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"No one teaches us how to live in a body. Wouldn't it be helpful to know the best way to use our brain? Could it be that we are born with an internal instruction manual? Might it be hidden inside each of us from birth? Within a language that many people overlook? Welcome to Smartview Stories(TM) - a self-empowerment book series for children and adults ages 9-99! Our emotional literacy stories help unlock this instruction manual and its hidden language. Our body and brain are always wanting our well-being. We can learn their language. This language reveals how we process and makes sense of life. Over time, with practice, a mutual trust develops within us. We see our life with fresh eyes. New possibilities emerge within and around us. Our third book features the Poplar Family. Here we learn more about 4-year-old Levi. Levi is Mama Dawn's nephew. He comes for a visit which unfolds to something more. Our first story, ""Stone Play"", describes Levi's first full morning staying with the Poplar's and how he finds a sense of belonging. ""It's Not Fair!"", is about sibling patterns, surprise, and how a good listening friend can help us find a new perspective around an old assumption. Our third story, ""Bird Song"", opens with surprise and confusion that transform to a spacious welcoming toward one of Levi's unique skills. Throughout all three stories, the initial surprise, fear and confusion that we often feel entering a new relationship or community, are transformed by our inherent abilities to sense what is needed here and to create more space until all feels safe to be the way it is. The Poplars mess up plenty. With the help of their Inner Companions, they catch themselves and find a better way forward. Our setting is Smartview Village, a small intentional community formed to practice these inner relational skills. The way they live changes. These families recognize the value of sharing their stories. Each book includes three short stories featuring one family. A fourth story features our Inner Companions. Based on Focusing and neuroscience concepts, these three characters help us understand our inner world. Within each Smartview Stories book, our three stories are Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level Grade 3, supplemental pages are Grades 4-6. The characters and events portrayed in our books are fictitious and based on real life experiences. There is an understanding that human beings are living processes. Watch for Parent/Teacher/Therapist workbooks to support using these books as emotional literacy educational curriculum. You might be attracted to this series if: You enjoy reading together as a family. You are a counselor, homeschool parent or teacher. You teach emotional literacy and want to share this with students. You would like to share these with a child who has a hard time expressing what they are feeling inside. You'd like to explore and understand how our brains process and make sense of life. You want to improve your relational skills with yourself, others, or your environment. You are interested in community living. You are interested in learning Focusing skills. You want to bring more understanding and compassion to your own inner world. You have a fondness for the Blue Ridge Mountains. You enjoy neuroscience and applying it to your understanding of yourself and others. You can learn more about Focusing, the research and international community supporting it at www.focusing.org. You can learn more about how these books interweave learning Focusing with neuroscience concepts at www.sandyjahmi.com."

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"""Life brings unexpected challenges for the Poplar family. I invite you to step into their story. Each character uses the simple yet profound tools of Focusing to explore their own dance of human emotions and behaviors. As they pause, listen more intently to bodily sensations, and discover personal insights, there is space for readers and listeners alike to slow down and attend to their own discoveries. Enjoy! I certainly did."" Joanne Dahill, Certified Focusing Professional, Birth Doula, Birth and Parenting Educator"

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Smartview Stories(TM) is a children's emotional literacy empowerment book project that was birthed on the new moon of July, 2018. This came quite by surprise, I simply woke up that morning and knew I wanted to do this, and that this project would unfold all in its own ripe timing. Earlier in 2018, I had a strong felt sense image of groups of me coming together in team-like huddles. This is one joyful, confident inner team gathered here for this project.I was first inspired by a concept of helping people everywhere find the Safe Place within us that we practice as Focusers. As we learn to create and hold space for our current moment, we are bringing safety to our inner world. Each time we find a way for this situation or this challenging moment to feel seen and accepted to be itself, we bring safety. We may not be able to do this in every moment; however we practice and it happens more often. When we feel a tenseness, a tightness, discomfort of any kind, we pause, tune into the environment and our situation and find something around us to rest into as a safe place. My daily walks in the woods reminded me of this. I noticed all the safe niches that ecosystems create within themselves. We can do this for ourselves and each other too.The first story I wrote is called A Puddly Kind of Day. I wanted to show how a common shaming type of experience that might happen in our youth, would be handled differently if you and the people around you had an awareness of Focusing skills. Over time, joys and challenges facing humanity, from tiny to huge, will find their way into these stories. Thank you, world for weaving the beautiful and strong ground this project stands upon.I will be developing ways to stay in touch. For now, you can find me here: www.learnfocusing.org and www.smartviewstories.com and at https: //www.facebook.com/groups/learnfocusing. Nomi Miller is a believer in magic and the power of words. She likes to draw, dance, sing, be silly and do nothing at all. She lives in a garden colony in Denmark with her baby-to-be. Creator of our People, Aaron Staengl is an artist and Ayurvedic practitioner with a regular meditation and yoga practice. His company Ayurvedaposters has an international presence. He lives in the Blue Ridge mountains and enjoys spending time with his two year old son.

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