Guided imagery has been used for years by holistically oriented practitioners to relieve pain, speed healing and alleviate anxiety and depression.The power of the mind to influence the body is a remarkable and potent force in achieving and maintaining wellness.
There are numerous sources for guided imagery CDs and instant MP3 downloads on the web which makes these techniques easily available, inexpensively, to anyone who wants to try it.
Guided imagery has not only been used for healing but also to improve athletic performance and to overcome mental hurdles in business and other areas.
I am reading a great book which I highly recommend called Guided Imagery for Self Healingby Dr Martin Rossman. Dr Rossman has also teamed up with Dr. Andrew Weil to produce a CD versionentitled Self Healing With Guided Imagery.
From the book’s promo: “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 wellbeing.
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.”
There is a video from Light Bridge Media about Dr Rossman’s technique on YouTube which is included below:
Intro to Video From Light Bridge Media: The Academy for Guided Imagery is harnessing the mind’s awesome power to speed healing. We meet Dr. Martin Rossman, the physician who founded the Academy and has trained thousands of practitioners. And we take a look at how guided imagery is being used at a major medical center.
For a more indepth review of Dr Rossman’s ideas, a lecture by Dr Rossman (approx 90 min) from a UC San Francisco Medical School class, courtesy of You Tube, is posted below. If you have time, its worth watching in order to get a better idea of what happens to a person’s body under stress and what you can do about it.
Thanks to one of my favorite integrative medicine doctors, Dr. Christiane Northrup for this great article on the chakras and their role in healing on her site www.drnorthrup.com
Energy healing is an ancient practice in Eastern medicine which is being explored with great interest in the West. Follow the links provided for indepth information on each chakra and its role in healing. This is an easy to read introduction to the concepts.
If interested in exploring energy healing in your area, there are many resources on the web including this one: http://energyhealers.meetup.com/. This site allows you to put in your U.S. Zip Code to find practitioners and interest groups in your area. There are also links for 12 other countries and the site boasts over 38,000 members. Worth a look.
Your 7 Energy Centers
Understanding how energy works in your body can help you decipher your individual body’s unique language. The chakras are the energy centers in the physical body where your beliefs and emotions are transformed into your state of health.
As you study each of your chakras, you’ll discover how your family legacy together with your current thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can directly affect the health of your tissues and organs.
Whether you believe in chakras as literal places in the body or as metaphoric ones, they can help you activate mind/body connections to help you heal.
Each of the seven chakras of the human body is associated with specific organ systems and specific emotional states:
As a health educator who teaches nutrition and the importance of making good food choices in relation to weightcontrol as well as diabetes, I’ve noted that it is a real struggle for most people to find out exactly what the caloric content is of the foods they choose when they occasionally eat out or must eat out for business or even for social occasions.
A book that has been out for a while, EAT THIS, NOT THAT is an easy to read, informative book that is a real eye opener as to what the true caloric and sodium content is of some of our favorite restaurant foods. Big Mac vs. The Whopper? The book covers everything from burgers (beef, turkey or veggie) to banana splits, salads to milkshakes and Starbucks.
The goal of the book is not to tell everyone to avoid eating out, but to make smarter choices with the information provided. A lot of it will shock you as many things you think would be lighter in calories are actually the worst offenders.
The co-authors of the book, David Zinczenko andMatt Goulding have made many appearances promoting the book on several media outlets and several are posted on YouTube. CBN gave Matt Goulding the longest segment (almost 14 min) to discuss the book and it is included below.
In this segment, he names the 5 worst dishes on the menus of restaurants across the U.S. and its entertaining as well as informative…personal deep dish pizza=2310 calories and 162 grams of fat? See more…
