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How do you feel about your body? The way you see yourself, and your attitude about your body, greatly influence your self-esteem, your emotional well-being, and even your physical health. If you’re interested in improving your health, recovering from illness, losing weight, or becoming more fit, never underestimate the importance of your body image. And if you struggle with an eating disorder, you’ll want to pay especially careful attention to this issue.

If you've ever felt an inner connection with Francis of Assisi, or would like to experience one, this guided inner journey can help awaken that connection within you. Take a walk with Francis through a meadow by a mountain stream, pray with him, and receive his blessing of love. A relaxing and peaceful meditation that will leave you feeling touched with grace.

Feelings of shyness are based upon deeply held beliefs that others won’t like us, won’t understand us, that we have little in common, and if we reach out, we’ll ultimately be rejected and hurt. But everyone can learn the simple skills of listening and talking to others, and with a little practice, shy people can learn to reach out and make new friends. This guided meditation will help you get over the initial fear of connecting to others by visualizing yourself in social situations, easily meeting people, and enjoying the results.

Imagine a column of light, descending from the highest heavens, through the sky, through your ceiling, and into your room. This healing light, full of love and whispered messages from above, transforms itself into a river, flowing at your feet. As the program unfolds, you’ll immerse yourself in the sacred water and receive blessings beyond measure. Then you’ll envision yourself touching into the river into the future, through times of peace, and times of challenge, drawing support and encouragement, whenever you need it.

Release painful feelings, and grieve in your own timing. It’s common to feel as though we have unfinished communication with the one we’ve lost, either because we’ve lost them suddenly, or because there wasn’t a good flow of communication with them when they were alive. In this tender guided meditation by Max Highstein, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with your loved one, say whatever you may need to say, ask your most important questions, and hear and receive what your loved one has to share to you.

Guided meditation takes you to the finest hotel for the night. When you’ve been traveling and you’re exhausted, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of crawling into an exceptionally comfortable bed, in a hushed suite, in a luxury hotel. In this program you’ll tap into that feeling of complete comfort and total relaxation, to help you deeply relax and easily fall asleep, no matter where you are.

Peaceful guided imagery and nature sounds lull you to sleep. In this relaxing program, with gentle narration, soft music, and the soothing nature sounds, you’ll find yourself walking along a mountain stream on a crisp fall afternoon. You’ll enjoy the sights and sounds of this enchanting setting, and soon find your campsite waiting. As the evening stars come out, you’ll settle safe and sound into your comfy sleeping bag.

Patience allows us to meet challenges peacefully, get along easily with others, accomplish long-term goals, and enjoy life. With patience, we can handle bad drivers and computer glitches without tearing out our hair, master a musical instrument, or raise a child with our sanity in tact. But early on, most of us also absorb a variety of negative patterns and beliefs that undermine our patience. Use this guided meditation to uncover and release old programming, and bring patience and peace into your most challenging situations, and all of your life.

Judgment prevents us from giving and receiving love. It robs us of the ability to experience real compassion. And, it keeps us isolated, lonely, and stuck. Intuitive guide and spiritual facilitator Max Highstein explains where judgment comes from, what it does, and how we can stop doing it. Then he leads listeners on a powerful, deep guided imagery meditation that provides the structure and focus to help you make a shift, release judgment, and open to love.

Use this guided meditation to tap the power of prayer for your own healing, for resolution of any situation you may face, or to relieve suffering of any kind. Journey into the heavens to a temple of light, where you'll meet with angels, masters, healers, and loved ones, waiting to channel love from the Creator into you. Receive their grace and their messages of peace and healing. Then receive God's love directly within your heart, as the Creator reads your deepest prayers and responds with grace for your highest good.

In Sacred Stillness, you’ll visit the high desert, and experience its mystery. You’ll walk a well traveled path to a hilltop, where your campfire is waiting. There you’ll make an inner connection with a raven, become entranced by his sound, and see the world through his eyes. You’ll have an opportunity to pose any question, and find the answer within. Connecting with deep inner peace, you’ll also project that feeling forward to your future self, to move through your next challenges with ease.

Do you experience moments of paralyzing fear, panic, or anxiety that are out of proportion to situations at hand? When fear takes over, it impairs our judgment, makes us miserable, and causes us to make poor decisions. This program offers an effective way to reduce your fear and approach life in a clearer, more fully present and comfortable way.

Engage your mind-body connection to release or reduce your pain with this gentle guided meditation. In this healing meditation, you’ll invite your pain it to communicate to you about its reason for being. It may have new information for you about your body, your feelings, your relationships, your life, any of which may be contributing factors. Once it has an opportunity to say what it’s been trying to tell you, it may no longer serve a purpose. That’s when you’ll apply the imagery in this program to make it dissolve and disappear.

Unload your worries, and send them away for good. Then re-envision your life, worry free. Worry much? Worrying casts a dark shadow over everything in our lives. And it’s often a pattern so deep in our unconscious mind that we hardly notice doing it. We all know that worrying does absolutely nothing to help us. But what it does do is keep us from enjoying life, keep us from recognizing opportunities, and keep us in a state of mind that tends to attract more things to worry about. It also leads to depression, and makes us not so nice to be around.

Bitterness is a state of mind that colors the way we see others and ourselves and limits our potential for loving relationships. When we are repeatedly injured or beaten down by life, we adopt a bitter, cynical, and pessimistic point of view as a way of protecting ourselves from further disappointment. But at some point, we have to reopen to the possibility that the world is a good place. With expertly crafted narration and evocative background music, this guided inner journey enlightens, encourages healing from within, and helps us chart a new, more positive course.

Enjoy a peaceful night’s sleep in the third installment in this series. This is the third installment in our Sleep Well Tonight series. In this lovely guided meditation, you’ll take an evening walk along a country lane, and find your way to an old farmhouse, recently converted for guests. You’ll have the house all to yourself tonight! From your comfy bed, you’ll enjoy the sound of crickets softly chirping outside.

Let go of the past and build high self esteem. Use this program to let go of the past, and develop high self esteem! Self esteem is all about the way you value, appreciate, and treat yourself. If you truly believe, without a doubt, that you’re a good, worthy, and deserving person, then you’ll tend to attract people who will value and appreciate you, and treat you well. But if you believe on some level that you are bad, unworthy, and undeserving, then you’ll attract and opt into situations where you’re treated indifferently, or worse.

Do you carry around guilt for something that happened - something that you can’t do anything about? Carrying guilt, for whatever reason, does you and everyone concerned absolutely no good. In this guided meditation you’ll have the opportunity to fully release guilt from the past and free yourself. Use this program to forgive yourself, let go of the past, and move on with your life.

Lightbeing is a colorful journey to another world, where healing begins in a crystal structure full of light and sound. Your host, a gentle being from a beautiful planet, graciously guides you into a deeply relaxed, uplifted state of consciousness. Max Highstein says, "Some time ago I wanted to incorporate sound and color therapy into a guided meditation, and the result was Lightbeing. You may notice that the music changes key with each color - that's part of the technique... This is a journey that is fun for kids as well as anyone who wants to feel a little younger."

Healing is an individual experience, and often a mysterious one. But most doctors recognize the mind-body component of healing and believe that attitude, prayer, and meditation can make a difference. With gentle narration and an exceptionally healing music score, The Healing Well helps you tap into your own inner resources, to assist you in healing. With this guided journey, you may find your own reservoir of inner strength, and use it toward recovery, or greater health.