Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #717197 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-01
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio Cassette

From Library Journal
This audiobook repackages three of Naparstek's popular "Health Journeys" series into a very useful program for the person who seeks to improve overall health and well-being. The listener is offered techniques to obtain the base elements of good health: assisting the body to maintain health and to heal when ill; reducing and controlling stress; and getting quality sleep. Each title offers differing techniques, based on guided imagery. Only some of the introductory material, which includes safety warnings, is repeated. In two of the sets, Naparstek includes a section of affirmations to help invoke the conscious and unconscious parts of oneself to assist in healing. General Wellness offers an exercise as well as affirmations to help users call upon inner and outer resources to maintain health. Healthful Sleep presents an exercise followed by a music program that can help lull the listener toward a relaxed sleep. Stress offers the most varied techniques, to reduce general anxiety and develop a more objective view of those things that one does, or does not, control. There is also a "walking meditation" that people who cannot sit still for guided imagery find useful. Naparstek's pacing is excellent, and the background music is nonintrusive. Highly recommended for all public libraries and health collections that do not own the individual volumes or where a basic tool to promote general health is wanted. Kathleen Sullivan, Phoenix P.L.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
With over twenty guided imagery programs to her name, Belleruth Naparstek is a practiced and positive guide to the healing power of the mind-body connection, through "deliberate, directed daydreaming." Her slow, almost monotonous voice is, at the same time, soothing, calming, caring, and accepting. She outlines each of the individual programs, tells the listener what to expect, cautions against listening while driving, then begins the relaxation and imagery. The combination of Kohn's music--simple cascading harp, string, and piano sounds--and Naparstek's narration has a calming effect, lulling the entire body to relax. Each program is focused on a specific area, while the whole package is sure to help the listener relax and let go of stress, anxiety, and sleeplessness. W.L.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine