Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children for Learning, Creativity & Relaxation

by Maureen Murdock

If 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.

Genres: Parenting, Childrens, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 1987

About the author

Maureen Murdock is an author, educator, Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and photographer. Maureen teaches memoir writing, which she loves, through the Memoir Certificate at Pacifica Graduate Institute, for IWWG (International Women's Writing Guild) and in workshops throughout the US. She was Chair and Core faculty of the MA Counseling Psychology Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and adjunct faculty in the Depth Psychology Department at Sonoma State University. Murdock blogs about mental illness, addiction and incarceration on her website and participates in Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) as a volunteer at Lompoc Federal Prison.

Reviews

[Barbara Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Also found this book useful.

[Leanne Ellis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considering the author wrote this in 1987, she was way ahead of her time. I like the specific visualization dialogues she offers for teachers/parents to try. I will try these in conjunction with our cisual thinking unit and see what I get.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maureen Murdock is amazing! I've been working through different meditation and relaxation exercises with elemenatary-age kids and the effect is fantastic. Her guided-imagery techniques are simply explained and easy to implement. Love-love-love this book!