Heart Disease
Coronary artery disease is the most common cause of death in America for both men and women and is largely modifiable through changing lifestyle habits and patterns. Research has shown that relaxation and guided imagery can help with many forms of heart disease in many ways, by reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, helping people stop smoking, helping them lose weight, and even having a direct effect on heart function. Heart disease is serious and the best way to learn to use imagery to help yourself with it is to use our "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set that will teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. These skills can be used for all the above-mentioned purposes. A quicker introduction, especially for people that don't prefer to read, is to use "Self Healing with Guided Imagery", a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you the three most fundamental self-healing skills. You can also start with "Stress Relief", or "Relaxing into Healing" if you just want to get a taste of what guided imagery has to offer.High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart disease and stroke later in life, and reducing blood pressure can significantly protect you from these undesirable health events. Regular relaxation and guided imagery have been shown in research studies to lower blood pressure, especially in the pre-hypertensive, mildly and moderately hypertensive stages. Imagery can also help you stop smoking, lose weight, develop an exercise habit, and reduce stress, all of which can help with high blood pressure. You can start simply with the "Relaxing into Healing" CD to introduce you to relaxation and imagery, or, better, use our "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set that will teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. A quicker introduction, especially for people that don’t prefer to read, is to use "Self Healing with Guided Imagery", a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you the three most fundamental self-healing skills.
Fertility
There are many causes of infertility but often there is no physical obstruction found. Research suggests that high levels of stress may contribute to the problem and relaxation and guided imagery practices can help people cope better with this problem. Guided imagery can also help women who are experiencing mood swings from fertility drugs and the stress that comes from a sometimes extended trial of unfulfilled hopes and expectations. For infertility, I suggest exploring guided imagery in-depth, using the "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set that will teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. If you prefer to listen rather than read, you may want to start with "Self Healing with Guided Imagery", a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you three self-healing skills you can use to support better health. Another approach would be to simply use the "Stress Relief"or "Relaxing into Healing" CD to reduce your stress and let your system become better balanced.
Insomnia
Sleep disturbances can be the result of excessive stress, anxiety, depression, or medical conditions, and sleep deprivation can make people more vulnerable to developing illness. Relaxation and guided imagery have been shown in medical research to help with sleep disturbances. If you are having trouble sleeping it will help you to learn to relax your body and mind and reduce your stress levels. We have created an audio program based on this research, which clearly shows that mind/body approaches are the ebst long-term solution we have to addressing these problems for most people. “Natural Restful Sleep”will teach you three powerful relaxation and guided imagery processes that have help you get to sleep and stay asleep longer.
To learn a more in-depth approach to understanding and resolving your insomnia, we recommend using the "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set that will teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. If you prefer to listen rather than read, you may want to start with “Self-Healing with Guided Imagery”, a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you three self-healing skills you can use to support better health. Once you are relaxed, you can ignore the invitation to “come back to the outer world” at the end of each guided imagery process.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
IBS is a dysfunction of the bowel resulting in a variety of abdominal symptoms that may include constipation, diarrhea, cramps, bloating, as well as anxiety and fatigue. IBS is often reactive to stress and anxiety, and responds quite well to relaxation and guided imagery. In fact, the research into this common condition indicates that this mind/body approach is the treatment of choice, and works better than any medication. If you have IBS, we recommend that you use our "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set to teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. A quicker introduction, especially for people that don’t prefer to read, is to use “Self-Healing with Guided Imagery”, a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you the three most fundamental self-healing skills. A third alternative is to start with the “Stress Relief” or “Relaxing Into Healing” CDs to introduce you to relaxation and imagery.
Tools for Change
Guided imagery can help in many ways changing health habits like eating, exercising, and stress management. "Relaxing Into Healing" helps you learn to relax, physically and mentally, and begin to relieve stress. "Healing from Within" teaches you to go inside to listen to your body and inner wisdom, identifying changes that will help you move towards better health and more happiness.. "Tools to Change Your Life" will teach you a remarkably effective way to make the changes you decide you want to make in your life, and will help you turn your good intentions into your daily reality, and "Creating Wellness" will help you form a vision of yourself enjoying high level wellness that can inspire, and motivate you throughout the process. The "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing"book and 4 CD set will teach you all of the above skills and provide in-depth guidance through the process of using your imagination to help you get make the changes you desire. Reading the book is highly recommended whatever CDs you decide to use.
Menopausal Symptoms
Hot flashes, poor sleep, poor concentration, and mood swings are common symptoms in the menopause years and can be a significant source of discomfort and distress. Stress often makes these symptoms more common and severe, and not surprisingly, research shows that relaxation and guided imagery practices can reduce the intensity of these symptoms. Typically, a regular practice of imagery once or twice a day for 1-3 weeks will begin to help. You can start simply with the "Relaxing into Healing" CD to introduce you to relaxation and imagery, or, better, use our "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set that will teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. A quicker introduction, especially for people that don’t prefer to read, is to use "Self Healing with Guided Imagery", a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you the three most fundamental self-healing skills.
Premenstrual Syndrome
Premenstrual Syndrome can include uncomfortable water retention and weight gain, headaches, breast tenderness, and increased emotional vulnerability and mood swings that can last for up to a week or more before menstrual periods. It can also be accompanied by dysmennorhea (menstrual pain). Almost 85% of all women have some symptoms of PMS, while 10% are disabled by it. Research studies have demonstrated that relaxation and guided imagery can help relieve many of the symptoms of PMS and reduce disability and absenteeism in women who have it severely. We recommend learning to use guided imagery in depth for this condition, using the "Guided Imagery for Self-Healing" book and 4 CD set to teach you the nine essential skills of using guided imagery to help stimulate healing from within. The book will explain the process, review the science behind it, and coach you through the common questions that people have, while the CD set guides you through the 9 essential guided imagery skills taught in the book. A quicker introduction, especially if you prefer not to read, is to use "Self Healing with Guided Imagery", a 2 CD set featuring Dr. Andrew Weil. The first CD explains mind/body healing and guided imagery while the second teaches you the three most fundamental self-healing skills. A third alternative is to start with either the "Stress Relief" or the "Relaxing into Healing" CD to get a sense of what guided imagery may have to offer you.
Surgery
A great deal of medical research shows that mentally preparing for the procedure with relaxation and guided imagery helps to not only relieve anxiety, but to significantly reduce complications, shorten hospital stays, minimize post-operative pain, and even reduce the time it takes to do the operation. Our “Preparing for Surgery” CD includes all the suggestions that have been research proven, plus a great deal more, to help you feel more positive about your procedure and speed your recovery. You can also use this CD for any kind of invasive procedure by simply substituting the name of your procedure for the word “surgery” in the CD. Another alternative, especially if you feel that you “just don’t want to even think about surgery” is to use our “Relaxing Into Healing” CD to learn to relax which will help you go through your procedure more easily without having to really focus on it.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation is a medical tool that is effective in treating certain kinds of cancer. Research studies have shown that guided imagery can help relieve anxiety, depression, discomfort, and fatigue from radiation therapy and is superior to simple relaxation alone. Our "Optimizing Cancer Treatments" CD has a special script for people undergoing radiation, and the "Fighting Cancer from Within" book and 5 CD set are specifically designed to help cancer patients work from within to support their own healing in a number of ways. The set addresses not only radiation therapy but issues such as fear of cancer, making treatment decisions, preparing for and recovering from surgery, making the most of chemotherapy, creating healing imagery, and redeveloping wellness after cancer treatment.