Benefits of Guided Imagery
Teaching the fundamentals of guided imagery to children will build self-esteem, promote creativity, and help to identify their strengths, adding to their repertoire of skills to face new challenges, problems, or pressure at home, school, or in their personal lives. Guided imagery provides children with a natural tool to balance support and connect mind, body and spirit.
Who would benefit from the book
Children with special needs, chronic or acute illnesses, and typically developing children facing everyday challenges will find the activities in this book fun and engaging as they learn new and innovative ways to cope with the extraordinary and everyday stress of life.
Who should use this book
This book offers parents, educators, child life specialist, healthcare professionals, as well as anyone looking for unique and innovative ways to holistically support children’s growth and development, build self-esteem, and promote creativity through movement, play and imagination.
Guided Imagery
Children learn through creating, playing, and imagining themselves as a princess, fire fighter, or major league baseball player. Following Imagination….utilizes this essence of what makes children unique in their approach to life to support them as they grow, learn, and develop. Each activity in the book provides children with the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of guided imagery through interactive games and arts and craft activities that teach skills like progressive muscle relaxation, and deep breathing or help children recognize their own gifts and strengths and how to access and build upon them.
Over 30 pages with more than a dozen different Guided Imagery Exercises

Following Imagination….Activities for Children that
Move, Create and Play with the Fundamentals of Guided Imagery provide
the parent and practitioner with a variety of activities with easy to
follow directions, discussion tips, uses and benefits and a list of
materials that are easily found in the home, recycled, and friendly to
the environment. The activities are divided into three chapter headings
outlining ways to use the activities in a group setting, individually,
or combined with another activity. A list of Family Stress Busters is an
added bonus to offer to families looking for fun and quick ways to
break the tension of any stressful situation.



