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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.

In this powerful, hypnotic, research-proven guided meditation for smoking cessation, positive encouragement to quit smoking naturally comes from imagining the lungs healing and toxins clearing from the body, while capacity grows each day for taking in more and more rich, energizing, life-giving oxygen. In addition to anticipating the return of a fuller sense of smell and taste, listeners learn important self-calming and relaxation skills on this smoking cessation meditation to sustain impulse control when the urge to smoke threatens to impede progress.

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

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.

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.

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 mix of six brief, favorite-pick relaxation and meditation exercises offers a convenient and portable toolkit of quick relaxation techniques to maintain emotional balance and relieve stress fast. These guided imagery and meditation exercises for stress provide speedy access to a peaceful, healing mind state—especially useful when time is short and pressure is mounting. Different meditation exercises will appeal at different times, depending on inner mood and external circumstances. Mix and match however you wish.

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 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.

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 set of four separate fertility meditation exercises was created to provide holistic, mind-body tools to help with infertility challenges and boost desired results. These fertility meditation exercises are carefully and sensitively designed to help people let go of trying to control the process with excessive internal pressure to get pregnant, and instead hold the image that there is a baby meant for them in their future. This makes the fertility meditations appropriate for whatever might evolve—even an adoption outcome—as well as for conception and pregnancy.

This guided imagery and affirmations audio for natural allergy relief contains hypnotic suggestions, soothing guided imagery and powerful affirmations to reduce allergy symptoms, using the mind-body connection to help calm and treat an allergic reaction. Designed to help with allergy symptoms in the lungs, head, nasal passageways, digestive tract or skin, this carefully researched audio program, made in consultation with allergists and focus groups of allergy sufferers, can augment the positive impact of medication and more traditional approaches.

Belleruth Naparstek’s audio guides you on how to get ready for surgery by imagining a successful, safe and comfortable operation and recovery, complete with guided imagery suggestions and images of all the desired outcomes, including reduced bleeding, lower use of pain medication and fast mending with minimal discomfort. Ideal for hip surgery recovery and shoulder surgery recovery, this highly acclaimed mind-body meditation is particularly helpful for the more difficult and extended process of recovery from knee surgery.

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 guided meditation for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue treatment was made in collaboration with physicians, specialists and patients using, the latest research and cutting edge information on causes and treatment for fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue (CFS). It is designed to help alleviate symptoms, promote healing and provide emotional relief. Separate tracks are expertly and holistically crafted to ease discomfort, reduce fatigue, enhance restful sleep, heighten energy and maintain emotional balance naturally.

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.

Through relaxing around and through physical or emotional pain, refocusing the mind, and marshalling serotonin-elevating images of love, gratitude, safety and peace, muscle aches, joint pain can subside, minimized or even transformed. This empowering program has been found effective for many kinds of chronic pain management, for conditions as diverse as pancreatitis, fibromyalgia, muscle spasm, emotional pain, joint pain relief, headache, gastric distress and back pain.

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.

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.

Offering affirmations and guided imagery for diabetes, this recording has been endorsed and distributed by AADE, the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Embedded in this soothing, hypnotic meditation for diabetes are suggestions designed to help lower blood sugar naturally. The narrative invokes images in a relaxed, focused state of mind, of the body's receptivity to insulin, whether from an underutilized, natural supply or from medications, or some combination of both.