Optimizing the quality of healthcare
Over the past 40 years, the effectiveness of guided imagery has been validated by research, demonstrating its positive impact on health, wellness, attitude, behavioral change and peak performance.
* Less than 10 minutes of hypnotic guided meditation can reduce stress, blood pressure, cholesterol and hemoglobin A1C levels in the blood.
* It can heighten short- term immune cell activity, and it can speed up healing from fractures and burns.
* It’s been shown to reduce blood loss during surgery and opioid use after it.
* Guided imagery lowers anxiety and pain.
* It increases athletic mastery at skiing, skating, shooting, golf and tennis; and skill and confidence at writing, acting, singing, test-taking and public speaking.
* It increases purposeful weight loss and smoking abstinence.
* And it has been proven invaluable during medical procedures like chemotherapy, radiotherapy, ventilator weaning, biopsy and dialysis.
* Regular use of guided imagery can heighten access to emotional depth, humor, responsiveness to music, spirituality, intuition, creativity, abstract thinking and empathy.
So subtle, safe and gentle as this technique is, guided imagery meditation can be a surprisingly powerful tool, and increasingly so over time. Who Can Use It? It requires no training or discipline – just the ability to press Play.