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Product Description ------------------- This meditation for relaxation & offers guided imagery is for daily relaxing or for facing any stressful situation with centered calm. It will help with general anxiety as well as panic attacks, but it can also be used to simply promote and sustain feelings of peace, balance, uplift and optimism. 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 2-3 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. Written and narrated by noted mind-body, holistic pioneer Belleruth Naparstek and scored to the exquisite, immersive music of Steven Mark Kohn. The images on this relaxation meditation audio heighten feelings of love and safety, pump up serotonin and promote a state of energized calm. It should be also noted that this very meditation for relaxation and is the first half of a research-proven imagery protocol used by veterans suffering from persistent posttraumatic stress, and yielded dramatic outcomes for survivors of combat and sexual trauma (the second half of the protocol was our Healing Trauma imagery). (Running Time: 38 min.) Review ------ Downloaded the MP3. A fast & easy download. This is such a beautiful & amazingly comforting CD. Belleruth has such a gift to comfort others. I am thankful for having this wonderful aid. March 2011 --RN (reprinted from Journeys website) Dr. Naperstek's voice, her carefully considered language and the inspired guided imagery have helped to change me into a positive, happy person. I carry the CD with me when I travel, like a Teddy bear, to bolster me and keep me centered. It's also an anchor for my successfull weight-loss program, the best CD of which is also by Dr. Naperstek. November 2006 --Carol This CD has been the most amazing and spiritual experience of my life. It has helped me through a challenge, and I feel personally I wouldn't have made it through this challenge if I hadn't had this CD. July 2006 --Donna P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Author ---------------- Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD Psychotherapist, author and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek is the creator of the popular Journeys guided imagery audio series. Her first book, Staying Well with Guided Imagery (Warner) is a widely used primer on imagery and healing. Her second book, Your Sixth Sense (Harper Collins) has been translated into 9 languages and called one of the most thoughtful and sophisticated looks at imagery and intuition. Her latest book on imagery and posttraumatic stress, Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal (Bantam Dell), won the Spirituality & Top 50 Books Award and was released in paperback January of 2006. Highlighted in the 20th anniversary edition of their seminal book, Courage to Heal, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis call Invisible Heroes, the most useful book for trauma survivors to be published in the last decade . As Prevention Magazine noted, she has been quietly creating an underground revolution among mainstream and mental bureaucracies, by persuading major institutions such as the U.S. Veteran s Administration, the U.S. Dept of Defense, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, United Care, Oxford Plan, scores of s and nearly 2000 hospitals and recovery centers to distribute her guided imagery s, in many instances free of charge to recipients. Recently she has been developing -friendly resources with the help of the U.S. Army and the Ft. Sill Resiliency Center, and DCoE (Defense Centers of Excellence) has declared guided imagery one of their Twelve Promising Practices. Her audio programs have been involved in over two dozen clinical trials, with nearly a dozen studies completed to date. Efficacy has been established for several psychological and medical challenges, most recently for sexual trauma and combat stress at Duke University Medical Center/Durham Veterans Administration Hospital. Naparstek received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. She maintained her psychotherapy practice for over 30 years and for several years taught graduate students at The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University. Earlier in her career, she supervised psychiatry residents at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School and was Chief of Consultation & Education at the Woodburn Center for Community Mental in Fairfax County, VA. She also did a brief stint as a musical comedy actress at Second City and The Tip Top Tap of the Allerton Hotel in Chicago, and says that her musical comedy skills sometimes come in handy for teaching. See more ( javascript:void(0) )