Hot Air Balloon Visualization

Before sharing this week’s technique, it is important to remind the kids and teens you work with that negative emotions are natural, everyone has to deal with them.  And that in many cases they can be a valuable thing – they can be trying to tell us something.  

Sometimes though, these emotions become irrational or hold us back from something that is good for us or that we want to accomplish.  When this happens, the Hot Air Balloon Visualization, which I adapted from an excellent book by Tara Swart, MD, PhD, called The Source: The Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain, is a great technique to try out.