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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 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 rheumatoid arthritis or lupus consists of guided imagery and affirmations designed to help reduce inflammation and fatigue, relieve pain and distress, relieve and lift the spirits of those suffering from these autoimmune conditions. This meditation for arthritis features hypnotic imagery of inflamed joints subsiding and overly zealous immune cells calming down. The guided imagery for arthritis is also laced with suggestions to lift mood, reduce fatigue and encourage feelings of peace, calm and gentleness toward the self.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

This audio was created with the help of recovering alcoholics and addicts, those who belong to various 12-step groups, chemical dependency counselors, and chemical dependency professionals who understand the importance of partnering meditation and addiction. Listen to this program to reduce the craving for drugs and alcohol by encouraging the development of powerful, self-calming techniques that support impulse control naturally. Pump up your motivation and perseverance with hypnotic mental images of the body restoring itself to health, with vitality and a general zest for living.

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 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.

Guided imagery is a holistic, mind-body technique that consists of healing words and hypnotic images, set to soothing music, to pump up motivation to eat in healthy ways and encourage listeners to stay on track. Additional images in this weight loss meditation generate a sense of love and gratitude to heighten serotonin in the bloodstream, which in turn reduces appetite and increases motivation for healthy eating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Empowering and confidence-building, this guided imagery audio program doubled weight loss in a placebo controlled pilot study.

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.

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 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.

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.

Esta meditación permite dirigir la imaginación, percepción y sensación de la audiencia hacia la reducción de tumores en el organismo, en donde las células que combaten el cáncer triunfan sobre las cancerosas, mientras que un manto protector, tan divino como terrenal, se despliega empática y afectivamente rodeando al individuo. El resultado es la disipación del miedo y el desánimo, incrementando así la esperanza, la motivación y la positividad.

This guided meditation for IBS and inflammatory bowel disease consists of state-of-the-art, research-based guided imagery and affirmations to help people successfully manage and reduce the distressing, painful symptoms of IBS and IBD, naturally and holistically. The guided meditation for IBS is also designed to work well with more traditional treatment approaches, and is appropriate for conditions known as spastic colon, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

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.

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.