Belleruth Naparstek has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is Healing Trauma: Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress.
Healing Trauma: Guided Imagery for Posttraumatic Stress
Summary
Can you ever really recover from posttraumatic stress (PTSD)? Psychotherapist, guided imagery pioneer, and trauma expert Belleruth Naparstek says yes, and has the research to prove it. Her powerfully transformative guided meditations were found in four different clinical studies to significantly lower all three clusters of PTS symptoms by six weeks of regular listening, reducing flashbacks, nightmares, isolation, numbing, fear, shame, cynicism, and anger, while restoring a sense of inner goodness, hope, self-esteem, and meaning - all just over the course of eight weeks of regular listening. Naparstek, the author of the award-winning book, Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal, combines this physiologically balancing, psychologically sophisticated, and spiritually inspiring guided narrative with the exquisite scoring of Steven Mark Kohn's music, to deliver a depth charge of healing to survivors of combat and military sexual trauma, childhood abuse, motor vehicle accidents, criminal assault, domestic violence, natural disasters, ICU stays, and traumatic hospital experiences. A separate track of affirmations bolsters the healing process with quick, positive reminders in a briefer format, which can be heard and enjoyed while engaged in other activities, including driving. Another track of the music alone helps to integrate and solidify the deep inner gains achieved through the other two tracks, and ensure they last. Designed for use as a supportive supplement to other treatment approaches for PTSD, or as a stand-alone intervention, this ground breaking program is recommended and distributed by the US Veterans Administration, Kaiser Permanente, The Red Cross, the US Army, and hundreds of hospitals and treatment centers nationwide.
©1999 Health Journeys (P)2016 Health Journeys
A Meditation to Promote General Wellness
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Some guided meditation audios are designed to perennially appeal to just about anyone, and this highly acclaimed, all-purpose wellness and holistic healing meditation by psychotherapist and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek has been one of them for over two decades. By combining affirmations with Steven Mark Kohn's exquisite, immersive music, it promotes peace, relaxation, uplift and resilience of mind, body, and spirit, supporting physical and emotional health seamlessly and naturally. Physiologically accurate imagery of the normal cycle of cell loss and healthy re-growth are translated into metaphors from the natural world of a healing light, breeze and mist, all designed to clear away unhealthy or outworn tissue and make room for strong, new growth. A parallel set of psychological images suggest the clearing away old guilt, fear and resentment, and making way for a fresh, new sense of love, appreciation, and gratitude. The net effect of this beautiful meditation for healing and wellness is a greater feeling of safety and support, a stronger sense of connection to self and others, and a new energy, ease, and inner peace gracing each day. A separate track of affirmations offers briefer versions of the same healing images and ideas, for those who prefer listening to a briefer format, while on the go or even while driving. An additional track of Steve's music on its own helps listeners integrate and solidify the wellness gains they have made with the narratives, ensuring its stability and longevity.
©1993 Health Journeys (P)1993 Health Journeys
Meditation to Help You Control Diabetes
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Can you really improve blood sugar and hemoglobin A1C by relaxing and meditating? Yes, absolutely, and that's why this recording by psychotherapist and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek has been endorsed and distributed by AADE, the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Embedded in this soothing, hypnotic meditation, designed for either Type I or Type II diabetes, are suggestions of the body's receptivity to insulin, whether from an under-utilized, natural supply or from medications, or some combination of both. The physiologically and psychologically sophisticated narrative offers imagery of a steady, balanced digestive process; continuous, on-going organ renewal and repair, and a steady flow of energy and strength, thanks to the healthy, even absorption of nutrients. Other imagery provides extra relaxation and stress relief training for additional stabilization of blood chemistry. There are also suggestions to inspire and motivate self-care and a positive attitude toward the sometimes rigorous and frustrating demands involved in managing diabetes. The exquisite scoring is composed and played by Steven Mark Kohn. Listen to a sample, and see for yourself why this extraordinary guided meditation for diabetes has been such a popular professional and word-of-mouth favorite for years. Better yet, check your blood sugar before and after listening to 10 or 15 minutes of this program, and you'll see that this is an essential addition to your diabetes care toolkit.
©1991 Health Journeys (P)1991 Health Journeys
Invisible Heroes
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If you or someone you love has suffered a traumatic event, you know the devastating impact it can have on your life and your spirit. Life-threatening accidents, illnesses, assaults, abusive relationships, or a tragedy like 9/11 - all can leave deep emotional wounds that persist long after physical scars have healed. Survivors of traumatic events become “invisible heroes”, courageously struggling to lead normal lives in spite of symptoms so baffling and disturbing that they sometimes doubt their own sanity. Now, there is new hope for the millions affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Drawing on more than 30 years’ experience as a therapist and on the most recent cutting-edge research, Belleruth Naparstek presents a clinically proven program for recovery using the potent tool of guided imagery. She reveals how guided imagery goes straight to the right side of the brain, where it impacts the nonverbal wiring of the nervous system itself, the key to alleviating suffering. Filled with the voices of real trauma survivors and therapists whose lives and work have been changed by this approach, Invisible Heroes offers: New understanding of the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of PTSD, who is most susceptible, and why symptoms can get worse rather than better with time Important insights into how the brain and body respond to trauma, why conventional talk therapy can actually impede recovery, and why the nonverbal, image-based right brain is crucial to healing Step-by-step program with more than 20 scripts for guided-imagery exercises tailored to the three stages of recovery, from immediate relief of anxiety attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, and insomnia to freedom from depression and isolation, to renewed engagement with life Helpful guide to the best of the new imagery-based therapies, and how to incorporate them into an overall recovery plan Belleruth Naparstek concludes with the inspiring words of survivors. Her book, which is compassionate and groundbreaking, can lead you and those in your care to the same renewal and healing.
©2004 Belleruth Naparstek (P)2019 Belleruth Naparstek
A Meditation to Help You with Weight Loss
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Does it sound paradoxical that you can lose weight while learning to love and appreciate your body just as it is right now, with all its alleged imperfections? Maybe, but psychotherapist and guided imagery pioneer Belleruth Naparstek's powerful meditation is what doubled weight loss in an eight-week controlled study at Canyon Ranch. Her soothing guided narrative and hypnotic suggestions amplify motivation to eat healthy foods and enjoy physical activity, while speeding up metabolism and envisioning the miraculous biochemical conversion of fat into energy, heat, growth, strength, and movement. Additionally, this book generates a profound sense of love and gratitude for the body, oneself, and others, which heightens serotonin levels in the bloodstream. This in turn reduces appetite, replaces addictive cravings, and increases motivation to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Belleruth's calm, trustworthy, empowering voice is beautifully paired with the exquisite music of Steven Mark Kohn and produced by the Cleveland Orchestra's impeccable sound engineer, Bruce Gigax, to create optimal impact with repeated listening. A separate track of affirmations offers the same images and suggestions in a briefer format, designed for repeated listening while on the go or even while driving. And playing the music alone on the final segment helps listeners integrate at an even deeper level the profound physiological and emotional changes gained on this powerful audio program.
©1997 Health Journeys (P)1997 Health Journeys