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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.

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.

Imagine a column of light, descending from the highest heavens, through the sky, through your ceiling, and into your room. This healing light, full of love and whispered messages from above, transforms itself into a river, flowing at your feet. As the program unfolds, you’ll immerse yourself in the sacred water and receive blessings beyond measure. Then you’ll envision yourself touching into the river into the future, through times of peace, and times of challenge, drawing support and encouragement, whenever you need it.

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.

The Healing Waterfall is waiting for you on a beautiful mountainside. Deeply relax while you slowly step forward into the pool, as the water heals and soothes every part of you. A perennial best seller, this luxurious, gentle meditation with its rich, soft music has been adored by many, many people over the years.

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.

Peaceful guided imagery and nature sounds lull you to sleep. In this relaxing program, with gentle narration, soft music, and the soothing nature sounds, you’ll find yourself walking along a mountain stream on a crisp fall afternoon. You’ll enjoy the sights and sounds of this enchanting setting, and soon find your campsite waiting. As the evening stars come out, you’ll settle safe and sound into your comfy sleeping bag.

Wherever you find yourself on your path, this powerfully moving program can help deepen your connection to Jesus, open your inner vision, and expand your heart. Whether you relate to Jesus as a spiritual teacher, great master, or path to God, this course will help you know him, and yourself, more completely than ever before. Each guided meditation is beautifully composed with gentle narration, soft background music, and soothing ocean waves. They offer a bridge to the spiritual world, where you can connect deeply with Jesus and experience deep peace.

Whenever we experience events that are overwhelmingly painful, part of ourself is left in the past, unresolved, almost in a kind of suspended animation, until such time as we’re able to heal and release the pain. Carrying the memory of a traumatic event is a bit like living in a house with a room that’s closed off. We never want to enter that room because of the painful feelings it holds, but we can’t clean it up and remodel it without going through the door.

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.

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.

This program, designed for those serious about making positive changes, helps us go deep within and establish new programming. The guided imagery in Positive Thinking introduces two techniques that are simple to learn and use and draw upon positive imagery from your own life that's already meaningful to you. If you've wanted to make changes and think more positively, but find yourself stuck in a rut of negativity, this program can help you.

Enjoy a peaceful night’s sleep in the third installment in this series. This is the third installment in our Sleep Well Tonight series. In this lovely guided meditation, you’ll take an evening walk along a country lane, and find your way to an old farmhouse, recently converted for guests. You’ll have the house all to yourself tonight! From your comfy bed, you’ll enjoy the sound of crickets softly chirping outside.

We may believe we’re a soul in a human body, having human experiences. But when life gets challenging, it can be hard to remember that! Soul Overview helps you gain the higher perspective of your soul. From that vantage point, you can see your life in a new way, with deeper insight and understanding. Soul Overview Part One takes you on an inner journey into your soul. There you’ll connect with your soul group - your true family - feel unified with them, and receive their love. Soul Overview Part Two builds upon the experience of Part One.

A Master Specialist is waiting to offer you information and guidance. This guided meditation will help you learn how to access higher guidance for any specific area of concern or situation you currently face. Your higher consciousness offers a rich source of information and support - a deeper and wider resource than your ordinary intellect can hold. After choosing a specific question or topic you'd like input on, you'll experience a deep relaxation, then travel to a particular place where you'll meet your Master Specialist.

Angels have captured the imagination of human beings for eons. And the imagination is a great place to begin, because that's our bridge to the intuition. That's why guided imagery works so beautifully to tap into the world of angels, all around us. In this inner journey, you're led step by step into a beautiful spiritual landscape, where you can meet and spend time with an angel, and discover for yourself. They're waiting....

Journey on the back of a gentle old horse, through The Healing Forest. After a complete body relaxation, receive the healing energies of the forest, heaven, and earth. Then receive a special message before continuing on your ride.

An early-morning visit to the beach brings you the sand, the sea, and the salt air - an escape to a place where you can forget about life's problems, deeply relax, and experience healing and inner peace. Wading in, you’re embraced by gentle waves as layer after layer of tension melts away, and you feel more and more at peace. A group of dolphins comes to visit and celebrate your healing, and one takes you on a magical ride. Experience yourself as pure energy, floating free, with this gentle guided meditation at the seashore.

When you’re feeling yucky - whether for you that means sad, angry, fearful, guilty, hurt, or some other flavor of yuck - it’s like living under a dark cloud. You may have assumed that once the cloud sets in, there’s nothing to do but hope and wait until you feel better. But that’s not the case. Clearing is the process of releasing any kind of negativity around you or within you and getting back to yourself. Once you know how to do it, there’s nothing stopping you from giving yourself that clean refresh whenever you need to!