Marble Mindfulness
Unlock Your Family’s Hidden Messages
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I believe that marbles came to be part of psychotherapy because of the nature of marbles. Marbles are round and circular, much like the mandala. When a person makes or selects a mandala, he or she makes or chooses a personal symbol of who he or she is at the moment (Fincher, 1991). Marbles have unique characteristics. This uniqueness makes it possible for marbles to be easily selected to represent individual family members and placed in a family constellation. They may be different in size, composition and color, and most importantly, they can create a WOW! surprise factor.
People seem to relate easily to marbles. Perhaps since marbles are for play, people appear to put their guard down when they are using them. Marbles can bring up the fun-and-games memories of childhood and friends, so some people have warm and fuzzy feelings about marbles. Marbles are simple, easy, and fun. I believe it is these characteristics that make it easy for psychotherapists and family counselors to shift the use of marbles from play to therapy.
The interpretation of marbles can provide accurate insights into your standing within your family. This is not play therapy. This is not a game.
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Have you lost your marbles? The question may imply that you are not thinking clearly, not making sense, or that your brain may need to be rewired. Marble Mindfulness explores the opposite of losing your marbles. It explains how marbles can be used to determine the reality in individual and family relationships.
Author George Toth, a therapist who has been using marbles as a diagnostic tool for more than forty years, provides a simple, step-by-step technique to interpret marbles and other small objects. Quick, creative, and accurate, this method will help you identify conscious and subconscious messages about strength of relationships, personality traits, feelings, beliefs, values, and place within the family or group. In addition, Toth shows how marbles can be used as a tool for assessing and improving team sports performance, small business goals, and corporate functioning.
With charts, instructions, and case studies included, Marble Mindfulness can assist you in unlocking hidden messages, gaining important insights about you and your family, and making plans for change.
About the Author
George Toth earned an MSW from Indiana University. He was director of Army Community Service, US Military Academy. A psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, Toth is an adjunct assistant professor in family counseling at Long Island University. He and his wife live in Cornwall on Hudson, New York. They have four children.