Staying Well with Guided Imagery with Belleruth Naparstek

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At some point in our lives, we all seek to improve our moods, heal our bodies, and reach our goals. Guided imagery audio programs can assist and reduce symptoms for those dealing with physical and mental health issues as well as situational challenges. It provides powerful ways to alleviate distress, reduce anxiety, promote restful sleep, and enhance surgery outcomes. It can improve peak performance, resilience, mastery, and creativity. Today we’ll be speaking with one of the pioneers of such programs. When she underwent a very complicated hip replacement she was able to use her own techniques in talking to muscles that were moved from one place to be used by her hip joint in another way. Here is what she said to her muscles. ”You're going to love being my hip muscle even though you were someplace else. Just work with me here.” She goes on to say, “We want an alliance with our bodies, we want to appreciate the fact that they've done the best they could. Our bodies have stuck with us, put up with our abuse, our neglect, and our bad behaviors . . . I think of my body, as imperfect as it is, as my oldest buddy and steadiest companion. . . . And, you know, as you get older, there's more cause for enlisting them to help out.” She reminds us that the language of the body is sensation and the language of the thinking mind is ideas. Guided imagery mixes them together for a powerful experience. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

 Bio

 Belleruth Naparstek is a psychotherapist, author, and guided imagery pioneer, She, along with George Klein, launched the Health Journeys guided imagery audio series in 1991. Since then, this audio library has expanded to include over 250 carefully curated, science-based, meditations that target a wide range of physical and mental health conditions. Many major medical institutions, departments of corporate human resources, and wellness centers provide this content to their members. Some of these organizations include Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins, the US Veterans Health Administration, the Mayo Clinic, Blue Shield of California, Progressive Insurance, the US Armed Services and many more. 

Belleruth Naparstek is the author of: 

• Staying Well With Guided Imagery (Warner Books 1995)
• Your Sixth Sense (HarperSanFrancisco 1998)
• Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal (Bantam 2004) 

To learn more about the work of Belleruth Naparstek go to www.healthjourneys.com. 

Topics explored in this dialogue include: 

• How Naparstek’s first encounter with guided visualization was with Ericksonian Hypnosis
• What was the compelling story of Naparstek’s first guided imagery for dealing with breast cancer
• What is her advice in choosing a guided imagery program and producer for you
• What can guided imagery do for us with chronic stress and anxiety
• Her approach for looking beyond our bodies betraying us when we get an illness
• How she talked her body into repurposing her muscles when they were moved to assist in her hip replacement
• What was Justine’s experience with using Naparstek’s Successful Surgery Guided Imagery program
• How being scared and anxious about an upcoming event can give better results
• What was the Japanese study that had people rubbed with poison ivy
• What research shows regarding diabetes and guided imagery
• How guided imagery helps with cognitive focus
• How guided imagery can help you tap into your deep body wisdom and super-charge its facility to be strategic in its discrimination
• How guided imagery can help with getting enough rest and sleep
• Who are some of the people Naparstek recommends on her website for guided imagery
• How Naparstek has worked with PTSD and the Veterans Administration
• Healing the ancestral trauma in our DNA

Host: Justine Willis Toms   Interview Date: 5/14/2021   Program Number: 3731  

Music Playlist

From Album: Homage to Kindness
Artist: David Darling

Opening Essay: Track 01 The Beauty of All Things
Music Break 1: Track 02 Homage to Kindness
Music Break 2: Track 03 The Great X
Music Break 3: Track 14 Dulce