There’s a reason Kaiser Permanente has been giving away our guided meditation downloads to their members for free since 1994, with a whopping 74 percent adoption rate. Health insurance companies and HMOs are seeing real results with guided imagery, including:
- Reduced cost, fewer complications, shorter length of stay, less anxiety, and lower use of analgesics for surgical procedures
- Increased member satisfaction with their health plans
- Associated with healthy behavior changes around smoking, weight management, alcohol use, sleep, and exercise
- Improved blood glucose levels in people with diabetes
- RCT’s demonstrate reduced pain, anxiety, and depression in arthritis patients and other rheumatic disease patients, with significant improvement in daily function and quality of life
- Less of the anxiety, stress, and depression that drive 50 percent of office visits to primary care