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 two to three 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. The images on this relaxation meditation audio heighten feelings of love and safety, pump up serotonin and promote a state of energized calm.

This guided imagery audio program for depression can be used as a stand-alone therapy or an adjunctive treatment alongside more traditional approaches of psychotherapy and/or medication. It has even been found helpful to people dealing with bipolar illness. The soothing, hypnotic narrative evokes imagery of the heavy fog of depression lifting, as tamped down energy is liberated and released, so that you can reunite with your own inner strength and again feel hope, love, motivation and possibility. For those who wish to try treating depression naturally, this is worth trying first.

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.

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 guided meditation contains hypnotic suggestions, healing guided imagery and affirmations for boosting your immune system naturally. It is designed to promote general wellness and resilience; support the body’s normal, ongoing protection against any encroaching bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells; and even target cold and flu prevention. If you are interested in an effective immune system meditation to enhance wellness and prevent disease, this combination of superb cellular imagery with exquisite music is the holistic guided imagery tool you are looking for.

Our sleep meditation helps those who wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep, and it's perfect for people who simply want to doze off faster. For a surprising number of listeners, it eventually replaces sleep medication. Repeated listening at bedtime for two to three weeks ensures maximum effectiveness. The Health Journeys' guided sleep meditation audio combats insomnia and provides deep, restorative sleep by creating a rich atmosphere of protection, with images that are evocative enough to successfully compete with the brain chatter that keeps us awake.

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 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 positive affirmations audio program offers positive statements to help combat negative thinking and set the stage for a desired attitude and behavioral change, naturally and organically. Repeated listening to this positive self-talk once or twice a day for two to three weeks can result in profound, holistic personal change. In fact, this positive affirmations audio program can be listened to while driving, dressing, folding laundry, or shaving, and it will still have a powerful, cumulative impact.

This guided meditation for treating asthma naturally contains hypnotic suggestions, soothing guided imagery and powerful affirmations for a holistic approach to symptom relief from asthma, COPD, allergies or other breathing problems. Designed to encourage deeper calmer breathing, this hypnosis for asthma contains powerful suggestions to help relax tense airways, reduce inflammation, and lower a histamine response, while helping listeners feel steadier, stronger and less reactive to the environment. Meditation can amplify the positive impact of asthma treatments and medications.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Meditation makes you more productive because it lets you earn back time. For each minute you spend meditating, you'll earn around nine minutes back, as Chris Bailey - author of The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus - will show in this candid and counter-intuitive guide to the productivity benefits of meditation.

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that provides startling insights into proper nutrition. In addition to his five basic steps - a set of lifelong habits that will improve your health and control your insulin levels - Dr. Fung explains how to use intermittent fasting to break the cycle of insulin resistance and reach a healthy weight - for good.

Mel Robbins is back! The international bestselling phenomenon and creator of The Five Second Rule and Kick Ass with Mel Robbins returns to help you tackle the single biggest obstacle you face: fear. This life-changing Audible Original features a powerful mix of one-on-one life-coaching sessions and a personal narrative with vital take-aways that you can start using immediately.

In Atomic Attraction Christopher Canwell takes us on a journey through the dark waters of attraction. What turns women on? What makes them choose one man over another? And how can you become truly desirable and attractive? This book answers these questions by combining the latest scientific research with real-life case studies to show you, the listener, how to ignite the fires of attraction and captivate those around you.

Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

95 percent of decisions are based on feelings. Not logic. Not rational thought. Feelings. Can you feel the pull of emotions, hunger, guilt, pain, jealously, depression, and everything else weighing on every decision that you make? Business owners, entrepreneurs, regular people looking to get in shape, anyone with a goal that isn't terrified of tough love - you need to listen to F--k Your Feelings - as soon as possible! In this audiobook you'll learn how to use personal mind control techniques to control the way your brain is wired and much more.

Although clinical research has been conducted on narcissism as a disorder, less is known about its effects on victims who are in toxic relationships with partners with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Individuals with this disorder engage in chronic devaluation and manipulation of their partners, a psychological and emotional phenomenon known as "narcissistic abuse". Unfortunately, the full extent of what narcissistic abuse entails is not taught in any psychology class or diagnostic manual.

Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven't thought about - yet it could be revolutionary for taking health to the next level. This ancient secret is fasting.

Our sleep meditation helps those who wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back asleep, and it's perfect for people who simply want to doze off faster. For a surprising number of listeners, it eventually replaces sleep medication. Repeated listening at bedtime for two to three weeks ensures maximum effectiveness. The Health Journeys' guided sleep meditation audio combats insomnia and provides deep, restorative sleep by creating a rich atmosphere of protection, with images that are evocative enough to successfully compete with the brain chatter that keeps us awake.

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 two to three 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. The images on this relaxation meditation audio heighten feelings of love and safety, pump up serotonin and promote a state of energized calm.

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.

Listening to this relaxing guided meditation for heart health is a powerful, evidence-based practice for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, holistically and naturally. The hypnotic suggestions, soothing narrative, and powerful affirmations on this research-based audio program combine seamlessly to deliver a state-of-the-art guided meditation for lowering blood pressure and guided imagery to lower cholesterol, with methods that have been repeatedly shown to help reduce arterial plaque and support heart health.

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.

When listened to repeatedly, either as separate segments or cumulatively as a whole set, these tracks will dramatically reduce anxiety and the frequency and intensity of panic attacks by teaching relaxation at will, reducing fear and isolation, and instilling a sense of mastery and control in the listener. After two to three weeks, most people experience a substantial reduction or even elimination of panic attacks' classic symptoms. For some, this guided meditation for panic attacks has reduced the need for medication, and in some instances, it has even replaced it.

This guided meditation contains hypnotic suggestions, healing guided imagery and affirmations for boosting your immune system naturally. It is designed to promote general wellness and resilience; support the body’s normal, ongoing protection against any encroaching bacteria, viruses, or cancer cells; and even target cold and flu prevention. If you are interested in an effective immune system meditation to enhance wellness and prevent disease, this combination of superb cellular imagery with exquisite music is the holistic guided imagery tool you are looking for.

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 guided imagery for improving self-confidence and self-esteem allows the listener to envision success while practicing a mental rehearsal of an anticipated, anxiety-producing activity, such as test-taking, work performance, sports, public speaking, auditions, social engagements or some other potentially anxiety-producing activity. By replacing anxiety and fear of failure with an energized, calm sense of mastery and flow, a powerful lesson is delivered on how to gain self-confidence and improve self-esteem in the pleasantest of ways.

This positive affirmations audio program offers positive statements to help combat negative thinking and set the stage for a desired attitude and behavioral change, naturally and organically. Repeated listening to this positive self-talk once or twice a day for two to three weeks can result in profound, holistic personal change. In fact, this positive affirmations audio program can be listened to while driving, dressing, folding laundry, or shaving, and it will still have a powerful, cumulative impact.

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 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 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.

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 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.