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Guided imagery (also known as guided affective imagery, or katathym-imaginative psychotherapy) is a mind-body intervention to guide participants in generating mental pictures which recreate sensory experiences from memory or imagination. Such sensory perceptions may precipitate strong emotions or feelings. It is used to help work on challenges arising from trauma, sleeplessness, depression, anxiety, disease, addiction, fear, and bipolar disorder. It is also used in hospital settings all over the world to help patients prepare for surgery and to heal more quickly by calming and calling forth the full resources of the nervous system. It may also be used for general relaxation, clarity, focus, and energy.

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The Extraordinary Power of the Imagination in Healing

You could argue that there’s three coding languages, one being your native language, the second being mathematics, [or] ways of representing the world internally to yourself, and the third is through imagery.

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Note to Colleagues: Please Stop Saying Post Traumatic Stress Is Incurable

You can recover from posttraumatic stress. Certainly, you can significantly reduce—not just manage—its symptoms. But—and here’s the thing—not with traditional treatment.

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Finally Figuring Out What Helps Troops with Posttraumatic Stress

The tools that work so well are neither complicated nor expensive. They’re interventions that ping on the primitive structures in the brain, where posttraumatic stress sits and wreaks its havoc. These are tools like guided imagery, relaxation, meditation, hypnosis, and breath work.

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Who Gets Better from Combat Stress (and How)

There are several studies claiming a 70-percent improvement rate for returning warriors who are treated for combat stress with various cognitive behavioral therapies and/or prolonged exposure strategies. But this is a misleading number.

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Complementary Therapies for Pain

Complementary therapies can be used to help with pain. These methods draw your attention away from the pain and release muscle tension caused by pain.

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Relaxation Techniques: Unplug with Imagery: Press ‘Play’ and Go to Your Happy Place

Guided imagery is the lazy man's meditation (or woman's). It's a kind of deliberate, directed daydreaming, using soothing music and narrated suggestions designed to calm, empower, heal and nourish.

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Can Meditation Bolster Mental Health in Soldiers and Veterans?

Our service people are over-medicated downrange, mostly with legal drugs. This creates problems—from slower reaction times to possibly an increased vulnerability to suicide later on.

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What Is Guided Imagery / Guided Meditation?

Guided imagery (sometimes called guided meditation, visualization, mental rehearsal, and guided self-hypnosis) is a gentle but powerful technique that focuses the imagination in proactive, positive ways.

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Healing Touch with Guided Imagery Could Help Relieve PTSD Symptoms in Soldiers, Study Suggests

Some complementary medicine techniques seem to improve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers, according to a small new study.

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Nature-Based Guided Imagery as an Intervention for State Anxiety

Anxiety is a significant mental health issue in modern society and empirical research into effective interventions to address anxiety has been extensive. Spending time in nature is one approach that has demonstrated anxiolytic effects.

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