Amongst many other things, “The Listeners” by Richard Swan teaches your child the most highly effective & simple breathing technique to calm themselves down and tap into their inner strength.
And they won’t even know they’re learning the technique, as it’s hidden amongst beautiful, illustrated and engaging tales that young kids just love to read.
It’s one of the most effective proven ways for helping children to relax, focus, and remove fear.
“GENIUS!!!
Absolutely brilliant! Daniel Goleman penned a novel trying to explain emotional intelligence. Unfortunately his effort targeted a small minority of the population – the academic elite.
This book will reach a bigger audience and help prepare children for real life events.
Mr Swan should keep writing and perhaps help older emotional cripples worldwide who rely on drink and drugs to dull emotional pain.
He has provided a simple, staightforward map for the journey that is life.
Thank you, and well done.”
- James G McGinlay
Senior Amazon Book Reviewer (Book Elementals)
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The tale of “Cian’s Grandpa” shows how confusing death can be to a young child, and how easy it is to speak with them at their level and help them through the grief.
Is your child facing bullying at school or home?
An emotional and stirring story shows how children can find their own inner strength and teaches them that the real person carrying the fear…is the bully.
Are you struggling with your child’s frustration and anger issues?
The Listeners teaches the world famous Eckhart Tolle’s (author of “The Power of Now”) deep breathing technique in a manner that a child can understand and follow – calming them down instantly.
Do you wish you could help your child find the real them that lives inside?
Read through the book with them and help them understand the magical voice of “The Listener” is really their own inner voice and intuition that can guide them in any situation.
“The author took to heart his daughter’s questions about life and through his desire to inform her with fact, while taking into account her young age, he set about the task in the age-old way of storytelling.
This short and lovely book has four stories for children, each of them linking up with each other as they use the same characters. Children like this ‘ongoing’ storytelling method. It helps them relate to the characters as real people and identify with their problems as their own. While taking in the ‘story’ they also take on board the reality behind it. The stories are also very lovingly illuminated by the softness of the pencil drawings rendered by Richard’s mother Anne.
Richard gets to the heart of the questions young children constantly ask about life and which more often than not, adults find hard to answer.
As an adult with six grandchildren I enjoyed reading this book myself and bought it for each of my three sons to share with their children. It opens up new ways of dealing with those “curly ones” and showing us adults how easy it is to communicate with children on their level with love and understanding, and to show children how to listen to their own intuition when it comes to fears of the unknown, preparing them for the love, joys and sadnesses of life.”
- Mary M Tonner
Life & Business Coach Master Practitioner (New Zealand)