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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 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.

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.

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.

This guided meditation for radiation therapy is designed to ease treatment side effects and symptoms, such as fatigue, burns, soreness and other discomforts, while at the same time reducing anxiety and encouraging a positive attitude toward healing. The program's encouraging, hypnotic messages and comforting images, combined with soothing music, promote relaxation and amplify coping ability while targeting the reduction of radiation therapy side effects.

Esta meditación crea una atmósfera rica en protección, seguridad y apoyo, con imágenes que son lo suficientemente evocadoras y música relajante para poder competir contra los pensamientos obsesivos con gran éxito. Y así reemplazarlos, atrayendo la mente, el cuerpo, y el espíritu hacia lo más profundo con un sueño reparador. Esta meditación ha sido nuestro mayor éxito de ventas durante los últimos 25 años.

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.

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.

This superb sampler of brief, classic mindfulness meditation audio tracks is an ideal resource for people on the go with limited time, who still want to enjoy the benefits of a regular practice of meditation made easy. It also provides an opportunity for beginning meditators to try out different kinds of calming, centering, healing meditation methods, in a user-friendly way, neither too time consuming nor demanding.

This guided meditation for treating asthma naturally contains hypnotic suggestions, soothing guided imagery and powerful affirmations for a holistic approach to symptom relief from asthma, COPD, allergies or other breathing problems. Designed to encourage deeper calmer breathing, this hypnosis for asthma contains powerful suggestions to help relax tense airways, reduce inflammation, and lower a histamine response, while helping listeners feel steadier, stronger and less reactive to the environment. Meditation can amplify the positive impact of asthma treatments and medications.

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 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 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.

Este audio ofrece una meditación guiada de relajación y bienestar para el descanso diario o para enfrentar con enfoque calmado a cualquier situación estresante. Ayudará con la ansiedad en general, así como con los ataques de pánico, pero también puede ser usada para simplemente promover y mantener sentimientos de paz, equilibrio emocional, ánimo y optimismo.

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.

La visualización dirigida es una técnica mental-corporal-espiritual basada en estudios de investigación, la cual utiliza palabras terapéuticas e imágenes hipnotizantes acompañadas de suaves melodías que invitan a la relajación. Se ha demostrado que contribuye a mejorar la actitud y la motivación, siendo capaz de producir además cambios significativos que impactan positivamente al organismo.

This guided imagery audio for bone marrow transplant recovery uses powerful metaphors of rescue, rebirth and resurrection to cushion the rigors of stem cell transplant recovery. Accurate cellular imagery complements the body's natural ability to fight disease and restore health, while other targeted, hypnotic messages help with bone marrow transplant side effects and pain, to naturally and holistically provide an ideal accompaniment to the medicines and procedures of traditional chemotherapy treatment.

Diseñadas para contrarrestar el efecto nocivo de pesadillas y regresiones recurrentes (flashbacks), las sugerencias hipnóticas y terapéuticas transmiten imágenes positives, inspiradoras y enaltecedoras para calar hasta lo más profundo del ser. El propósito de los elementos adicionales consiste en reducir la intensidad de los ataques de ansiedad y de pánico, así como la ira y la furia; otros, en cambio, reorientan la tendencia hacia una conducta evasiva, de desconexión con la realidad y de aislamiento.

This relaxing audio set of positive affirmations and guided meditation for dialysis patients is designed to ease discomfort, lower anxiety and fatigue, and reduce possible psychological side effects associated with hemodialysis, while increasing energy, hope and positive mood. A clinically tested segment of guided imagery for dialysis also contains specific hypnotic suggestions to help keep blood pressure stable and support motivation for necessary dietary and lifestyle changes.

Esta meditación te guía para que vuelvas a experimentar sentimientos de amor, esperanza, superación y gratitud, te brinda imágenes llenas de inspiración donde en todo tu alrededor sientas apoyo y ánimo. Esta experiencia es simple pero muy poderosa y al escucharla diariamente puede llegar a despertar sentimientos de amor propio, de esperanza y de compromiso con la vida. También tienes la opción de escuchar otro audio con afirmaciones positivas, breves pero eficaces, llenas de confianza y autoestima, las cuales puedes escuchar mientras viajas.