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This complete set of tracks of guided imagery for PTSD can be used alongside other treatment approaches, as well as a stand-alone healing tool. Empowering and effective, this highly regarded guided meditation set for PTSD treatment increases self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth. The separate track of affirmations bolsters the PTSD treatment process with quick, positive reminders in a briefer format which listeners can hear while engaged in other activities, including driving.

This skillful and artfully produced approach for relieving stress makes our guided imagery programs a frequent choice for patient referral by health care providers and mental health professionals, as well as a popular word-of-mouth favorite among friends. The first meditation to relieve stress is guided imagery for mastering anxiety. The second is a guided meditation that offers evocative images designed to pump up natural feelings of love, safety, protection and support. The third is a deeply relaxing walking meditation for the fidgeters among us.

In this powerful, hypnotic, research-proven guided meditation for smoking cessation, positive encouragement to quit smoking naturally comes from imagining the lungs healing and toxins clearing from the body, while capacity grows each day for taking in more and more rich, energizing, life-giving oxygen. In addition to anticipating the return of a fuller sense of smell and taste, listeners learn important self-calming and relaxation skills on this smoking cessation meditation to sustain impulse control when the urge to smoke threatens to impede progress.

This guided imagery and affirmations for anyone dealing with grief provides a powerful way of coping with loss naturally and holistically, helping to release sorrow and gently move beyond the pain of bereavement to grief recovery, in whatever way and for however long it takes each listener. This guided meditation helps the mind and body to relax and release sorrow, reduce feelings of loneliness, encourage eventual acceptance of a new reality, promote skills for coping with grief, and create space for nourishing memories to provide solace, hope, energy and inspiration for the future.

If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships—or a tragedy like 9/11—all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors become “invisible heroes,” courageously struggling to lead normal lives in spite of symptoms so baffling and disturbing that they sometimes doubt their own sanity.

Created by foremost guided imagery and trauma psychotherapist Belleruth Naparstek, this guided meditation for healing posttraumatic stress was made with the help of trauma experts as well as sufferers of posttraumatic stress. Empowering and effective, this guided PTSD audio program increases self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth, while it reduces distress and depression. A separate track of affirmations bolsters the PTSD treatment process with quick, positive reminders in a briefer format

Our sleep meditation helps those who wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep, and it's perfect for people who simply want to doze off faster. For a surprising number of listeners, it eventually replaces sleep medication. Repeated listening at bedtime for two to three weeks ensures maximum effectiveness. The Health Journeys' guided sleep meditation audio combats insomnia and provides deep, restorative sleep by creating a rich atmosphere of protection, with images that are evocative enough to successfully compete with the brain chatter that keeps us awake.

This positive affirmations audio program offers positive statements to help combat negative thinking and set the stage for a desired attitude and behavioral change, naturally and organically. Repeated listening to this positive self-talk once or twice a day for two to three weeks can result in profound, holistic personal change. In fact, this positive affirmations audio program can be listened to while driving, dressing, folding laundry, or shaving, and it will still have a powerful, cumulative impact.

This mix of six brief, favorite-pick relaxation and meditation exercises offers a convenient and portable toolkit of quick relaxation techniques to maintain emotional balance and relieve stress fast. These guided imagery and meditation exercises for stress provide speedy access to a peaceful, healing mind state—especially useful when time is short and pressure is mounting. Different meditation exercises will appeal at different times, depending on inner mood and external circumstances. Mix and match however you wish.

Designed for those searching for ways how to heal a broken heart and those getting over a breakup or divorce, this guided meditation for heartbreak helps alleviate physical, psychological and emotional pain naturally, by reconnecting listeners to their own core of inner strength and basic, inborn sense of wholeness. This meditation for a breakup also instills reminders of a sense of purpose, lovability, and hope for the future, while envisioning the eventual return to living each day with an open, joyful heart.

This spiritual meditation provides guided imagery and affirmations designed to help listeners find intuitive understanding and spiritual guidance for any issue, question or concern they face; or it can simply support their spiritual wellness or meditative practice, naturally and holistically. Created as a heart-based complement to prayer or reflection, this spiritual meditation helps listeners live in greater harmony with their deepest purpose and highest good. Evocative guided imagery and immersive music set up powerful preconditions for attaining insight, clarity, and perspective.

Through relaxing around and through physical or emotional pain, refocusing the mind, and marshalling serotonin-elevating images of love, gratitude, safety and peace, muscle aches, joint pain can subside, minimized or even transformed. This empowering program has been found effective for many kinds of chronic pain management, for conditions as diverse as pancreatitis, fibromyalgia, muscle spasm, emotional pain, joint pain relief, headache, gastric distress and back pain.

This guided meditation for Parkinson's Disease is carefully and expertly designed to encourage balance and good posture, mentally rehearse strong, steady movement, alleviate depression, discouragement and fatigue, and increase symptom control over common movement problems such as freezing, cramping, tremors and other side effects. In other words, the affirmations and guided imagery for Parkinson's Disease on this audio program are a natural accompaniment to PD treatment.

Belleruth Naparstek’s audio guides you on how to get ready for surgery by imagining a successful, safe and comfortable operation and recovery, complete with guided imagery suggestions and images of all the desired outcomes, including reduced bleeding, lower use of pain medication and fast mending with minimal discomfort. Ideal for hip surgery recovery and shoulder surgery recovery, this highly acclaimed mind-body meditation is particularly helpful for the more difficult and extended process of recovery from knee surgery.

This guided meditation for multiple sclerosis (MS) is designed as a natural, mind-body treatment for MS, to complement standard medical treatment. It is particularly effective aid in combating fatigue, stress and pain. Continued listening to positive affirmations and guided imagery for multiple sclerosis will bolster energy, mood and motivation, promote relaxation and positive mood, reduce fatigue and depression, and help with movement, balance, cramping and pain, as demonstrated in recent research on the power of mental imagery to improve motor functioning in neurological conditions.

This guided imagery for hospice and palliative care is designed for patients and their families looking for closeness, resolution and closure during end-of-life care. The powerful, soothing tracks of guided meditation and affirmations on this uniquely comforting guided imagery for palliative care provide reassurance and inspiration to dying patients and their families, reducing fear and distress, while helping with grief, pain and anticipated loss. Often the result of a patient and family's listening to this program is finding freed up energy and thinking that can be applied.

When listened to repeatedly, either as separate segments or cumulatively as a whole set, these tracks will dramatically reduce anxiety and the frequency and intensity of panic attacks by teaching relaxation at will, reducing fear and isolation, and instilling a sense of mastery and control in the listener. After two to three weeks, most people experience a substantial reduction or even elimination of panic attacks' classic symptoms. For some, this guided meditation for panic attacks has reduced the need for medication, and in some instances, it has even replaced it.

This guided meditation for IBS and inflammatory bowel disease consists of state-of-the-art, research-based guided imagery and affirmations to help people successfully manage and reduce the distressing, painful symptoms of IBS and IBD, naturally and holistically. The guided meditation for IBS is also designed to work well with more traditional treatment approaches, and is appropriate for conditions known as spastic colon, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

This guided imagery audio program for depression can be used as a stand-alone therapy or an adjunctive treatment alongside more traditional approaches of psychotherapy and/or medication. It has even been found helpful to people dealing with bipolar illness. The soothing, hypnotic narrative evokes imagery of the heavy fog of depression lifting, as tamped down energy is liberated and released, so that you can reunite with your own inner strength and again feel hope, love, motivation and possibility. For those who wish to try treating depression naturally, this is worth trying first.

This audio is a soothing, calming guided meditation for medical procedures, designed at the request of Kaiser Permanente to help patients undergoing cardiac catheterization feel more relaxed and confident during their procedure. It then was adapted for use for a whole range of potentially uncomfortable or unpleasant procedures where it is necessary for patients to be awake—colonoscopies, needle biopsies, getting stitched, gynecological exams, intubations, extubations—anything where the patient's comfort can be improved by taking the anxious mind elsewhere.