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Sexual Healing

Healing the wounds of sexual trauma has long been considered by many psychotherapists to be one of the most challenging tasks a person will ever face. The good news, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine, is that new and more effective tools are emerging. On Sexual Healing, Dr. Levine a pioneer in the field of healing trauma teaches you his innovative series of body-based practices to release the sexual trauma of your past. Join him to learn: What new research reveals about the way we store the energies and memories of distressing events in the body Understanding the signs of sexual trauma How to create a “container” for your emotions and release them safely – without becoming overwhelmed Gentle exercises to reconnect with your body and recover your ability to experience pleasure and joy Your body has a natural process for healing trauma and restoring resilience in your nervous system. Unfortunately, few of us are taught to identify and allow this process to happen when it arises. Sexual Healing shares the principles and skills you need to restore your sacred inner space and move forward in your life with greater presence, focus, and passion.

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Reiki Meditations for Self-Healing: Traditional Japanese Practices for Your Energy and Vitality

Most people know the system of Reiki as a healing art for treating others, but few realize that this increasingly popular energy practice also focuses on meditations for self-healing and personal empowerment. With Reiki Meditations for Self-Healing, acclaimed author Bronwen Stiene (The Reiki Sourcebook, O Books, 2004) presents two CDs of guided instruction in traditional Japanese practices for your own health and vitality. Requiring no prior experience in the system, this program guides listeners through meditations for building the life energy of ki throughout the body¿s meridians, becoming more emotionally balanced, focusing healing through the hands to specific areas of the body, and opening a conduit to this divine source of energy, Reiki.

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Healing Our Violence Through the Journey of Centering Prayer

Two internationally known spiritual guides explore integrating our inner and outer journeys. They challenge us to confront our inner and social violence and bring it to healing and transformation in a sacred and ecumenical context.

In a spiritual stimulating weekend, Rohr and Keating each gave insights on awakening to God’s friendship, coming to know God and ourselves, growing in love through Centering Prayer, facing evil around us and our demons within us as well as opening our deep selves to divine therapy which heals our wounds. They invite us to become who we already are.

These conferences will appeal to those beginning and those more seasoned in centering prayer. The deep wisdom of two spiritual masters is a sacred and transforming gift plunging us into the ocean of divinity that surrounds us.

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Place of Healing: Wrestling With the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God’s Sovereignty

In this eloquent account of her current struggle with physical pain, Joni Eareckson Tada offers her perspective on divine healing, God’s purposes, and what it means to live with joy. Over four decades ago, a diving accident left Joni a quadriplegic. Today, she faces a new battle: unrelenting pain. The ongoing urgency of this season in her life has caused Joni to return to foundational questions about suffering and God’s will. A Place of Healing is not an ivory-tower treatise on suffering. It’s an intimate look into the life of a mature woman of God. Whether readers are enduring physical pain, financial loss, or relational grief, Joni invites them to process their suffering with her. Together, they will navigate the distance between God’s magnificent yes and heartbreaking non and find new hope for thriving in-between.

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Preparing for Surgery: Guided Imagery Exercises for Relaxation and Accelerated Healing

Are you preparing for major surgery? Recent medical research indicates that guided imagery is an effective way to maximize the body’s healing resources and take the worry out of surgery. Martin Rossman, M.D., presents Preparing for Surgery, a series of simple yet effective imagery techniques proven to benefit patients with shorter hospital stays, fewer complications, less pain, and less bleeding after an operation. Listeners will learn the tools to support a successful and easier surgery, as well as to speed and stimulate the recovery process.

Includes three exercises: preparing for a successful surgery, preparing on the day of surgery, and healing well after surgery.

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Meditation and Yoga Nidra (Relaxation and Stress Reduction, Healing and Rejuvenation)

The rest gained from 30 minutes of Yoga Nidra is deeper and more recuperative than several hours of normal sleep. The gentle healing process releases long term tensions, anxiety and exhaustion from the body-mind. Yoga Nidra improves the quality of sleep and promotes calm, grounded and positive feelings.

This CD combines powerful western methods of psychology with classical Yoga Nidra to aid greater relaxation and healing. Dr Swami Shankardev is a direct disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, the originator of Yoga Nidra.

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Healing the Shame that Binds You

Healing the Shame that Binds You is the most enduring work of family relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author John Bradshaw. In it, he shows how unhealthy toxic shame, often learned young and maintained into adulthood, is the core component in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and drive to superachieve. While positive shame empowers us and sustains the fabric of our social system, inappropriate or misdirected shame results in the breakdown of our self-esteem, the destruction of the family system, and an inability to move forward with our lives.In an honest and emotionally revealing style based largely on his personal experience with addiction and his decades as a counselor, John Bradshaw moves from the source and manifestation of toxic shame to the practical tools-affirmations, visualizations, inner voice and feeling work, guided meditations, and other healing techniques-that will release the shame that binds us to our past.

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Meditations for Personal Healing

The best-selling author of YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE & THE POWER IS WITHIN YOU, Louise Hay takes you on a healing journey of hope, peace, and love in these 16 Meditations for Personal Healing. Inspiring and relaxing, these meditations will remind you of the beauty that surrounds us every day of our lives; a beauty that we sometimes take for granted.

 

Louise’s key message is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” She has a great deal of experience and first hand information to share about healing including how she cured herself after having been diagnosed as being terminally ill with cancer.

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Meditations for Emotional Healing: Finding Freedom in the Face of Difficulty

Despite our best intentions, we often have trouble dealing effectively with strong emotions. What if you had a conscious, skillful way to respond in times of anger, fear, jealousy, shame, and other powerful emotions? Meditations for Emotional Healing gives us a collection of insights and practices for bringing compassion, clarity, and understanding to our emotional lives–instead of expressing or repressing them in unhealthy ways. Leading meditation teacher and clinical psychologist Tara Brach guides us through a transformative series of exercises to cultivate greater self-acceptance and emotional liberation. Meditations include: How to work with trauma, fear, and shame – Forgiveness meditation – Compassion meditation – Invoking loving presence in the face of difficulty – The power of yes As Tara puts it, – When we touch what is painful with awareness, the armoring around our heart melts and we become more tender and kind. Meditations for Emotional Healing is an invitation to return to our natural state at peace with what is, energetically whole, and spiritually free.