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Self-Healing With Guided Imagery
s/t: How to Use the Power of Your Mind to Heal Your Body
Join America's favorite doctor, Andrew Weil, M.D., and fellow-physician Martin Rossman on an introduction to the far-reaching effects of imagery and visualization on one's physical, mental, and emotional health. Dr. Weil introduces the topic, shares his own experience with visualization, and reveals the results of current research on how the practice of imagery directly influences one's well-being. Dr. Rossman guides listeners through a complete series of practical exercises that provide an immediate experience of the healing benefits of visualization.
Join America's favorite doctor, Andrew Weil, M.D., and fellow-physician Martin Rossman on an introduction to the far-reaching effects of imagery and visualization on one's physical, mental, and emotional health. Dr. Weil introduces the topic, shares his own experience with visualization, and reveals the results of current research on how the practice of imagery directly influences one's well-being. Dr. Rossman guides listeners through a complete series of practical exercises that provide an immediate experience of the healing benefits of visualization.
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First published January 1, 2003
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Andrew Weil
209 books651 followersAndrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care that encompasses body, mind, and spirit. He is the author of many scientific and popular articles and of 14 books: The Natural Mind, The Marriage of the Sun and Moon From Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen) Health and Healing, Natural Health, Natural Medicine; and the international bestsellers, Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit (with Rosie Daley) Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being; and Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future (issued in paperback with new content as You Can’t Afford to Get Sick).
Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs throughout the United States, and through its Fellowship, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.
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Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs throughout the United States, and through its Fellowship, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.
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Facebook.com/DrWeil
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June 20, 2008
Fantastic! I'm going to have to listen to this book again. Some of the ideas behind the book:
1. Use guided imagery along with regular medical treatment.
2. Helps you create a respectful relationship with your body, which can help you understand what your body is going through and how to help it.
3. Continuation of Psychoneuroimmunology in which the way our mind and body are completely connected and can affect our internal chemistry.
I'm a strong believer in the body-mind connection. The second cd in this set is a cd of guided techniques. I use these to help me get to sleep at night, to quiet my mind, to still my body. I have restless leg syndrome on top of sleep apnea, and most recently diagnosed with fibro myalgia. Sleep is something that elludes me nightly. The first guided session helps me invite my body to relax muscle by muscle, body part by body part. I'm usually asleep by the middle of the session.
I want to use these sessions to help me with other areas of my life as well, not just for sleep. The best thing for firbro myalgia patients is to get their weight under control and set up an organized schedule so that flare ups are few and far between.
One of the examples used in the book is about a woman who needed to lose weight. Dr. Rossman asked the woman if she could imagine how she would feel if she lost weight. When the woman said she would feel fantastic, he asked her if she could imagine what it would be like to give up desserts for a week. She said she would give herself a ton of pats on the back if she could give up desserts for a week. The idea being that they make a plan for her imagery and to make that plan manageable and maintainable. Dr. Rossman says that we have to have a plan when we begin guided imagery otherwise we'll kind of be all over the place in our goals and what we hope to obtain in our sessions. But we want to make sure that our goals are big enough to matter and small enough to maintain. I like that. I did something similar in which I said I would give up ice cream for 21 days. I think I'm going on 44 days now.
Another thing I like about guided imagery is that it gives us permission to dream and harness our daydreams for our own successes and healthiness. Obviously you wouldn't want to spend your entire day daydreaming, but with guided imagery you have a clear goal in mind and something to work towards. One woman with heart disease used guided imagery to help her connect to her illness and her heart. She said that she finally realized that her heart wasn't just something that she lugged around to doctor after doctor, but that it was really her heart and that it needed her respect, love and care. Dr. Rossman says we should be quiet and ask our body what it needs; how it would feel if it was healthy. Then we need to listen with respect to what our body tells us.
I recommend this book to anyone who is beginning a project, wants to take better care of themselves, or has certain goals that they want to achieve. (For those who live in Gainesville, this is available at the Alachua County libraries.)
1. Use guided imagery along with regular medical treatment.
2. Helps you create a respectful relationship with your body, which can help you understand what your body is going through and how to help it.
3. Continuation of Psychoneuroimmunology in which the way our mind and body are completely connected and can affect our internal chemistry.
I'm a strong believer in the body-mind connection. The second cd in this set is a cd of guided techniques. I use these to help me get to sleep at night, to quiet my mind, to still my body. I have restless leg syndrome on top of sleep apnea, and most recently diagnosed with fibro myalgia. Sleep is something that elludes me nightly. The first guided session helps me invite my body to relax muscle by muscle, body part by body part. I'm usually asleep by the middle of the session.
I want to use these sessions to help me with other areas of my life as well, not just for sleep. The best thing for firbro myalgia patients is to get their weight under control and set up an organized schedule so that flare ups are few and far between.
One of the examples used in the book is about a woman who needed to lose weight. Dr. Rossman asked the woman if she could imagine how she would feel if she lost weight. When the woman said she would feel fantastic, he asked her if she could imagine what it would be like to give up desserts for a week. She said she would give herself a ton of pats on the back if she could give up desserts for a week. The idea being that they make a plan for her imagery and to make that plan manageable and maintainable. Dr. Rossman says that we have to have a plan when we begin guided imagery otherwise we'll kind of be all over the place in our goals and what we hope to obtain in our sessions. But we want to make sure that our goals are big enough to matter and small enough to maintain. I like that. I did something similar in which I said I would give up ice cream for 21 days. I think I'm going on 44 days now.
Another thing I like about guided imagery is that it gives us permission to dream and harness our daydreams for our own successes and healthiness. Obviously you wouldn't want to spend your entire day daydreaming, but with guided imagery you have a clear goal in mind and something to work towards. One woman with heart disease used guided imagery to help her connect to her illness and her heart. She said that she finally realized that her heart wasn't just something that she lugged around to doctor after doctor, but that it was really her heart and that it needed her respect, love and care. Dr. Rossman says we should be quiet and ask our body what it needs; how it would feel if it was healthy. Then we need to listen with respect to what our body tells us.
I recommend this book to anyone who is beginning a project, wants to take better care of themselves, or has certain goals that they want to achieve. (For those who live in Gainesville, this is available at the Alachua County libraries.)
February 10, 2010
Excellent audio book! Dr.'s Andrew Weil & Martin Rossman present a great approach to using guided imagery. The first section explains the process of guided imagery, discusses the importance of using it in congruence with modern medicine, and examines the power of the mind. The second section provides you several exercises for guided imagery. This book is great for everyone. Even if you don't have health problems now, it can help you get more in tune with your body. For me, I think this is going to be a great step in the management of my chronic rib injury.
April 26, 2024
This audiobook just has good energy.
May 1, 2022
I love this audio CD. It contains two CDs; one addresses all the health benefits of guided imagery and the second guides you three meditative sessions ranging from 1 - fully relaxing and listening to your body to 2 - visualizing an inner healer to 3 - speaking to a health issue in your body, visualizing what it looks like and how to heal it. The first time I went through this guided imagery for the second exercise, I came up with an image that was so peaceful and effective for me that I can easily conjure this image up anytime I need it. This process dovetails nicely with my growing meditative practice. I appreciate the more holistic mind/body connection encouraged by the two authors. Our own bodies are wonderful healing machines if we just tap into it.
July 26, 2025
The star of the book, of course, is Dr. Rossman. The first part of the book is Dr. Weil giving a little intro regarding guided imagery. But the second half is the brilliant, absolutely brilliant voice and technique of guided imagery by Dr. Rossman. It's so powerful and I used it for my ankle and hand and it was quite effective. I've used other methods for IBS stuff in the past and it's been effective but this was even more powerful and the explanations were quite helpful. I bought the book and definitely recommend the audio and not the written version.
May 21, 2015
I was recommended this audiobook before my hip replacement surgery. I have to say that it help me calm the craziness that I was feeling. I want to listen to this book again once I am through this experience.
October 18, 2009
Used the audio book CD edition, listened to it before and during cervical spine surgery. A bit too blahblah.
April 16, 2017
Rossman's voice is fantastic.
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