure about grades at school, parents who just don't seem to get it, and friends who drive you crazy, it's no wonder. Here's the good news! If you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you'll have the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings that life sends your way in high school and beyond.
The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of thirty-seven simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way to be aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. You can use mindfulness when you start to feel as though things are spinning out of control, so you can stop worrying about what might happen and focus instead on what's happening now. Ready to get started? Open this workbook and try out the first activity. Soon, you'll be well on your way to developing resilience and a new kind of strength.

25x20cm

118 pages

$26.00

Take the Time

Mindfulness for Kids

Maud Roegiers

What do you notice when you take the time to stop, listen, and experience? This pensive and peaceful book encourages children to slow down and become deliberate with their day-to-day actions and thoughts. With gentle rhythms and soothing imagery, kids may be guided toward a quiet self-awareness and mindfulness. And when a day feels stressful or topsy-turvy, kids can use such self-awareness to calm down and feel better. Kids can then enjoy the beauty of the world all around them and fully savor life.

21x16cm

32 pages

$16.95

Talk with Teens about Self and Stress

50 Guided Discussions for School and Counseling Groups

Jean Sunde Peterson

All students need a safe place to "just talk" - to share their feelings and concerns with supportive peers and an attentive adult. Based on the author's years of experience teaching and leading discussion groups, this book is a proven way to reach out to the young people in your care. With these ready-to-use guided discussions, many complete with reproducible handout masters, you can help students to gain self-awareness and self-esteem, make better decisions, anticipate and solve problems, cope with stress and affirm themselves in all their complexity. Students gain valuable practice in articulating their feelings and learn that they have much in common with one another - they are not alone. Shocking cover, excellent book.

22x28cm

183 pages

$44.95

Teach Yourself to Meditate in 10 Simple Lessons

Discover Relaxation and Clarity of Mind in Just Minutes a Day (2ND ed.)

Eric Harrison

Ideal for beginning students, "Teach Yourself to Meditate in 10 Simple Lessons" guides the reader through a series of core meditations that the author has carefully honed over the years while personally guiding his students. Each lesson takes only a few minutes, yet each one relates a valuable meditation skill, including breathing, posture, body awareness, visualization and detachment. In the end, the reader will possess everything needed to develop a healthy practice.

22x16cm

168 pages

$24.00

What To Do When You Dread Your Bed

A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems with Sleep

Dawn Huebner & Bonnie Matthews

Wouldn't it be great if you could climb into bed, snuggle under your covers, and fall asleep without any fuss or fear? Without listening for noises or thinking about bad guys? Without an extra drink, or an extra hug, or an extra trip to the bathroom? Bedtime is tough for many kids. If you're a kid who dreads your bed, and are convinced that nothing short of magic will make nighttime easier, this book is for you. This book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with sleep. Fears, busy brains, restless bodies, and overdependence on parents are all tackled as children gain the skills they need for more peaceful nights.

28x22cm

93 pages

$28.95


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