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Heart Meditations includes three guided imagery programs, each of which gently guides you into your spiritual heart, and then helps you to explore a different aspect of your heart-space. The meditations are warm, healing, and inviting, encouraging you to connect deeply within, and let go of anything in the way. Also included is an explanation and guidance for doing a heart meditation technique that you can practice daily. This simple, yet profound technique can help you become more and more heart-centered over time, and explore all that your heart holds for you.

Each guided meditation helps you stay focused on your current step, uncover the truth, and release negativity. Profoundly relaxing and deeply supportive, 12-Step Guided Meditations reinforces the positive side of your character, and strengthens your connection to your Higher Power. Anyone who approaches this material with a sincere desire to change can benefit.

Stress reduction is easy with this guided relaxation program. The gentle narration and soothing ocean waves will have you feeling relaxed in no time. First, you’ll find yourself walking along a tropical shore on a warm summer day. Soon, you’ll come to a comfy lounge chair and settle in to listen to the waves. There, you’ll enjoy a full-body relaxation, from head to toe. And then you’ll be led through an easy, enjoyable breathing relaxation to help you settle in still deeper. This program is all natural, with no side effects other than feeling very, very good.

Feelings of shyness are based upon deeply held beliefs that others won’t like us, won’t understand us, that we have little in common, and if we reach out, we’ll ultimately be rejected and hurt. But everyone can learn the simple skills of listening and talking to others, and with a little practice, shy people can learn to reach out and make new friends. This guided meditation will help you get over the initial fear of connecting to others by visualizing yourself in social situations, easily meeting people, and enjoying the results.

This program, designed for those serious about making positive changes, helps us go deep within and establish new programming. The guided imagery in Positive Thinking introduces two techniques that are simple to learn and use and draw upon positive imagery from your own life that's already meaningful to you. If you've wanted to make changes and think more positively, but find yourself stuck in a rut of negativity, this program can help you.

This guided imagery meditation, with soft ocean waves and gentle narration, takes you on a morning walk along a secluded beach. Soon you meet a dear old friend, loved one, or significant figure in your life who's come to assist you. Their unconditional love toward you helps you open your own heart, explore anything you've held against yourself, and release it. As you sit watching the waves, your own inner child appears on your lap, ready now to receive the kind of healing and reassurance only you can provide.

How do you feel about your body? The way you see yourself, and your attitude about your body, greatly influence your self-esteem, your emotional well-being, and even your physical health. If you’re interested in improving your health, recovering from illness, losing weight, or becoming more fit, never underestimate the importance of your body image. And if you struggle with an eating disorder, you’ll want to pay especially careful attention to this issue.

Whenever we experience events that are overwhelmingly painful, part of ourself is left in the past, unresolved, almost in a kind of suspended animation, until such time as we’re able to heal and release the pain. Carrying the memory of a traumatic event is a bit like living in a house with a room that’s closed off. We never want to enter that room because of the painful feelings it holds, but we can’t clean it up and remodel it without going through the door.

Sometimes we fail to see the gifts surrounding us, looking everywhere else. An outside perspective can change our view. In this gentle meditation, an encounter with a deer brings us into an enchanted state where we can see the beauty in our lives, and appreciate all we've been given. This program uses guided imagery to lead you on a quiet walk along a forest path, another world...

Your mother shaped your opinion of women and showed you what to expect from them. If your mother instilled anger, fear, or sadness in you, that can infect all of your relationships. But we don’t have to continue to carry negativity toward our parents. And we can never fully come into our own without first letting go of those feelings. It’s important to keep the positive memories but release the negativity that might otherwise darken your relationships with women going forward. This program will help you do just that.

We don’t have to continue to carry negativity toward our parents. We can never fully come into our own without first letting go of those feelings. It’s important to keep the positive memories but release the negativity that might otherwise darken your relationships with men going forward. This program will help you do just that.

An early-morning visit to the beach brings you the sand, the sea, and the salt air - an escape to a place where you can forget about life's problems, deeply relax, and experience healing and inner peace. Wading in, you’re embraced by gentle waves as layer after layer of tension melts away, and you feel more and more at peace. A group of dolphins comes to visit and celebrate your healing, and one takes you on a magical ride. Experience yourself as pure energy, floating free, with this gentle guided meditation at the seashore.