Taoist Healing Imagery Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2005

I'm not a new age-y person, but the visualizations on the cd helps me relax anytime, anywhere. It would be a good gift for a stressed out friend or family member because you get powerful images & a hypnotic voice to calm & balance yourself anytime. Towards the end I find the planet meditations a little far fetched & am not able to relate to them, but this CD is like a cook book, you have several different recipes (visualizations) to choose from & focus on your favorites, you don't need to do everything. The basic intro, breathing, dantien focus, & colors are what make this CD highly valuable to me. While obviously not meant to be used in the car, it is possible to get some benefit from listening with eyes open while driving.

I love this meditation method. I have recommend a few of my friends!

This tape is almost entirely Taoist energy visualization practices--with little theory. The author has other books etc. which presumably cover the theory. There are quite a few different techniques included on this cassette. Some have similar features to kundalini yoga & Rosicrucian exercises but are quite dissimilar to Reiki. They are much closer to Tibetan Buddhist completion stage practices with prana, bindu, drops, etc. than any of the others IMHO. Exercises include breathing techniques, sun/moon/stars energy attunement, chakras (with a different terminology & different colors/meanings for the planets), etc. The overall intent is a "flowing with the forces of creation." i.e. the Tao. I cannot tell (without considerable practice to see definitive results) how efficacious they are, but their similarity to known practices infers their usefulness. The tape is well presented & well recorded. I was delighted to be able to learn a bit more about Taoist practices. I hope you will also.

This CD did not have the guided imagery I was hoping for. It was more 'spoken' and technical sounding then guided for me.