Healing Trauma: A Guided Meditation for Posttraumatic Stress PTSD Research Proven Guided Imagery to Reduce Symptoms in Trauma Survivors, First Responders, and Caregivers

This may be one of, or simply is her best guided imagery experience. I lent it to a friend who had suddenly lost a close family member and it helped her. I listened to it when I was experiencing a lot of physical pain and also had reasons for getting benefit for the PTS. I read once the 'D' is not an accurate depiction of what is going on with a person who has had an experience(s) where pretty much everyone would react by their body/mind naturally trying to protect and heal itself. Trauma cuts across all labels effecting many kinds of people, giving them more in common than they may realize- vets, police, medical staff as well as 'victims' of catastrophes and assaults and more. Just like with a cut, cleaning it, applying ointment and a bandaid helps the *body heal itself*. Also, true with trauma, guided imagery helps heal. Caveat, we may need to also go to an excellent therapist. A good technique that works beyond talk therapy is EMDR. Pia Melody's work is also good and is a long haul :) Check out BRN's book 'Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal' for a shot in the arm (weird saying these days!!) Anyway, back to this audio session, I can say it helped me. Best wishes on your path. Peace.

I suffered a year of extreme mental (and sometimes physical) abuse from my Mother after she got off of her Schizophrenia medicine.. it was during my senior year, and I haven't really been the same since. I was always cheerful, optimistic, funny, charismatic, and energetic before this event happened, along with some others that included drugs, bad relationship, loss of friends, so all in all.. it was a pretty tough year. I felt it weighing me down.. I knew I had to let it go, but I just couldn't do it by myself.That's when I did some researching and came across this product. I purchased it expecting it to be a meditation like "oh, now you're going through the forest and there are birds chirping at you", but WOW, was I surprised at how deep it took me into my soul. I knew there I was letting go of all the anger when I felt my whole body tingling for 10 seconds. I didn't try to stop the tingling because I knew it was meant to do that. I let out this huge cry after that and felt everything being released.I NEVER usually leave the house or talk on the phone since the whole events occurred during my senior year.. but that same night, I talked to one of my old friends on the phone and we chatted on for hours and my mind didn't come to a blank at ALL! I felt whole again. I was even funnier than he was!! (and he's a big clown) I feel such a relief. The grudge and hate I use to have for my Mother has also dissapeared (she's back on her meds and shes completely fine now), and I can actually talk to her without mumbling one word responses to her. I feel happier than I ever have.. and this was with ONE listening session!!This is an amazing product.. alot more powerful than you'd first think. Try it, you will NOT regret it.

After a lifetime of dealing with a genetic disease that killed half my family, I didn't think any kind of meditation could make any difference at all. I had come to a pont of being so depressed and angry and feeling that life is so unfair and hopeless for some people. I grew up in fundamentalist churches in the Deep South where I was taught that my ancestors had sinned against God, and God put a curse on my family, and we would all keep dying until God was over his anger. I can't even begin to express what kind of damage this does to a child already struggling with overwhelming circumstances in a family. Although I grew up and realized eventually that it was nonsense, I think that kind of teaching takes hold in the subconscious and is very hard to really overcome. I went to bed and started listening to this CD--expecting nothing really, and I don't think I even made it into a full minute before I could feel tears squeezing out & rolling down my face, and before long I was just crying. It happens everytime I listen, but I feel lighter afterwards and not so weighed down with pain. I also don't feel so tired. I love her voice---very calm & soothing. I'm planning to get all of her meditation CD's.

I have purchased several of Belleruth Naparstek's guided imagery series and found them all to be very effective, but this particular one really blew me away. There are similar threads that run through most of the previous ones I've listened to, and some of these are repeated here, but this imagery took me on a wonderful journey through my emotions and released pain and healed trauma I didn't even realize I was holding onto. The music is perfect for this journey, the imagery is very powerful and moving, and I highly recommend this experience for anyone with emotional scars from the past...even if you don't think PTSD affects you. I wasn't sure whether it was appropriate for me before I listened to it, but it turned out to be a perfect way to heal some of the traumas I've been through in my life. I find myself really looking forward to listening to it every night, and gain new insights each time.

It put me to sleep and I have never heard the last half of the thing. I did not need help falling asleep. I needed help with dealing with a traumatic experience I had.

Like being able to listen to this CD while working.

In times past, I've been so disappointed with some audio productions where the voice of the narrator/artist/therapist is just not one I could tolerate listening to very much. BUT Belleruth Naparstek's voice/quality is like a MEDICINE unto itself, and her imagery is so very well constructed, "PERFECT" hardly begins to cover it. SO HELPFUL!I'm going to order the Belleruth Naparstek "Healthful Sleep" guided imagery CD, as I can tell already that, for her voice alone, it'll be amazing! I feel really grateful to have found this - PTSD is so misunderstood - you can do everything the docs tell you & unless they're up on the research, all that they have you try will just make it worse.This, though, this CD, is great!