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Best-selling guided imagery author Max Highstein shares indispensable tips and techniques for crafting guided meditations that inspire, uplift, and heal. For counselors, teachers, healers, yoga instructors, clergy - anyone who wants to bring excellence to their work.

Each guided meditation helps you stay focused on your current step, uncover the truth, and release negativity. Profoundly relaxing and deeply supportive, 12-Step Guided Meditations reinforces the positive side of your character, and strengthens your connection to your Higher Power. Anyone who approaches this material with a sincere desire to change can benefit.

A soothing guided sleep meditation... Enjoy a good night's sleep with this gentle inner journey. Take an evening walk along the beach to your secluded seaside cottage. Secure in your comfy bed on the screened-in porch, enjoy a full body relaxation, and then let the waves lull you into dreamland. At the end of the inner journey the narration tapers off, and the waves continue for another 30 minutes.

Trauma can be healed. In this guided meditation, lovingly narrated and supported by powerful healing music, Michael helps you release burdens from the past that you may have thought were yours to carry forever. Studies reveal a staggering percentage of adults have at some point been subject to physical or sexual abuse, with a large percentage of incidents occurring during childhood. Fortunately, the figures have been decreasing in recent years, and will hopefully continue to do so. But the effects of abuse and other kinds of trauma stay with us, and can seriously hamper our ability to live peaceful, fulfilled lives.

Very etherial and mystical, 12 Cosmic Healers is a journey into the heavens, where 12 great Archangels, each in a different sign of the zodiac, send healing light and sound to 12 different ares of your body. This program corresponds musical key signatures with astrological signs and the body. It's quite a trip! Magnificently narrated by Leigh Taylor-Young, with Max Highstein on piano and synthesizers.

Relax, connect within, and feel deep inner peace with this exquisite guided meditation from one of the world’s leading experts in healing imagery. Gentle narration, a magical script, and soothing original music gracefully combine to deliver an unforgettable experience! This is the long-awaited third installment in the Healing Waterfall trilogy from Max Highstein. The new program, The Healing Waterfall III: Angel Pouring Light, carries forward the theme - a serene forest walk and a waterfall with a soothing pool below, where the listener can float and drift in curative waters.

Would you like to experience more love, courage, and spontaneity? The Daily Focus mediation allows you to choose any personal quality, experience it within you, and bring it into your daily routine. This program is easy to do, peaceful, and inspiring, with gentle narration and background music.

Walk with this loving holy man, and receive his help. Anthony of Padua was a Franciscan friar and teacher who helped his brothers and students worship devoutly, and stay on their spiritual path. Although he possessed great wisdom and oratory talent, he was a shy and humble man. He was, and remains, a warm and approachable soul, and we can easily connect with him and receive his kind and loving support.

How do you feel about your body? The way you see yourself, and your attitude about your body, greatly influence your self-esteem, your emotional well-being, and even your physical health. If you’re interested in improving your health, recovering from illness, losing weight, or becoming more fit, never underestimate the importance of your body image. And if you struggle with an eating disorder, you’ll want to pay especially careful attention to this issue.

Rose petals floating down from Heaven herald your face to face visit with Mother Mary. As you sit together, she offers you her comfort and her love. You may ask her anything, and receive her guidance in this tender guided meditation with beautiful background music and gentle narration. This new series of guided meditations provides you the chance to visit with great spiritual figures from many traditions, each portrayed in a new light. Each journey is a powerful tribute to these wonderful beings, and a great opportunity to connect with them deeply and personally.

Engage your mind-body connection to release or reduce your pain with this gentle guided meditation. In this healing meditation, you’ll invite your pain it to communicate to you about its reason for being. It may have new information for you about your body, your feelings, your relationships, your life, any of which may be contributing factors. Once it has an opportunity to say what it’s been trying to tell you, it may no longer serve a purpose. That’s when you’ll apply the imagery in this program to make it dissolve and disappear.

Patience allows us to meet challenges peacefully, get along easily with others, accomplish long-term goals, and enjoy life. With patience, we can handle bad drivers and computer glitches without tearing out our hair, master a musical instrument, or raise a child with our sanity in tact. But early on, most of us also absorb a variety of negative patterns and beliefs that undermine our patience. Use this guided meditation to uncover and release old programming, and bring patience and peace into your most challenging situations, and all of your life.

Stress reduction is easy with this guided relaxation program. The gentle narration and soothing ocean waves will have you feeling relaxed in no time. First, you’ll find yourself walking along a tropical shore on a warm summer day. Soon, you’ll come to a comfy lounge chair and settle in to listen to the waves. There, you’ll enjoy a full-body relaxation, from head to toe. And then you’ll be led through an easy, enjoyable breathing relaxation to help you settle in still deeper. This program is all natural, with no side effects other than feeling very, very good.

Feelings of shyness are based upon deeply held beliefs that others won’t like us, won’t understand us, that we have little in common, and if we reach out, we’ll ultimately be rejected and hurt. But everyone can learn the simple skills of listening and talking to others, and with a little practice, shy people can learn to reach out and make new friends. This guided meditation will help you get over the initial fear of connecting to others by visualizing yourself in social situations, easily meeting people, and enjoying the results.

Prayer and meditation are cornerstones of spiritual life. But how can we transcend “rote” recitation, and experience more of the true connection to God’s love that we seek? This guided rosary meditation was made to help us do exactly that. Listen to Sacred Chamber of the Rosary just before you begin your prayers, and discover more. In this guided meditation, with gentle narration and soft background music, you’ll set aside your daily cares, and meet with Jesus, Mary, and all the Saints and Angels who help bring us God’s love.

Bitterness is a state of mind that colors the way we see others and ourselves and limits our potential for loving relationships. When we are repeatedly injured or beaten down by life, we adopt a bitter, cynical, and pessimistic point of view as a way of protecting ourselves from further disappointment. But at some point, we have to reopen to the possibility that the world is a good place. With expertly crafted narration and evocative background music, this guided inner journey enlightens, encourages healing from within, and helps us chart a new, more positive course.

Do you experience moments of paralyzing fear, panic, or anxiety that are out of proportion to situations at hand? When fear takes over, it impairs our judgment, makes us miserable, and causes us to make poor decisions. This program offers an effective way to reduce your fear and approach life in a clearer, more fully present and comfortable way.

Use this guided meditation to tap the power of prayer for your own healing, for resolution of any situation you may face, or to relieve suffering of any kind. Journey into the heavens to a temple of light, where you'll meet with angels, masters, healers, and loved ones, waiting to channel love from the Creator into you. Receive their grace and their messages of peace and healing. Then receive God's love directly within your heart, as the Creator reads your deepest prayers and responds with grace for your highest good.

Guided meditation takes you to the finest hotel for the night. When you’ve been traveling and you’re exhausted, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of crawling into an exceptionally comfortable bed, in a hushed suite, in a luxury hotel. In this program you’ll tap into that feeling of complete comfort and total relaxation, to help you deeply relax and easily fall asleep, no matter where you are.

In Sacred Stillness, you’ll visit the high desert, and experience its mystery. You’ll walk a well traveled path to a hilltop, where your campfire is waiting. There you’ll make an inner connection with a raven, become entranced by his sound, and see the world through his eyes. You’ll have an opportunity to pose any question, and find the answer within. Connecting with deep inner peace, you’ll also project that feeling forward to your future self, to move through your next challenges with ease.