You Can Relieve Pain: How Guided Imagery Can Help You Reduce Pain or Eliminate It Altogether

By Ken Dachman

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060920238
• ISBN13: 9780060920234
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Best on Releiving Chronic Pain - Guided Imagery !!!!!!!!

This is a finest HOW TO book I have ever read. Of course, there are strings attached. You must do some imaginary work for a few days. First, I am a librarian at a local university, a husband, a father, and a disabled retiree because of the pain.Some easy to understand conclusions and results follow for your amusement and stimulation regarding the exercises in this book:1. You must accept and practice the exericizes in the middle of the book because it simply makes you competent to heal yourself.2. You must create with your brain (which the authors have you train and prepare) an easy application to visually, aurally, tactilely, tastingly, and olfactorily cut off the sensation of pain. I image valve handles, like copper pipe valves, from the top of my spine down to the middle of my back - AND IT WORKS!!! I just repeatedly close off those valves and the sensory, not motor, nerves slowly stop the communicating pain from the places that hurt to the brain, and OF COURSE !!! the nerves are gradually simultaneously commuicating less and less pain by the sensory nerves back out of the brain and to the head, neck, and right trapezius, which is where it has hurt me for 5 years. It doesn't happen in one session, but many, and YOU ARE IN CHARGE. Nobody else to blame. But the ability to become better each day trying to reduce your pain significantly is a great stimulus to be nearly totally pain free. I can't help but wonder How fast will I become even MORE adept at reducing even more pain, more quickly when fully sensually well-rehearsed. I will be able to pause, do the meditation and lose 99% of the pain in just a few seconds. I have the faith that it will work. I also take presciptions, get plenty of sleep, and eat a low fat diet which helped me lose 10 pounds from October 1 to December 31.3. I will be buying old copies of this book... so I can get my hands on them for friends, and supply my own stock all around the house to read whenever I feel like it and in the car at long stop lights. Someday I will be healed and I will then give my extra copies of the books to my friends - when I am healed, probably the middle of 2003. Nonetheless, I will have to continuously pay attention to "awake" relaxation meditations using the principles and procedures in this book.I would love to see a new edition soon. It took me four years to find a book as good as this. Two thumbs up !!With a little hard work, say 4 or 5 days during the first week, I can now sense when the pain is coming and drop into my meditative state within 3 seconds, breathe slowly, slowly push out all of my abs and stop the preliminary pain from getting worse. By also dropping my shoulders in a slight slump and by tilting the pelvis forward, I maintain a straight RELAXED sitting posture at work. Even with people all around my desk at work, I can pull "My Trigger" of conscious meditation, slow breathing, and a quiet searching for / creating a non-anxiety state of mind which I manifest s