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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.

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.

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 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.

A large body of research over the past decade has shown that imagining desired movement in a stroke-affected limb increases motor function recovery, and is a powerful rehabilitation aid, alongside other therapies in programs for recovery after a stroke. The soothing, hypnotic suggestions and powerful affirmations on this audio program are also designed to build confidence, uplift spirits, reinforce self-esteem, and increase patience with the recovery process—psychological factors that are known to be key elements in any effective program of natural treatment for stroke recovery.

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.

This guided meditation for ADHD and improving focus and concentration is for anyone looking to successfully marshal the coherent, focused energy needed to learn, work, or reach an intended goal, in a natural, holistic way.

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.

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 guided meditation for caregiver stress is designed to offer relief, comfort and self-care for caregivers who may be growing weary and disheartened from looking after a family member or friend in need of taxing levels of physical or emotional care. It is also useful for professional providers experiencing the occupational stress of caregiver burnout. This includes reminders of the caregiver’s strength, resourcefulness and tenacity; a sense of being surrounded by protection, support and appreciation; and an emphasis on the need for self-consideration and self care for caregivers.

This audio is a general wellness and holistic healing meditation that promotes peace, relaxation, uplift and resilience of mind, body and spirit. By combining guided imagery and affirmations with soothing, immersive music, this guided meditation for wellness maintains and supports physical and emotional health seamlessly and naturally. Physiologically accurate imagery of the normal cycle of cell loss and healthy regrowth are translated into metaphors from the natural world of a healing light, breeze and mist, all designed to clear away unhealthy or outworn tissue.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

This audio set features four different, state-of-the-art exercises of guided meditation for relationships, all designed to strengthen and renew the bonds of love and maintain vitality and vibrancy in your feelings and interaction. Each hypnotic, immersive track of this powerful guided imagery for relationships offers a different mind-body approach to removing barriers and deepening your connection. Listeners are guided to explore their attitudes and interaction non-judgmentally, promoting empathy for their partner and allowing for the release of old hurts and fears.

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.

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.