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Guided imagery for chemotherapy is a holistic, mind-body therapy that consists of healing words and images, set to soothing music, to achieve specific healing goals. Repeated listening once or twice a day for two to three weeks ensures maximum impact on physical comfort and positive attitude. This particular audio program has been distributed by oncology nurses in chemo units nationwide. The immersive, hypnotic, calming guided imagery and affirmations on this chemotherapy meditation program provide a sense of peace, control and mastery during a difficult time.

This guided meditation contains hypnotic suggestions, healing guided imagery and affirmations for boosting your immune system naturally. It is designed to promote general wellness and resilience; support the body’s normal, ongoing protection against any encroaching bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells; and even target cold and flu prevention. If you are interested in an effective immune system meditation to enhance wellness and prevent disease, this combination of superb cellular imagery with exquisite music is the holistic guided imagery tool you are looking for.

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to provide natural help with relaxation and self-calming. Repeated listening once or twice a day for two to three weeks ensures maximum impact. A separate track of affirmations shows how to relax in a briefer format, with positive statements designed for listening on the go or even while driving. The images on this relaxation meditation audio heighten feelings of love and safety, pump up serotonin and promote a state of energized calm.

These relaxation exercises for self-mastery were created to teach self-regulation skills, self-mastery techniques, and relaxation training to soldiers dealing with occupational and combat stress. They are useful for mastery over any kind of everyday living. Similar to our Stress Hardiness segments, these guided meditation and self-mastery exercises teach simple but powerful self-regulation skills, to train warfighters and military support personnel how to stay calm under pressure and maintain focus and cognitive flexibility.

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.

This guided meditation for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus consists of guided imagery and affirmations designed to help reduce inflammation and fatigue, relieve pain and distress, relieve and lift the spirits of those suffering from these autoimmune conditions. This meditation for arthritis features hypnotic imagery of inflamed joints subsiding and overly zealous immune cells calming down. The guided imagery for arthritis is also laced with suggestions to lift mood, reduce fatigue and encourage feelings of peace, calm and gentleness toward the self.

This guided meditation for ADHD and improving focus and concentration is for anyone looking to successfully marshal the coherent, focused energy needed to learn, work, or reach an intended goal, in a natural, holistic way.

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.

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 fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue treatment was made in collaboration with physicians, specialists and patients using, the latest research and cutting edge information on causes and treatment for fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue (CFS). It is designed to help alleviate symptoms, promote healing and provide emotional relief. Separate tracks are expertly and holistically crafted to ease discomfort, reduce fatigue, enhance restful sleep, heighten energy and maintain emotional balance naturally.

This meditation for pregnancy and childbirth offers powerful and effective guided imagery and affirmations on how to best prepare for carrying and delivering a baby. This is a natural, holistic, mind-body tool for anyone anticipating a pregnancy or expecting a baby, to help with the discomforts, anxieties and unwanted symptoms that can accompany this incomparable life experience. The pregnancy meditation imagery inspires confidence in the body and gratitude for it, while promoting relaxation and feelings of safety, protection and support.

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to pump up motivation to eat in healthy ways and encourage listeners to stay on track. Additional images in this weight loss meditation generate a sense of love and gratitude to heighten serotonin in the bloodstream, which in turn reduces appetite and increases motivation for healthy eating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Empowering and confidence-building, this guided imagery audio program doubled weight loss in a placebo controlled pilot study.

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.

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 for improving self-confidence and self-esteem allows the listener to envision success while practicing a mental rehearsal of an anticipated, anxiety-producing activity, such as test-taking, work performance, sports, public speaking, auditions, social engagements or some other potentially anxiety-producing activity. By replacing anxiety and fear of failure with an energized, calm sense of mastery and flow, a powerful lesson is delivered on how to gain self-confidence and improve self-esteem in the pleasantest of ways.

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.

Listening to this relaxing guided meditation for heart health is a powerful, evidence-based practice for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, holistically and naturally. The hypnotic suggestions, soothing narrative, and powerful affirmations on this research-based audio program combine seamlessly to deliver a state-of-the-art guided meditation for lowering blood pressure and guided imagery to lower cholesterol, with methods that have been repeatedly shown to help reduce arterial plaque and support heart health.

This guided imagery shows listeners natural ways to fight cancer with a narrative that imagines tumors shrinking and fighter cells triumphing over cancer cells, while a protective cushion of love and support surrounds the listener. The result is a dissipation of fear and discouragement, and an upturn in hope, motivation and positivity. A separate track of affirmations bolsters the healing, hypnotic cancer meditation with brief, positive suggestions in a format that can be heard and enjoyed while engaged in other activities, including driving.

We created this two-part guided imagery audio with noted cardiothoracic surgeon Mehmet Oz at New York-Presbyterian Hospital to accelerate healing, reduce pain and depression, and motivate exercise and healthy new habits, while cultivating optimism and patience with the recovery process.

This research-proven collection of mind-body exercises offers quick, effective relaxation techniques for stress in first responders, soldiers or anyone engaged in dangerous or traumatizing work. Repeated listening to these relaxation techniques for stress teaches self-regulation and self-calming skills to police, EMTs, firefighters, soldiers, emergency room personnel and journalists, reminding them how to remain relaxed under pressure and deliver peak, focused performance during difficult and even chaotic situations.