...Join the author on this narrative and inspiring tour of principal Ogilvy's daily encounter with stress. His assistants, Ms Noodle and Mr Bishop, are  astounded by the daily rigors and stress which they also endure mainly as a result of Ogilvy's leadership style, and in some cases situations that they unknowingly create.  

Their ability to lead was challenged by daily encounters with a faculty that was resistant to change. In response to a growing number of complaints from staff, parents, and at times the leadership team, the assistant superintendent finally scheduled stress management training for Ogilvy and his assistants.  Ogilvy's leadership team was not pleased.  Their perception of stress management training as being a 'touchy-feely' session was quickly changed when they met a facilitator who led them through a path of self discovery and awareness which forever changed the manner in which they led. They gained knowledge of  stressors which resided in the school's culture; theoretical and practical approaches to addressing these stressors; and learned coping strategies which guided them in leading change in a dynamic manner.

Eventually Manchester Elementary transformed into being a healthy learning environment conducive to student achievement, and a place that the entire faculty and staff enjoyed working.

Have you tried meditation, reflection, contemplation, rumination, counseling, therapy, zoning in or zoning out, and you still are not able to enjoy peaceful harmony in your life?  Well, this book is about a technique called Guided Imagery.   The practice of Guided Imagery can help one to reduce the onset of, and to change the outcomes of life''''s stressors by imparting a means to learn new coping skills, and enable the individual to regain power by taking a proactive rather than a “wait and see” approach to the issues of life.  Guided Imagery can be likened to taking off one''s rose-colored glasses and seeing clearly for the very first time.

       As you read this book, you will see how Guided Imagery can provide a way to “refocus, regroup and recommit” pent-up energies in one''s life toward positive outcomes and changes.  The technique of Guided Imagery examines life''s situations that have already occurred, or will occur, and uses them for what they really are, or can be.  In other words, taking the stumbling blocks that may make you fall into stepping stones of opportunity for healing and growth.  Guided Imagery is a way of seeing, and reentering a time or place that has caused you harm, and uncovering hidden or misunderstood feelings and emotions but in a positive, and curative manner. 

       Guided Imagery offers its reader an invitation to come and to see, and not only to see but to also enter into that vision or that experience as an active participant, not as someone who has been hypnotized.  Guided Imagery can enable one to see, to feel and to experience through personal feelings and emotions, a newness and freshness, and to learn from it, to be healed by it, and to overcome through its positive use and reflection. 

       Guided Imagery is an empowerment that speaks to the tripartite being of man - spirit, soul and body to come together for healing of the whole person.  There are within each of us, written into our members, all of our life''s experiences, controlling, hindering, and even creating illness and disease; they are there within each of us.  It is possible that by learning to tap into these experiences one can remove the stress which can be quite freeing and liberating.  It can bring about healing and an insight to free one from the walls that have separated and confined, the jail that has incarcerated, and the emotional hurts that have brought about an impotent life