Joan Borysenko, best-selling author and lecturer, leads you through 2 empowering meditations: 1. Breath of Life, Breath of Love: This breath-centered meditation gently guides you through each part of your body, helping you establish contact with the life force within each cell and balance your body’s energy. 2. Stretching and Relaxation: This series of simple meditative stretches and self-massage instructions are deeply restorative to body, mind, and spirit.
On this compact disc, Dr. Bernie Siegel guides you through two individual and empowering meditations, each a combination of guided imagery and auto-hypnosis. These inspiring inner journeys are designed to assist you in dealing with negative thoughts, past hurts, stress, grief, and other conditions that can contribute to your lack of well-being. Bernie’s calm, resonant voice gently helps you experience your own unique qualities, as well as your inner and outer beauty. You will learn to create “healing intervals” within your day to receive the maximum benefit from this compact disc. Through repeated listenings, you will discover that old, outmoded thought patterns will dissipate and be replaced by new thought patterns that will elicit a healthier response from your physical and mental being. Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this compact disc will go to EcaP (Exceptional Cancer Patients), a healing center founded by Bernie in 1978.
This audio program combines healing imagery, powerful music and the most current understanding of the mind-body connection to help you manage pain. Forty-four relaxing minutes of Belleruth’s imagery and affirmations are designed to reduce pain by elevating serotonin levels; teaching relaxation skills; refocusing the mind; encouraging feelings of love, gratitude, safety and peace; and marshaling courage and patience. (Running Time: 44 minutes)
Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes. Science is proving that happiness is a skill that we can all develop. On Meditations for Happiness, Dr. Rick Hanson presents a series of guided meditations that allow you to literally rewire the neural pathways in your brain to experience deeper and more lasting contentment and peace. Dr. Hanson discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution, how our brains both make us happy and create suffering, and how we can use and shape our brains over time to experience more joy and be more at ease in everyday life. He then leads us step-by-step through 14 transformative meditations and exercises.
This imagery was designed to help listeners see their chemotherapy in a positive light; to help reduce aversive side effects, such as fatigue and nausea; to help the body’s immune cells fight cancer; to encourage relaxation and a sense of hope, safety, support and peace. With affirmations. (Running time: 41 minutes)
Mindfulness Meditations for Healing, Presence, and Clarity
A profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awareness-a practice sweeping schools, workplaces, and institutions across the country with its capacity to decrease stress, cultivate inner calm, and expand wisdom and creativity. Clinical psychologist and meditation teacher Tara Brach has been at the forefront of mindfulness-based therapy since its inception, successfully bringing principles of mindfulness to alleviate depression, chronic pain, and more. Now, with Mindfulness Meditation, she offers nine of her most effective guided sessions, perfect for beginning or deepening your mindfulness practice:
A Pause for Presence-a short, basic practice that can be used daily to feel at home with mindfulness Developing Self-Compassion-a meditation that cultivates a forgiving and caring heart towards yourself and others Presence with Everyday Fears-a practice to help you address fear and other emotions in order to find greater freedom and choice Mindfulness of Pain-a meditation to release you from physical suffering Contacting Our Inner Wisdom-a practice to help you avoid constant reactivity in difficult situations“It’s only in the actual experience of here and now that we can experience our full aliveness,” teaches Dr. Brach. “The practice of mindfulness helps to open a heart that is ready for anything.” With Mindfulness Meditation, find the tools to walk the path of mindful awareness-and connect with your innate capacity for love, clarity, and inner peace.
One of the author’s favorite titles, the pregnancy guided imagery inspires confidence and gratitude for the body; feelings of safety, relaxation, protection and support; sets the stage for labor and connection with the baby. The childbirth guided imagery eases discomfort, focuses breathing, increases trust in the body s wisdom and the miraculous birth process. (Running Time: 120 minutes)
Ten Guided Mindfulness Practices to Cultivate Intimacy with the Present Moment and Your Life
In a world where our attention gets distracted and diverted at every turn, mindfulness brings it back and stabilizes it where it matters most—in the here and now. With Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3, Jon Kabat-Zinn leads you with friendliness and care through 10 “mindfulness landscapes,” including:
The Soundscape and Mindscape—Bringing your awareness to the outer world and the inner terrain of your thoughts and emotions The Heartscape—Cultivating lovingkindness, compassion, and healing for yourself and others The Nowscape—Moving beyond specific objects of meditation to rest in the spaciousness of “choiceless awareness” The Lifescape—Letting life itself become the meditation practice and the meditation teacherThis program also includes “breathscape” and “bodyscape” meditations, a guided walking meditation, a restorative yoga-like lying down practice, and a study guide with suggestions for how to best use these practices. If you are seeking to explore new domains of awareness and healing, or to enrich and deepen a long-standing meditation practice, Guided Mindfulness Meditation Series 3 offers rich and varied terrain for you to inhabit and explore.
Belleruth combined 4 exercises on this extra-length program: imagery for mastering anxiety; imagery to pump up feelings of love, safety and protection; a soothing walking meditation for the fidgeters among us who cant sit still; and affirmations for use anytime. (Running Time: 72 min.)
