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Awake and Ready ¿Featuring Paramhansa Yogananda's practical principles on energy and form, Awake & Ready guides you in applications and practices. Susan Usha Dermond cites real-life experiences to illustrate different keys to working with energy. You will find useful suggestions that ease tensions, improve your relationships, and create a happier environment whether in your home, workplace, or classroom.Discover the 8 Keys to Working with Energy & Motivating Anyone: Excitement vs HappinessNurture EnthusiasmGetting Unstuck: Action is the Answer!Energy Follows WillProgressive DevelopmentRedirect Energy to a Higher LevelBe FOR Something, Not Against AnythingChange Directions With Creativity and FunSusan Usha Dermond, BA, MA, MLS, has a varied background in education, most of it in the Education for Life system. She began her career as an English teacher in public high schools and most recently taught high school English in the Ananda Online High School. She founded the third Living Wisdom School in Portland, Oregon, where she was the director for fifteen years, and prior to that, taught fourth through ninth grades at the first Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village in northern California, where she currently lives. She developed the first online Education for Life classes and is the author of a handbook for teachers and parents, Calm and Compassionate Children (Random House).

Building on such inherent qualities as openheartedness and trust, parents and teachers can help children develop empathy and integrity as they grow and mature. From nature activities to conscious quiet time to tips on daily routines, CALM AND COMPASSIONATE CHILDREN provides practical guidance to help grown-ups model behavior and suggests dozens of activities to foster children's joy, wonder, kindness, and love. A parents' and teachers' guide to developing children's concentration, self-discipline, and compassion, as well as heartfelt qualities like openness and enthusiasm.Includes more than 90 techniques and exercises drawn from the author's experiences as a teacher and director of the Living Wisdom School, a nonprofit elementary school that emphasizes nonsectarian spiritual principles and practical skills for living.Recommends books, music, games, and other resources to help grown-ups nurture calm and compassionate kids.