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The extraordinary skills of meditation and guided imagery are at the heart of Dr. Miller’s work and Mind-Body Medicine. Here you will find numerous opportunities to experience Dr. Miller’s artistry in creating a soothing and inspiring vocal guidance, woven through a tapestry of lovely music and nature sounds – all dedicated to helping you guide your mind, body, emotions, and spirit towards healing and peak performance. Learn and experience the power of “Software for the Mind” – Deep relaxation, meditation, prayer, and guided imagery – as Dr. Miller guides you into an enjoyable and exquisitely receptive state of mind and body, the Healing State, then offers Guided Imagery to help you heal your body, manage and cope with stress, change your mind, and change your life!
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Change Habits, Addictions, and Behaviors [Free Guided Meditation] | This meditation is an excerpt from Dr. Miller's Lecture: How to Change Your Habits, Addictions, and Behaviors, presented on April 19th. Register for Dr. Miller's next lecture, "Heal Your Relationships - The Magic and Power of Harmony" on May 17th. Tickets & reservations at 530-478-1807 or email DrMiller@DrMiller.com. Unwanted habits, addictions, self-defeating patterns of behavior are something we all have to deal with – and we often fail to make the changes we want to make. Fortunately, there are effective tools that can give us the power to tune into our minds and bodies and gently convince them to behave in ways that support our lives. Listen to Change Your Habits, Addictions, and Behaviors [Free Guided Meditation] Learn how to access the power of your emotions, quiet the intensity of your cravings, and use mental imagery to create new goals and motivations for your unconscious mind. Just as a dog or monkey can be trained to behave in certain ways, your mind and body (in essence, the “animal” part of you) have been trained to behave. And just as a computer can be reprogrammed, you can reprogram your mind and body to overcome urges, impulses, and addictions. Use this meditation to support the changing of such maladaptive patterns as overeating, overspending, over drinking, smoking, and gambling – as well as more subtle ones as procrastination, impulsiveness, or failing to establish positive patterns of exercising or relating to others. Please join Dr. Miller for his next lecture, "Heal Your Relationships - The Magic and Power of Harmony" on May 17th 7-9:30pm at Unity in the Gold Spiritual Center, Grass Valley CA, which is part of an on-going series of lectures/workshops by Dr. Miller. Tickets & reservations at 530-478-1807 or email DrMiller@DrMiller.com. About the Author: Emmett Miller MD is a Nevada City psychotherapist and mind-body physician who has guided thousands to manifest healthy relationships. Enjoy this website and take advantage of the free self-help tools and free gifts for those who subscribe to his free Healing Times eNewsletter. [1] Miller, Emmett, Our Culture on the Couch – 7 Steps to Global Healing Connect online: If you enjoyed this Guided Meditation Podcast, please subscribe to our Free Guided Meditation Podcast Channel! Please Connect with Dr. Miller Online: Subscribe, rate, and review in iTunes or with another podcatcher Join the Ask Dr. Miller Facebook Page Follow Dr. Miller on Twitter! Receive 2 Free Gifts when you sign up for Healing Times eNewsletter. We will make sure you are notified of any new Free Guided Meditations! | 10 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Beacon of Love and Peace [Free Guided Meditation] | Enjoy a journey within to the source of light, an experience and reaffirmation of Love, and an opportunity to kindle compassion and joy and radiate peace and spirit to the world. Listen Now to this Free Winters Meditation: A Beacon of Love and Peace Guided Imagery Meditation Script: Journey within Come to your senses, and notice to what degree you are seeing, hearing, feeling and thinking about things in the external world. As I count, relax and allow your senses to release any hold on the exterior, allow your awareness to come within. Find a place in your heart and mind in which you feel stable, calm, peaceful, and loving. Use whatever spiritual, psychological, energetic, and physical tools or technique to help you accomplish this. Experience yourself being visited by those you love and have loved, and those who love you and have loved you. Be aware of what a gift love is. Feel it kindling warmth in your heart. • Imagine as clearly and lovingly as you can, your connections to the rest of humanity, to the world of nature and the land, and to whatever spiritual forces and images of sacredness are meaningful to you. Feel those connections enhance your presence by enabling you to be part of a larger wholeness, one graced with compassion, love and an intelligent, wise awareness. • Hold your sense of yourself within that enhanced presence and feel its energy go out to your immediate environment, connecting in loving ways with the specific world around you. Imagine you are overflowing with this energy, that it radiates from you like a beautiful golden light, spreading out to all around you. Feel yourself respecting and honoring the light of those around you. And if you wish, imagine it spreads out from you and from your kindred spirits and loved ones, that it flows out to the community, and even planetwide, drawing together in peaceful collaboration, people who have been split apart by differences of race, politics, ethnicity, religion, geography. As you feel and see them, hold them in the grace of a loving, peaceful spirit, and imagine they discover peaceful ways to communicate with each other. And if there’s a specific area of conflict you wish to direct this energy towards, visualize that conflict dissolving into peace and agape – true love. Now, as you gradually return your senses and awareness to the world around you, imagine that your very being radiates light, like a lighthouse, a beacon of stability, peace, calm, forgiveness, love, and compassion. Imagine waves of light and love spreading out and joining with the waves of other, similar, lighthouses – other people working to express peace, compassion and love in their lives. And as these waves connect, they are weaving a web of light that is spreading all around, empowering all of us, everywhere. Imagery inspired by David Spangler | 23 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spiritual Lessons from A Life in Acting: A Conversation with Dee Wallace | Dr. Miller has for his guest on Conversations with Extraordinary People actress Dee Wallace. You are most familiar with her from her leading role in ET – The Extraterrestrial, although she has been featured prominently in many other movies such as The ... | 8 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Worry Solution – A conversation with Dr. Rossman [Thursday April 19th, 12-1pm PST] | Our guest this month is Professor Martin Rossman, whose work has paralleled mine for several decades, during which time we have been colleagues and friends. There seems to be so much to worry about these days – from global warming and peak oil to our children’s schools, our jobs, and even whether the food we eat has been contaminated – it seems impossible to predict what will come next. If you’re one of the people who worries about any of the concerns I just mentioned – or about your teenage kid, your job, your health, or what those people in Washington some folks call "idiots" are going to do next – then this is a show you would definitely be interested in. Listen Now: Did you know that there’s good worry and bad worry? Apparently nature has wired us to worry, and so Dr. Rossman explains in his book, The Worry Solution, that it’s futile to try to stop. The good news is that worry itself is a neutral function of our imagination — a reflection of the brain’s ability to look at a problem from many different angles and to identify different pieces of the puzzle. In this interview Dr. Rossman will share the difference between good worry and bad worry, and tell us how to use worry effectively, that is how to worry well! You will learn the value of having an inner pow-wow, the importance of utilizing a different state of mind to make worry more efficient and less wasteful, and how to use affirmations to put energy behind your choices among several options. We’ll talk about image rehearsal and the use of positive emotion and visualization for success. We’ll also explore the nature of “bad worry” and learn some of the ways we can free ourselves from it. Dr. Rossman is a wise and careful doctor and with a lot to teach us all. Dr. Rossman, a pioneer in mind-body medicine, is the founder of The Healing Mind, the co-founder of the Academy for Guided Imagery, a Clinical Faculty member at the University of California San Francisco Medical School, and an advisory board member of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rossman’s cutting-edge research in guided imagery has contributed to the current paradigm of holistic health and has influenced the work of many of its prominent leaders, including Drs. Weil, Dean Ornish, and Rachel Remen. Dr. Rossman has authored numerous books and CDs, including Guided Imagery for Self-Healing and Fighting Cancer from Within, and his work has been featured in academic, trade, and popular national media outlets including O, Self, Body & Soul, and CNN. The Worry Solution (Crown Archetype Books, Dec 2010) is Dr. Rossman’s latest ground-breaking contribution to the field of preventative medicine. It teaches readers how to capitalize on the powerful mental force behind worry – utilizing the imagination to facilitate positive growth, change, and healing, instead of letting it run us into the ground with debilitating stress, anxiety, and disease. About The Worry Solution: Nature has wired us to worry, Dr. Rossman explains in The Worry Solution, so it’s futile to try to stop. The good news is that worry itself is a neutral function of our imagination — a reflection of the brain’s ability to look at a problem from many different angles and to identify and tease apart the different pieces of a puzzle. What makes worry negative or positive, Dr. Rossman explains, is the way we use it. Unproductive worry sets us off on a mental hamster wheel of obsessive thoughts — effectively triggering the stress response that is behind a slew of chronic and/or life-threatening illnesses, from fibromyalgia to obesity to heart disease. Productive worry, to the contrary, helps us solve problems, prevent disease, and achieve peace of mind. The Worry Solution offers not only helpful information but also its practical application — providing readers with numerous hands-on, easy-to-use guided imagery techniques that can be done in the comfort of o | 11 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Healing Depression and PTSD: A Conversation with Dr. James Gordon | Dr. Gordon is a physician who, like Dr. Miller, while in medical school, became interested in a different approach to medicine, one which honored the potential for self healing and self help in medicine. He trained in Psychiatry, then went on to found, in 1991, the Center for Mind Body Medicine. Through the center he has trained thousands of health professionals around the world to apply Deep Relaxation, Meditation, Guided Imagery, and other person-centered approaches to deal with post traumatic stress during the acute phase - in trouble spots like Kosovo and Haiti, and with traumatized US veterans. Listen Now:Download MP3 at the end of this article. In this show we will explore the value of imagery for adjusting autonomic responses, as well as the immune and endocrine systems, and discuss the seven phases of depression, why it is better to not think of depression as a disease, but the start of an important life journey. Dr. Gordon will present an overview of his latest book, Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression. We will touch on the importance of deep relaxation, the value of a guide, the dark night of the soul, and the spiritual connection. Dr. Miller will then present a brief guided imagery experience drawn from his CD program, Escape From Depression. Check out this short video showing Dr. Gordon’s work with traumatized people in the Gaza Strip James S. Gordon, MD, a Harvard educated psychiatrist, is a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medicine to heal depression, anxiety, and psychological trauma. He is the Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, Dean of the Graduate School of Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook University, a Clinical Professor at Georgetown Medical School, and recently served as Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body healing for physicians, medical students and other health professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses; and for traumatized children and families in Bosnia, Kosovo, Israel and Gaza as well as in post-9/11 New York and post-Katrina southern Louisiana. His most recent book is Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression (Penguin Press). If you enjoyed this Healing Times Radio: Conversations with Extraordinary People Podcast, please subscribe to our other podcast channel, Free Guided Imagery & Meditations Please Connect with Dr. Miller Online: Subscribe, rate, and review in iTunes or with another podcatcher Join the Ask Dr. Miller Facebook Page Follow Dr. Miller on Twitter! Receive 2 Free Gifts when you sign up for Healing Times eNewsletter. We will make sure you are notified of any new shows! About Healing Times Radio: Conversations with Extraordinary People Welcome to Healing Times Radio. Since being a part of the launching of the holistic approach to healing and the field of Holistic Medicine 40 years ago it has been Dr. Miller's passion to seek out other thought leaders – the movers and shapers who could see the disaster looming for our world and were setting about crafting the tools that would help transform the world. Those few who, like Dr. Miller, were in the medical and psychological field could see the enormous waste in our health care system, the crisis it was leading to. The tools they developed – guided imagery, mindfulness, meditation, wellness, nutritional medicine, and physical exercise physiology – are now transforming mainstream medicine. Those in other fields (organizational development, sociobiology, ecology, climatology, leadership) were developing their respective instruments and tools (e.g., The World Cafe, Gather The Women, Peak Moment TV, People's Pharmacy) His relationships with this extraordinary cadre have developed through the decades, | 6 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Warm Winters Meditation on Gratitude [podcast] | For many of us, the world moves along so quickly, and the endless stream of appointments, phone calls, emails, and other Things That Need To Be Done Next continually distracts us from the all important step of positive feedback. The nature of our world is such that many decisions need to be made by the unconscious levels of the mind. Unless we create a clear, compelling image of the way we want to be and the life we want to create, that part of us may head in the wrong direction. And with so many negative messages (eg, economic woes, climate change, illness, pollution, politics), it is easy to lose our way and succumb to the toxicity of stress and depression. Actually, there are many more positives within than negatives, and here is a way to make these known to your faithful unconscious mind – to really assume leadership in your life – by touching the positive experiences of the recent past and connecting them to the deepest level of your being. In this way you are setting your compass – and empowering the behaviors and experiences you want more of in your life. So find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for ten minutes and recharge! Listen to an Attitude of Gratitude Meditation: | 15 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anti-Cancer Guided Imagery, Empowering Your Immune System – A Mental Reboot | In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I have prepared this special free deep relaxation and guided imagery experience. I had the honor of co-founding the second cancer self-help center in the world, and the first that began to train interns. It's hard to believe these days, where EVERY self respecting hospital, medical center, and clinic has patient self-help groups, that in 1977 there were NONE. Listen Here: In those days patients could not utter the word "cancer" without trembling in fear, and physicians and families would often hide from people the fact that they had cancer. We discovered that patients who visualized their white cells as aggressive, even vicious, attacking agents, and the cancer cells as being weak and confused had much more favorable outcomes. The imagery here is based on that which we used at the center, where i remained as medical director for 20 years. This should be a welcome addition to the other CDs of imagery for cancer patients. I have recently published new CDs for those in chemo or radiation therapy. Feel free to forward to anyone with any kind of cancer, with my best wishes for complete healing. Learn more about How Guided Imagery and Meditation Can Assist in Cancer Treatment Learn More About Dr. Miller's Cancer Support Products and Free Resources About Dr. Miller's Cancer Support Guided Imagery and Meditation CDs, MP3 Downloads, DVDs and Books. Listen to a FREE Guided Imagery: Anti-Cancer Guided Imagery, Empowering Your Immune System Listen to Elizabeth L. Richeson, Ph.D., M.S. PhysPharm speaking about her own use of Dr. Miller's Guided Imagery recordings in her profession and in her personal battle with Cancer. Listen to Dr. Dr. Richeson: Questions and Conversation: Let me know what you think of this guided imagery experience. What other Guided Imagery Experience do YOU want to hear? What would be most beneficial? How are YOU using guided imagery in your healing? Listen & Share Anti-Cancer Guided Imagery & Meditation : | 1 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Answer to Cancer – How Guided Imagery and Meditation Can Assist in Cancer Treatment [Podcast] | What’s the first thing to do if you get a diagnosis of cancer? Grab a deep relaxation and guided imagery CD! Really. It could save your life. Listen to Dr. Miller Reading this Article: When people first receive the message from their physician that their body may be harboring a potentially fatal disease, they are usually dumbfounded, commonly frightened, and often emotionally traumatized. This is unfortunate, since such reactions of helplessness associated with the illness create an internal physiological and psychological state which may actually impair the body’s ability to defend itself against this invader. Since guided imagery in the state of deep relaxation has been shown to assist the healing process in many illnesses, including cancer, it should be made available as soon as possible to anyone newly diagnosed with cancer – as well as those with other chronic illnesses. It’s the least expensive, fastest, and possibly the most important single thing you can do. A patient’s physical comfort and perception of pain can often be markedly altered, as can their attitude, mood, willingness to undergo invasive procedures, or to participate actively in the treatment – even their ability to successfully survive the treatment. All these are profoundly influenced by the attitude and the mental self image he or she has, of the disease, of the treatment, and of those who are rendering care. Certain ways of approaching the illness are far more likely to produce a successful outcome, cure and complete healing. Well-designed guided imagery and deep relaxation – what I call “Software for the Mind” – functions to enable the person to move through acceptance, to awaken the inner potential to heal and become whole, and to free the body of the stress that could otherwise worsen the illness. And the sooner an individual begins this process, the better. I will describe some of the most important ways that these tools can be used as valuable adjuncts to treatment in a moment, but first lets look at the role of your mental imagery in preventing cancer. Guided Imagery and The Prevention of Cancer Of course the best use of guided imagery in confronting the challenges of cancer is to employ it at the stage of prevention Sometimes, for example, a woman with breast lump or unusual bleeding, or a man who notices an abnormal mole on his skin will avoid seeing a health professional because of fear they experience when they consider that this might be a cancer. Yet by avoiding that cognitive dissonance they fail to have the mass removed before it spreads, and while it is still curable. A different mental image can be developed, one which could tolerate the idea of having an unknown mass checked out, and save their lives. Another example is represented by the person who needs to change their inner imagery is the person who engages in behaviors that can lead to the development of cancer – such assmoking or exposing him or herself to other toxic substances, or eating an unhealthy diet (fat, charred meat, low vegetable intake). Guided imagery techniques can help resolve the emotional states that underlie such self-destructive behaviors. A few counseling visits and/or the use of the appropriate CDs are often all that is needed. (For example, see Weight Loss/Management and Smoke No More) The Power of Imagery and Meditation in the Clinical Setting One of the physician’s first challenges is how to inform the person that they may have cancer. The mental image the doctor creates in the mind of the patient is very important. Because of this natural reaction of fear, rather than face the emotions, the doctor will sometimes try to be matter-of-fact about it, saying something insensitive, like, “Your tests showed that you may possibly have a rapidly-growing cancer that could kill you within 6 to 12 months. I will take another biopsy today to confirm the diagnosis. Come back in a week and I will let you know what we find out. | 28 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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