Meditating With Children-The Art of Concentration and Centering : A Workbook on New Educational Methods Using Meditation [Paperback]

Deborah Rozman (Author)

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Publication Date: August 15, 2002

The newly revised edition of the classic Meditation with Children incorporates Dr. Rozman's popular, proven techniques for meditation with a powerful new focus on the heart. Teaching children to center in the heart adds balance and self-esteem, improves decision-making and puts children in touch with their deeper core values. Meditating with Children has been used successfully by educators across the country in public, private and home schools and as a textbook for many Sunday School Programs.

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After receiving her doctorate in psychology Deborah Rozman, Ph. D. founded a private elementary school and international teacher-training center called Evergreen School, which received much praise and acknowledgement. Since 1973 Dr. Rozman has taught transpersonal psychology, parent-child awareness groups, personal growth and development. She is the author of three children's tapes, three books and has edited numerous others. Today she is the Executive Vice President for HeartMath LLC, the educational company for the Institute of HeartMath, and is developing programs for families, counselors, educators and business professionals. Deborah has been on numerous radio and television shows, written many articles and was listed in Who's Who in California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Integral Yoga Publications; Revised edition (August 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932040527
• ISBN-13: 978-0932040527
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,363,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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49 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As seen in Deepak Chopra's Infinite Possibilities newsletter, November 25, 1997

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This review is from: Meditating With Children: The Art of Concentration and Centering (Hardcover)

Rozman teaches children to center in the heart, which puts them in touch with the depth of their own being. By using the heart as the primary focus for centerning and concentration, children balance their mental, physical, and emotional natures, self-esteem expands, decision-making skills improve, and the ability to concentrate increases. Guided imagery, yoga, creative fantasy, movement, psychology, and love are used to give form to the inner spiritual qualities inherent in youth, resulting in happier, more caring children who may communicate the truth of their hearts.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars a little too new age-y for today's reader, October 21, 2006

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This review is from: Meditating With Children-The Art of Concentration and Centering : A Workbook on New Educational Methods Using Meditation (Paperback)

I had been looking forward to reading this book for years, as it seems to be one of the only publications that deals with teaching children to meditate. The book is well-organized, with adequate introduction before launching into meditation and visualization exercises which are followed by worksheets and question/answer sessions.

The book does not seem to have made the jump from 1975 (1st ed.) through 1994 (2nd ed.) and now into its third edition in 2002. It retains countless new age artifacts, such as terms like "the Source within" and "the Higher Self" which I do not understand. The language that the author uses will likely not make sense to most readers from either a Christian or Buddhist perspective, and those readers may struggle to pull something useful out of her writings. In an attempt to present a teaching that is free of religious dogma, the author may have created a book that promotes some sort of new age spiritualism that currently finds few followers in the world.

The book is interesting and ambitious, but I would hesitate to use any of these meditation exercises (spaceship meditation, temple of light meditation, gravity and radiation meditation especially) with my own children. Better to teach a few simple meditation approaches that are grounded on thousand-year-old traditions (Zen or Tong Len for example), rather than a large number of exercises that may be interesting to kids but have no proven value.