The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live in the Moment Spiral-bound – July 15, 2016

My teenager is enjoying this doodle book and it helps in supporting her mindfulness as she draws and creates. If you or your recipient lacks a creative spark...this may not be for you. A couple sentence prompt is given and the rest is the space to create...a less creative person (like myself,)may not fare as well as our creative daughter. It does support mindfulness, letting you draw what fear, happiness, etc is.I guess its hard to put a price on a teenager exploring her thoughts and emotions through these mindfulness promoting activities.

This mindful doodle book is made for both practitioners and for the ordinary person like me. Doodling is another way of practicing mindfullness. There are 75 creative exercises in the book. Each doodle has a short description of what the doodle is all about.At the beginning of the book, there are case examples of doodles. Although doodles are so personal, the examples help guide the lay person. Mindful doodles helped me deal with emotions i was trying to figure out. Once those doodles were on the paper, I felt so much better. It helped guide me to my next step.Everyone needs ways to help us decease our stress. Traditionally people thought of exercise, meditation, yoga, creativity as ways to help have a better quality of life. Now, mindful doodles can be added to this list.Let me share with you, that I have no artistic ability. That's was great about the doodles; it doesn't matter your ability. It's just about putting your thoughts and feelings on paper.I can only imagine how much this would add to a therapy session with a qualified person.I highly suggest you buy this book.

Super cool resource to use with my clients. It’s a great one for your more artistic kiddos but even appropriate for ones who are less artistically inclined.

This book is an incredible tool for meditation and conscious self introspection through doodling. I love it.

I use it with my clients at work and they enjoy doing the exercises

Anyone can enjoy this wonderful and inviting book: folks in "the biz" (teachers, therapists, counselors), artists, prisoners, writers, seniors, children, and, yes, executives -- the list goes on. Many of us non-artists can get intimidated by painting, or drawing with the right side of the brain. Whatever your tribe, this is a fun and healing book, for who among us doesn't doodle?? Dr. Isis's notion of doodling "mindfully" is the fruit of more than 30 years in the field of art and expressive therapies, and the 75 creative exercises in the book are divided into five categories: 1) Doodling Feelings (Emotional Landscapes): Happy doodle, sad doodle, loving others doodle, frustration doodle, excited and delighted doodle, etc.; 2) Doodling Mind: Deep thinking, dense, procrastination, stress relief, sentimental; 3) Doodling Hopes, Aspirations and Dreams: Present moment awareness, looking ahead one, five, or 10 years, gratitude, reality; 4) Doodling Experiences: dark and light, doctors office, sports, traveling, parenting, conflict resolution, divorce, death; 5) Doodling Your Universe: My view of now, dialogue with inner critic, dialogue with most supportive voice, musical, delicious, gut feeling ... well, maybe you get the idea. Her narrative is a clear, useful, and accessible guide for a mental health practitioner or The examples are most helpful. You might want to keep this book close at hand, and take a few minutes to release your inner kid and doodle it up. (Testimonial: When I was stuck on a work project one day, I did the "roadblock" doodle, took a walk, checked out the doodle again, and got refocused and back on track.) Conclusion: I strongly recommend this book as a kind gift to yourself or someone you care about.

A little more mature than I expected.

just as described. Great item!