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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.

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 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.

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

Designed for either muscular or migraine headaches, this research-proven guided meditation for head and neck pain can amplify the positive impact of headache medication, as well as provide stand-alone headache relief for those suffering from chronic headache pain. The combination of expertly layered narrative and calming music reduces head and neck pain by relaxing tense muscles in the upper body, neck and head, as well as offering images of blood vessels opening, widening and evening out.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

A large body of research over the past decade has shown that imagining desired movement in a stroke-affected limb increases motor function recovery, and is a powerful rehabilitation aid, alongside other therapies in programs for recovery after a stroke. The soothing, hypnotic suggestions and powerful affirmations on this audio program are also designed to build confidence, uplift spirits, reinforce self-esteem, and increase patience with the recovery process—psychological factors that are known to be key elements in any effective program of natural treatment for stroke recovery.

Our Health Journeys™ guided meditation for OCD has been specifically designed for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and can be used as stand-alone help for OCD or for use in combination with other recommended treatment approaches, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and medication. Carefully researched and written, this guided meditation for OCD helps reduce anxiety, stabilizes biochemical swings, increases strength and motivation to divert unwanted thoughts and behaviors, and catalyzes hope by envisioning a time of freedom from OCD’s oppressive symptoms.

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.

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.

This calming, hypnotic meditation for chemotherapy fatigue consists of guided imagery and affirmations that are designed to reduce the discomforts of chemotherapy and the side effects of radiation treatment. Regular listening to this meditation for fatigue helps to lessen nausea, anxiety, soreness, discouragement and tiredness, while calming and uplifting the listener in a natural, holistic way. The soothing narrative also provides additional images that support the immune system's natural ability to fight cancer.

This guided meditation for traumatic brain injury provides extra tools beyond standard care for help dealing with a wide range of frustrating concussion symptoms and challenges, such as headache, coordination, balance, memory, concentration, word retrieval, fatigue and sensitivity to light, noise and touch. This meditation for brain injury is also suitable for those with Acquired Brain Injury, stroke and other conditions that affect brain functioning. It offers briefer than usual listening intervals to reduce possible frustration in end-users who can only listen for so long.

This guided meditation for anger teaches listeners how to better respond to debilitating anger and blame by listening repeatedly to simple images and metaphors, such as envisioning the loosening of tight cords that have been wrapped around the heart, constricting its natural energy and flow. The wisdom of this guided meditation for anger is that it sidesteps those mind traps by working directly with body sensation and symbolic images.

This relaxing, empowering natural menopause treatment audio consists of guided imagery and affirmations, to offer an affirming, hypnotic, mind-body tool that delivers natural menopause relief for uncomfortable symptoms and side effects. Recent research has shown that hypnosis and guided imagery can reduce the frequency and intensity of hot flashes, help balance mood, reduce night sweats, increase self-esteem, promote restful sleep and assist with weight loss—in other words, this mind-body program is a natural treatment for menopause.