HOW FOCUSED GUIDED IMAGERY CAN HELP EDUCATION TODAY

BY CHARLES LUSSIER
Advocate staff writer
Published: May 31, 2007 - Page: 1b

Despite pockets of excellence, East Baton Rouge Parish schools showed at best sporadic improvement, and a few experienced worrying declines on standardized tests given in March.

The school system on Wednesday released results for 91 schools, spanning grades three through 11.

The tests assess students in English, language arts, math, science and social studies.

Fourth grade was the strongest single grade in East Baton Rouge Parish this year, as it was for the state as a whole. Six out of 10 Baton Rouge fourth-graders passed on the first try in March.

Lasalle, Merrydale and Polk elementary schools all improved their fourth-grade passage rates by 20 points or more compared with a year ago.

Over the past three years, only Lasalle, Ryan, South Boulevard, Wildwood and Winbourne elementaries have been able to maintain similarly high growth. Forest Heights and Westdale Heights improved even faster; they, however, were converted in fall 2004 to dedicated magnet schools.

Here at Focused Guided Imagery, we know that America’s education system is broken.  We believe America is the greatest country in the world, we just have not allowed our education system to tap into the power of the subconscious mind.  We simply, in too many cases, have allowed too many of our students to glide through the system without learning to seriously focus and concentrate in the classroom, in study and in test taking.  Don’t take my word for it, look at the skyrocketing number of college freshmen who now are enrolled in remedial courses.  This is because, as entering freshmen, they are not on the college level academically.  Junior College enrollment across this country is literally, “through the roof” because, in too many cases, our young people are not ready for college.

If your child is not focusing and concentrating, if you know your child (or you) are not reaching your potential, don’t delay, don’t wait, don’t think it’s merely something you “grow out of.”  Students don’t wake up one day and decide, “I’m going to start applying myself, I’m going to start making passing grades starting today.”  My experience has been that in the vast majority of cases, students who make the better grades in middle school, earn the better grades in high school, the better grades in college and the “better grades” in life. 

As a life coach I can tell you, there is no magic “poo-poo dust” to sprinkle on students.  Typically, the students who become winners are the students who are strong in three areas; classroom, study and test taking.  Here at Focus Guided Imagery, we specialize in walking our clients through the process of using the power of their subconscious minds to improve in all three areas. 

Our sessions last about 3 hours and are broken down into 45 minute segments.  Most clients tell us they don’t notice anything different at all when they leave the session.  Others say, they just went to sleep and don’t remember anything.  Perfect! The reality is, their conscious minds and their bodies were relaxed but their subconscious minds heard every suggestion of how, if they will allow, they can master the secret of learning.  At that point, the positive seeds have been planted and if watered, fertilized and placed in the sun, they will grow.  This is why it is so important to guard what goes into your mind.  The subconscious mind doesn’t care if what you put into it is positive or negative, it will grow.

What our education system needs is not more money, what our education system needs is, among other things, students who are equipped to do what it takes to win.  Focused Guided Imagery can give them just that, if they will allow it.