Beschrijving

Rainbow Dreaming – A Big Book of Calm explores meditation and relaxation with children. Full of practical examples, it takes the reader step by step through the process of teaching children how to visualise and the art of meditation. Rainbow Dreaming uses the seven traditional colours of the rainbow to provide visualisations and wonderful adventures and activities for children to enjoy. In order to make our products more accessible to everyone we have taken each section of visualisations from Rainbow Dreaming and created 8 ebooks, one for each colour of the rainbow, plus a special rainbow ebook that has a selection of visualisations for balance.

The visualisations in each ebook encourage children to explore their emotions and their imaginations. Children can discover things about themselves and the way they relate to others. They can explore places and do things that may not be possible in everyday life. The visualisations instil important life qualities and explore key values such as compassion and gratitude. They allow children to be creative and to use their minds without external stimulation. Some of the visualisations take the child on an external journey of adventure and some will take them on an internal journey allowing the opportunity to look within and discover that quiet place we all have inside. Once a child has experienced visualisation and is familiar with the techniques and journey involved, they can call on them whenever the need to.

**Rainbow Thoughts and Affirmations-**Thoughts can influence your attitude and behaviour and can affect how you perceive and react to a situation. Each visualisation has a set of Rainbow Thoughts to provide an insight into the visualisation, to prompt further discussion or to use in a sharing circle. The Rainbow Thoughts provide further points of interest to be explored and the values and life-skills associated with each visualisation.

Affirmations are included with each visualisation to reinforce positive self-talk and to provide a point of focus. Teaching children to repeat a positive statement helps them to believe that it is true in their subconscious mind. In essence we create what we think about. Therefore, if we teach children to use positive words and create positive thoughts it will evoke positive emotions. Positive emotions are stepping-stones that lead to positive expectations, which in turn lead to the creation of positive experiences.