Indigo Ocean Dreams: 4 Children's Stories Designed to Decrease Stress, Anger and Anxiety while Increasing Self-Esteem and Self-Awareness (Indigo Dreams) by Lori Lite Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Indigo Ocean Dreams: 4 Children's Stories Designed to Decrease Stress, Anger and Anxiety while Increasing Self-Esteem and Self-Awareness (Indigo Dreams)
Book Review: Recommended to us by my daughter's therapist
Summary: 3 Stars
My 4yo's child psychologist recommended this CD for her. She hates it! She doesn't like to listen to the narrator. SHe would rather just listen to soothing music for meditating. My 7yo, on the other hand, enjoys it very much and asks to listen to one of the meditations often. it really depends on the child whether or not they'll like it. My older daughter is a hyper chatter-box, and my 4yo is very quiet and introspective. one complaint i have is that the CD is very short and i feel we didn't get a fair value.Book Review: Soothing
Summary: 3 Stars
My 4 year old son likes to listen to the music and read the books. I was hoping for a relaxation miracle and didn't happen. Book Review: Wonderful CD series - we can all use a little more relaxation and stress-relief in our lives!
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, the "Indigo Dreams" series of CDs is excellent, and my rating reflects my general perception across all three of them. The concepts and tone are soothing and the tools it teaches are effective. My very bright, creative 10 year old son suffers from pretty intense anxiety and stress issues; he also has some anger issues and trouble falling asleep, both of which are off-shoots of the stress and anxiety. While these CDs are (unfortunately!) not a total panacea, they are helpful for him on many a tough evening.
We own all three CDs in the "Indigo Dreams" series, and he listens to one or another of them just about every night. When he places one of those discs into the CD player, turns it on, and turns out the light, his body and brain seems to viscerally respond ... most of the time, anyhow. At his age and developmental level, he is just at the cusp of the kids' CDs being a little too young and the teen CD being a little too old, but he seems to benefit from them anyway. At this point, he still leans toward the kids' versions most of the time - the simple stories "zone him out" in a good way, though I can't honestly say that he "hears" them as much more than white noise after so many listenings. There are mornings when he tells me that he can't remember anything past the first or second story on the CD, which means he fell asleep relatively quickly. (YAY!) Sometimes we just skip the CD player to the "music only" tracks at the end of each CD and that relaxes him as well.
The only barrier that prevented me from rating the series with five stars rather than four is a minor "gender issue". My son prefers the voice of the female narrator; unfortunately, she is only present on the Indigo Dreams CD with the purple cover. And, also unfortunately, it's impossible just from surfing on Amazon to ascertain which narrator is included on a CD until one purchases it - the gender of the narrator is not included in the description or even on CD label/gem case. My son has "made his peace" with the male narrator (it wasn't a huge issue), but the female voice still seems to be most effective for him in terms of relaxing. (I suspect that the "Teen Dreams" CD may have garnered a more positive reception with a female narrator, but who knows?) This may not be an issue for most kids, but - if it is - be aware that the "Ocean" and "Teen" CDs include a male voice for the stories/exercises.
As an aside, my husband and I find ourselves successfully using some of the techniques that these CDs teach; I guess after listening to them (even peripherally) so many times we've just absorbed them! We await further additions to this terrific series!
Book Review: Best Anger Management Story
Summary: 5 Stars
Ocean creatures make this fun. My girls (ages 3 & 5), can relate to the octopus in the first story, stomp and get mad, then get under control. Then I can remind them later to be like the angry octopus and get control of themselves to fix things, instead of just being angry.Book Review: Can't recommend highly enough
Summary: 5 Stars
I never take time to do these reviews as I am too
busy. But this one deserves my time.
My son (5) is a bit on the anxious side due to some
surgeries, a very active mind/tense body, and quite
simply due to his personality. I have tried to teach
him breathing techniques and a small amount of
meditation- he didn't really learn them all that well.
However he LOVES both the Indigo Dreams cds for
kids and learned the breathing techniques
immediately. I was surprised to hear him say one
day out of the blue "MOM! On the cd there's one
called "Bubble Ride" and you can feel the bubbles
cascading all the way down to your fingertips and it
REALLY makes me relax!"
He won't go to sleep without them now. He
associates it with relaxation and sleep so all I have
to do is turn on the cd player and he immediately
closes his eyes and gets down to the business of
relaxing towards sleep. Before the cds, he would be
up and down in his room for up to an hour before
he would settle down and stay in bed.
My neighbors 10 yr old daughter is also very anxious
due to a break-in in their new home recently and
some other issues she has. I suggested this cd
awhile ago but her mother didn't buy it. Finally after
they had yet another sleepless night due to some
bad night terrors and were exhausted, I walked
down and physically handed one of our cds to them
so they would try it. She said her daughter loves
them and zonks right out. I never did hear if they
have "cured" her of the night terrors and anxiety
but I do know they bought their own copies the
next day!
It's a good thing too because my son was literally
crying to get his Indigo Ocean Dreams copy back
one night (he had the other one - Indigo Dreams
though!) and I had to walk down to their house in
the dark and trade them for our Indigo Dreams
copy!
The woman's voice is so soothing. It's
wonderful. I love to listen to it too. The pace is
perfect also. Thank you so much for these cds.
Children have so much to deal with in their little
lives and it's wonderful to see someone paying
attention to this and teaching them these
techniques they can learn easily and use for the rest
of their lives! Thank you Thank you!