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Free Inroduction to Creative Visualization for Complementary Cancer Care

Cancer 1 Immunity Support Calling in the Troops

Download this creative visualization with guided imagery found to boost immune responses to cancer. <br><br>This visualization is for people with malignancies who want to take an active role in their therapy. You engage the mind-body connection by metaphorically calling in 'troops' to seek out and remove cancer cells. With a tone of playful command, you visualize immune cells surrounding, targeting, and shipping out the unwanted cells. A touch of humor encourages emotional lightness while fostering serious internal cooperation with medical treatment. Listeners are encouraged to repeat the visualization frequently until they can do it on their own, and to adapt it creatively to suit their own imagery and needs. Photo thanks to Michail Nilov at Pexels.

Cancer 2 Shutting Off the Blood Supply to Tumors

Download this guided meditation with creative visualization for cancer healing containing guided imagery for cutting the blood/food supply to tumors.<br><br>This visualization is for people with malignancies who want to take an active role in their therapy. You engage the mind-body connection by metaphorically going into a control room with valves and pipes leading to different parts of your body. You turn the valves leading to cancerous parts and then follow the pipes all the way to the affected area and clamp them tight, cutting off the flow of nutrients to cancer cells. A touch of humor encourages emotional lightness while fostering serious internal cooperation with medical treatment. Listeners are encouraged to repeat the visualization frequently until they can do it on their own, and to adapt it creatively to suit their own needs. Photo thanks to Clickerhappy at Pexels.

Cancer 3 Trusting Your Surgical Team

Download this metaphorical cancer healing visualization audio MP3 containing guided imagery for building trust in your surgeon. <br><br>This creative visualization helps cultivate trust in your surgical team by imagining your surgeon as a perfectionist gardener caring for a vibrant garden—your body. With delicate precision, the surgeon prunes only what is necessary, allowing health and beauty to flourish. This visualization supports a sense of confidence, safety, and cooperation with the surgical process. Enjoy the imagery, and let it guide your mind toward healing. Frequent practice is encouraged until you can do it on your own and adapt it as needed. Photo thanks to Kampas Production at Pexels.

Cancer 4 Weathering the Radiation Storm

Download this guided meditation audio program (MP3) containing evidence-informed guided imagery for cancer patients to enhance their radiation therapy experience.<br><br>This exciting creative visualization helps prepare your mind and body for radiation therapy by imagining your body as a landscape of neighborhoods—some filled with sturdy, well-built homes (healthy cells), and others with weakened, dilapidated structures (malignant cells). A powerful storm representing the radiation comes through and destroys only the damaged structures while leaving the strong ones intact. This metaphor helps reinforce the idea that radiation therapy can be precise and effective. Use this visualization to boost resilience and reduce anxiety before treatment. Photo thanks to Elliot FZ at Pexels.

Cancer 5 Express Drone Chemotherapy Delivery

Download this Zen-X chemo comfort guided meditation MP3 containing evidence-based cancer imagery depicting precise delivery of anticancer packages.<br><br>In this vivid and imaginative visualization, you picture high-tech drones delivering tiny explosives through open windows and unlocked doors of cancer cells only—bypassing healthy cells. These targeted missions represent modern chemotherapy and its aim to destroy cancer from within. This metaphor encourages a sense of control and optimism about therapy. Listen frequently and enjoy the mental imagery. Photo thanks to Jashoots com at Pexels.

Cancer 6 Forgiveness and Letting Go of Guilt & Resentment

Download James Steed's MP3 talk to learn to create your own healing cancer visualization involving the use of forgiveness to make way for healing.<br><br>This session is more of a reflective talk than a visualization. It explores how guilt and resentment can interfere with healing by creating stress and emotional stagnation. You are invited to craft your own visualization or metaphor to help release these burdens. Letting go can open the way for greater emotional clarity and therapeutic benefit. A talk on how to create your own visualization. Photo thanks to Cottonbro at Pexels.

Steed 20-Item Scale: Ability To Benefit From Visualization (20 minutes)

There are several kinds of meditation, including observational, concentration, and visualization. One's ability to benefit from creative visualization has been found to be determined by one's ability to be absorbed into imagined experience and to experience trance-like phenomena. This oral questionnaire contains items related to this absorbance and trance phenomena. Take it, score it, and see how likely you will benefit from guided meditations and creative visualizations. It's very interesting. <br><br>

Free Introduction to MIndfulness and Its Applications

I Am The Captain of My Ship (18:45)

I am the Captain of My Ship: Gaining Perspective and Empowering Change. When you are hoping to bring more mindfulness into your life or you are facing life's challenges, you may repeat the following very empowering set of affirmations based in part on the de-identification exercise in The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli. Synthesis Center Press, 2010. Repeat these affirmations in a relaxed and open meditative state. Repeat this meditation in its full form once or twice a day for a couple of months. I hope you find it a useful cognitive therapy resource and mindfulness activity.<br>

Cultivating Mindful Presence and Installing It in Your World

This guided meditation teaches you how to sit, center, observe your breath, and settle into mindful awareness, handle intrusive thoughts, and cultivate presence. Then, it shows you how to install that presence into your daily life and re-experience it even when you're not meditating. Even experienced mindfulness practitioners can benefit from this audio-guided mindfulness meditation. You will be glad you did, and so will everyone around you.<br><br>Special notes: (1) This audio program has simple tones in the background to reduce interference from noise in your environment but not interfere with your breathing, which should be normal for you. (2) It is practiced in three sequences, so that you can finish at around 24:20, 32:15, or 40:10, depending on your time. The tones cut out for a second or two between the first and second sequence.<br> Photo thanks to Mart Production at Pexels

Free Introduction to Creative Anxiety Management

A four-page document introducing you to what anxiety is, a few of the disorders, the thoughts, emotions, and behavior cycle, the pivotal role of anxiety, the need for recognizing severity level, systematic desensitization vs imagined desensitization, creative visualization and guided imagery and their application to desensitization as well as the relaxation response, confidence and ego building, stepping back from anxious thoughts, seeing things in a new way, and even changing habitual behaviors. This is followed by an introduction to our downloadable guided meditations and creative visualizations designed to help you manage various aspects of anxiety. Not medical care or medical advice. Complementary support. Photo thanks to Pexels and Anns Shevtsa.

Heading Anxiety Off at the Pass (23:00)

This is the third in a series of cognitive behavior therapy-informed guided meditation practices to manage anxiety. It desensitizes you to early alerts of imagined fears. It entails recognizing an anxious alert to imagined fear, temporarily changing your breathing in response to that alert, observing and labeling the associated thought, and an activity known as "acting as if." Practice often to make your new breathing behavior an automatic response to an alert to prevent the escalation of anxiety. Later, you create your own and practice without the audio. I think you will find these practices good cognitive therapy and mindfulness resources.<br>

Meditation at Your Fingertips (25:00)

This audio program is part of a series of cognitive behavior therapy-informed guided meditations I created to manage anxiety. This program desensitizes you to distracting, anxious thoughts and emerging anxiety. It entails how to recognize that you are being distracted by anxious thoughts, how to develop a meditative state and establish a fingertip cue for it, followed by practicing it a couple of times with the program. Practice often as much as twice a day in the beginning to learn how to reduce low-to-moderate levels of anxiety and prevent escalation. Later, do it with no audio. It would be good if you practiced my audio program "I Am the Captain of My Ship" 3 to 5 times before you begin this anxiety journey. You will discover that my guided meditations and good cognitive therapy and mindfulness resources.<br><br>

Zen-X (42:00)

This audio program is part of my guided cognitive behavior therapy-informed meditation and visualization program to relieve anxiety. In this guided visualization and metaphor, an anxious girl meets a walking guru who guides her to let go of intrusive thoughts. It is practiced repetitively in the thought field. The guru ends by going to his magic medicine shop to give her a customized prescription of Zen-X to relieve her anxiety without knocking her out. Practice this 3 to 4 times before moving on to my other programs. It works best for people who absorb easily into imagined scenarios (See my 20-Question Scale). You will be pleasantly surprised at how useful the cognitive therapy resources are. <br>

Home In A Bubble--You CAN Take It With You (26:00)

This audio program is part of a series of cognitive behavior therapy-informed meditations and mindfulness practices to relieve anxious thoughts. In this visualization, you first put yourself in a safe, comfortable, friendly place that you create or recreate within an orb, make it transparent, and then imagine moving about the world in that bubble undisturbed like Oz's Glenda, the Good Witch of the North. You also create a symbol that evokes these states and place it in your mind's eye in places you go and people you meet, programming future responses. These symbols will light up at the unconscious level as you move about in the world outside your home. This useful cognitive therapy resource proves that you can take your meditative state with you.

Wanda & Andy: a Metaphor For People Anxious In Social Situations (36:00)

This is part of a course of audio programs to relieve various anxieties, in this case, social. This 36-minute cognitive therapy- and cognitive behavior therapy-informed metaphor/creative visualization is to be listened to and imagined at bedtime. It starts off setting a goal, followed by relaxing into a meditative state and inner child communication. You only need to listen to this once or twice to start you down a less anxious path. Practice most of my anxiety programs to gain the most benefit over time. This one is best for people easily absorbed into imagined scenarios and novels (See my 20-Item Scale). This audio program is a good cognitive therapy resource. Peace. Keep your mind open and playful as you add metaphor to your mindfulness, cognitive behavior therapy, and cognitive therapy resources.<br>

Put Your Earbuds In: Interrupting Your Panic in 16 Minutes

This audio program in one of a series of audio downloads to relieve anxiety. It is a "do-as-I-say" session, not a meditation session. It is design to somewhat forcefully interrupt a panic attack. Most people panicking won't feel like relaxing and meditating. This practice starts with thought interrupting breath work, followed by grounding in the present, vagus nerve stimulation, visualization, and rehearsal. Anytime you start panicking, put your earbuds in your ears, listen to this program intently, and follow my directions like you are a new cadet listening to the captain in boot camp. After you have done this a few times, you will be able to do for yourself without the program. For best results, practice my other cognitive therapy- and cognitive behavior therapy-informed meditations, "I am the Captain of My Ship", "Home in a Bubble", and "Meditation at Your Fingertips." Peace.<br><br>

Medicine Buddha Lapis Mala

The Medicine Buddha is known as the Lapis King. He is always pictured with blue skin. Lapis, itself, favor 3rd Eye Chakra, Communication. <br><br>The mala is held between and moved by the thumbs and middle fingers, never the index finger. The tassel marks the space between the beginning and the end of a line of 108 beads, one bead each for the chant of round of the Medicine Buddha Mantra. <br><br>To do the chant, first say your say name and say you intend to chant the mantra for the benefit of all sentient beings. Then, chant the mantra, one round for each bead.<br><br>In Tibetan: <br>Da Ya To OM. (Let it be like this. I my body and mind.)<br>Bekenjay. Bekenjay. Maha Benkenjay. (The Medicine Buddha's name 3 times)<br>Rajah samagate Soha (Let this vibrate throughout the field of consciousness)<br><br>End by saying, "I release all merit obtained by chanting this mantra to all sentient beings in this world.<br><br>The name is pronounced three times to heal the suffering, to heal the cause of the suffering, to heal the cause of the cause of the suffering. <br><br>You can practice the mantra here.<br>https://insig.ht/y5DQ0d8pyKb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share<br><br>Price includes shipping from India.<br>

Good Grief--A Light Meditation For A Heavy Issue (34:00)

This cognitive therapy- and cognitive behavior therapy-informed guided meditation is not concerned with stages of grief. To practice it, make sure you are over being in denial or being overly distraught over the death of a loved one or loss of something. I guide you into a light state, guide you in mind-body processing, lead you in 2 or 3 imaginative activities, and finish with a metaphor. Before you begin, write down three or four qualities you treasure about a beloved person or pet you lost. Practice it two or three times. I hope you add this program to your treasure trove of useful mindfulness and cognitive therapy resources.<br><br>

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