Emotional Healing & Self-Esteem: Inner-Life Skills of Relaxation, Visualization and Meditation for Children and Adolescents

This book looks at a number of questions about children and their personal development in terms of self-esteem, poise, and inner peace. It presents a range of accessible personal development exercises for children and adolescents that introduces the skills of relaxation, visualisation and meditation. Annotation. How can parents and teachers support children in their personal development? How can child care providers help kids find self-esteem, poise and inner peace? How can children learn to let go of stress and agitation?This book presents a range of personal development exercises for children and adolescents that introduce the skills of relaxation, visualization, and meditation. The exercises are clear and accessible and help elementary and junioror high-school students understand their inner world. Teachers, counselors, child care workers and parents will all discover new methods for teaching relaxation and quiet inner focus, movement meditations, and exercises that develop self-esteem. Students will gain newfound creativity, a language to articulate their feelings, and skills for attaining a calm and balanced outlook. Step-by-step guidelines are provided on planning, presenting and integrating inner-life skills programs into group work. Family and group communication games are also included "Readers will learn new methods for teaching relaxation and quiet inner focus, movement meditations, and exercises that develop emotional, spiritual and intellectual awareness and self-esteem. These exercises aim to help students gain new-found creativity, a language to articulate their feelings, and skills for attaining a calm and balanced outlook."--Publisher's information