A third grade teacher describes a successful program, now in its fourth year, of starting each day with a guided imagery exercise designed to help the children relax and get ready for the day..
My daughter is about to take the bar exam. She wants to learn relaxation skills and guided imagery for when she’s taking the test. But can’t anxiety be useful? Isn’t it good to have some?
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam evaluated the efficacy of brief cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with acute posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with 143 subjects within 3 mos of experiencing a traumatic event..
Shortly after the violence at Virginia Tech this past Spring, several loyal alums contacted us to see if we would be willing to donate downloads of our trauma-related imagery for the students, faculty, staff..
A young woman facing surgery and her grateful mom express their thanks for the combination of a Reiki session and a guided imagery CD, offered to her by this caring Reiki practitioner..
A man asks for an interested friend where he can find the guided imagery surgery study that persuaded Blue Shield to adopt the technique for all its approved pre-surgical members..
It’s been a while since I’ve listened to David Illig’s work, and, frankly, I just plain forgot how extraordinarily good he is. We just don’t see this level of skillfulness, layered subtlety, ingenious phrasing
A 31 yr old woman with major depression, addictions and complex, long-standing posttraumatic stress, who has tried therapy, wonders what she can do to improve her situation and emerge from a deep sense of hopelessness..
Researchers from the University of New South Wales find in a controlled study that CBT and CBT plus hypnosis significantly reduced symptoms of Acute Stress Disorder, and that the greater reduction was in the CBT plus hypnosis group..
Panic attacks are heavily associated with an earlier experience of traumatic stress. The same wave of alarm biochemicals that flood the body during traumatic events are what’s buzzing through the bloodstream during a panic attack..