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.

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.

Imagery in Healing

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Combining the practices of the earliest healers with the latest data from modern medicine, this comprehensive work shows how the systematic use of mental imagery can help patients through painful events such as childbirth and burn treatment, as well as act as a positive influence on disease states such as cancer.

Rituals of Healing

Author: Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imagery (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

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.

Encyclopedia of Mental Imagery

Author: Gerald Epstein
Publisher: Gerald Epstein
ISBN: 1883148103
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Containing more than 2,100 original mental imagery exercises drawn from the work of the great 20th-century spiritual master and healer Colette Aboulker-Muscat, this manual of spiritual teaching and rich treasury of powerful healing images can be used as a daily source of inspiration, transformation, and healing.

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.

Transformative Imagery

Author: Leslie Davenport
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784501751
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Guided imagery is a transformative practice for reducing stress, healing mind and body, and improving performance. This definitive collection brings together leading pioneers in the field of guided imagery to share its theory, practice and history. Readers are introduced to the extensive uses of imagery, from its medical application for pain relief, cancer care and other physical healing, through its significant contribution to mental health and depth psychology, to its application within the arts and as a vehicle for social change. An exploration of the place of imagery within spiritual and religious traditions includes a never before published guide to the internal alchemy of Daoist imagery. Transformative Imagery will enable professionals to tailor guided imagery to their individual practice, demonstrating how to use it with people of all ages, from chronic pain patients to athletes to combat veterans and for both mental and physical health.