Belleruth Naparstek discusses the difference between visualization and guided imagery
Psychotherapist, author and guided imagery innovator Belleruth Naparstek is the creator of the popular, Time Warner Health Journeys guided imagery audio series. Her first book, Staying Well with Guided Imagery, is a widely used wellness primer. Her second, Your Sixth Sense, has been translated into 8 languages and called one of the most thoughtful and sophisticated looks at intuition in print. Her new book on imagery and posttraumatic stress, Invisible Heroes: Trauma Survivors and How They Heal (Bantam Dell), released in late 2004, won the Spirituality & Health Top 50 Books Award and is out in paperback January of 2006.
As Prevention Magazine recently noted, she has been quietly creating an underground revolution among mainstream health and mental health bureaucracies, by persuading institutions like Aetna U.S. Healthcare, the U.S. Veteran's Administration, The American Red Cross, Kaiser Permanente, GlaxoSmithKline, Ortho Biotech, Blue Shield of California, Roche, Abbott, Amgen, Medical Mutual of Ohio, and nearly 2000 hospitals, mental health centers, social service agencies, health spas and recovery centers to distribute her guided imagery recordings, in several instances free of charge to clients.
In addition, her audio programs have been involved in over two dozen clinical trials, with nearly a dozen studies completed to date. Efficacy has been established for several psychological and medical challenges.
For a FREE download of Belleruth's guided imagery just click on the following link. Once the audio starts, just close your eyes (or keep your lids at half-mast if you don't want to shut them completely) and let yourself experience the voice, music and images. Simple as it sounds, repeated listening to this segment from our Relieve Stress audio program can reduce your stress considerably and remind your body that it knows how to relax.
http://www.healthjourneys.com/free_audio.asp
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