Imagery in Healing

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834826291
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
This influential book shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain. In Imagery in Healing, Jeanne Achterberg brings together modern scientific research and the practices of the earliest healers to support her claim that imagery is the world's oldest and most powerful healing resource. The book has become a classic in the field of alternative medicine and continues to be read by new generations of health care professionals and lay people. In Imagery in Healing, Achterberg explores in detail the role of the imagination in the healing process. She begins with an exploration of the tradition of shamanism, "the medicine of the imagination," surveying this time-honored way of touching the nexus of the mind, body, and soul. She then traces the history of the use of imagery within Western medicine, including a look at contemporary examples of how health care professionals have drawn on the power of the imagination through such methods as hypnosis, biofeedback, and the placebo effect. Ultimately, Achterberg looks to the science of immunology to uncover the most effective ground for visualization, and she presents data demonstrating how imagery can have a direct and profound impact on the workings of the immune system. Drawing on art, science, history, anthropology, and medicine, Imagery in Healing offers a highly readable overview of the profound and complex relationship between the imagination and the body.

Rituals of Healing

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553373471
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
A practical guide to using the powers of the mind and the imagination to form rituals that can help the body restore and maintain health Winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award As the success of Bill Moyers’s bestselling Healing and the Mind shows, the mind-body connection is widely and enthusiastically accepted. Rituals of Healing uses the mind-body connection to develop remarkable techniques for healing—which it presents with the inspiring stories of patients who have used them successfully. Designed to complement and enhance a physician’s care and established medical treatment, the rituals in this book can be customized for maximum benefit for any individual. Filled with specific exercises, visualization scripts, and insightful case histories, Rituals of Healing provides caring, attentive guidance through each step of the healing journey.

Healing Visualizations

Author: Gerald Epstein, M.D.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553346237
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
The comprehensive guide to imagery therapy for: the common cold, bone fractures, arthritis, hypertension, headaches, asthma, infertility, depression, pms, anxiety, obesity, and much more For years it has been widely known that the mind exerts a tremendous influence on our physical well-being—often determining the difference between health and disease. In Healing Visualizations, Dr. Gerald Epstein, a psychiatrist and pioneer in waking dream therapy, provides a new vision of how the mind can help heal the body through the power of “imaginal medicine.” Developed over fifteen years of clinical practice, Dr. Epstein’s safe, potent techniques for tapping the mind’s healing energy enable us to influence our own health with remarkably fast, positive results. More than seventy-five exercises cover specific health problems form common ailments such as allergies, colds, backaches, headaches, and arthritis to life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Each exercise takes just one to five minutes. And there are special visualizations for overall wellness that you can personalize to fit your own daily health and fitness needs. A revolutionary and inspiring program, Healing Visualizations is a major contribution to understanding, restoring, and maintaining the healthful unity of body and mind.

Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery

Author: Leslie Davenport
Publisher: Celestial Arts
ISBN: 1587613247
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Emphasizes the transformative power of creative visualization techniques to help those suffering from trauma, crisis, PTSD, addiction, emotional upheaval, grief, conflict, and illness through the healing process, explaining how to use the challenges of life as an opportunity for growth and self-realization. Original.

Guided Imagery for Self-Healing

Author: Martin L.Rossman
Publisher: H J Kramer
ISBN: 1932073299
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
Using methods he has taught to thousands of patients and health-care professionals since 1972, Dr. Rossman teaches a step-by-step method of harnessing the power of the mind to further one's own physical healing. Versatile and easy-to-learn, mental imagery as explained by Dr. Rossman, can be used to: Achieve deep physiological relaxation Stimulate healing responses in the body Create an inner dialogue and gain a better understanding of one's health Improve health and general well-being. The idea of guided imagery as an aid to the healing process is a recognized key component in the health care equation of mind/body healing. Starting with a discussion of the nature of imagery and how it works, Dr. Rossman presents specific scripts that can be used directly. Scripts include: Exploring Your Imagery Abilities, Basic Relaxation Skills, Deepening Techniques, Your Healing Imagery, Meeting Your Inner Advisor, Symptoms are Symbols, Grounding Your Insight, Learning From Your Resistance, and Your Image of Wellness. A practical and helpful book not only for those facing specific health problems but for all who wish to use the imagination for a wide range of individual purposes unlimited to health situations.

Healing Imagery and Music

Author: Carol A. Bush
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9780915801503
Category : Imagery (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Introduces The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), a powerful technique that uses the harmonies and melodies contained in classical music to unlock deep inner stresses and explore experiences embedded within the psyche."--Back cover.

Navaho Symbols of Healing

Author: Donald Sandner
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892814343
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
A Jungian-trained psychiatrist explores ancient Navaho methods of healing that use vibrant imagery to bring the psyche into harmony with natural forces.

Healing Into Immortality

Author: Gerald Epstein
Publisher: Gerald Epstein
ISBN: 1883148049
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Who among us has not wished for eternal life? In Healing Into Immortality, Gerald N. Epstein, MD, a pioneer in mindbody medicine for 25 years, offers a prescription that extends life and prevents illness.In this revolutionary book, Dr. Epstein shows the practical meaning of these laws in our daily life. How many of us realize that we steal time when we are late; that we murder ourselves when we feel depressed; that we commit adultery when we mix business with pleasure?

The Healing Waterfall

Author: Max Highstein
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9780979424410
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Bestselling guided imagery author Max Highstein offers 100 of his best scripts for counselors, healers, clergy, teachers, psychology students and others. Choose from 100 evocative guided inner journeys that soothe, inspire, and delight. Topics include: - Finding Peace and Calm- Healing and the Mind-Body Connection- Improving Sleep- Emotional Wellbeing and Happiness- Visualization for Success- Learning to Meditate- Higher Guidance and Insight- Connecting with Spiritual Figures- Kids and Family- 12-Step Programs

Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy

Author: Ann Hackmann
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191620750
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Imagery is one of the new, exciting frontiers in cognitive therapy. From the outset of cognitive therapy, its founder Dr. Aaron T. Beck recognised the importance of imagery in the understanding and treatment of patient's problems. However, despite Beck's prescience, clinical research on imagery, and the integration of imagery interventions into clinical practice, developed slowly. It is only in the past 10 years that most writing and research on imagery in cognitive therapy has been conducted. The Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy is a landmark book, which will play an important role in the next phase of cognitive therapy's development. Clinicians and researchers are starting to recognise the centrality of imagery in the development, maintenance and treatment of psychological disorders - for example, in social phobia, agoraphobia, depression, PTSD, eating disorders, childhood trauma, and personality disorder. In the fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, researchers are identifying the key role that imagery plays in emotion, cognition and psychopathology. The Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy has been written both for clinicians and researchers. For clinicians, it is a user-friendly, practical guide to imagery, which will enable therapists to understand imagery phenomenology, and to integrate imagery-based interventions into their cognitive therapy practice. For researchers, it provides a state-of-the-art summary of imagery research, and points the way to future studies. Written by three well-respected CBT researcher-clinicians, it is essential reading for all cognitive therapists, who have recognised the limitations of purely 'verbal' CBT techniques, and want to find new ways to work with clients with psychological disorders.