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Doc at Crossroads Talks of “Halo Effect” from Using Guided Imagery |
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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We found this wonderful reaction to guided imagery in general and Martha Howard’s guided meditation for Keys To Your Highest Potential in particular, posted as a review comment on our site:
This is an extremely valuable item--worth every penny spent and every minute spent. I was deterred at first, since it was only 25 minutes--I felt that it would not have as much value as others on this site.
After some trial and error, I came back to this one, and I am very glad that I did. I had first been introduced to Belleruth Naparstek when I was given a complimentary chemotherapy CD. I listened to it religiously for 6 months while I underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for breast cancer. It helped me immensely in dealing with the discomfort of the procedures.
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Proof that “Mental Rehearsal” Changes the Brain in Stroke Patients |
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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Researchers from the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Cincinnati’s Academic Medical Center looked at the impact of “mental practice” (the imaginal rehearsal of physical movements) on affected arm movements in stroke patients, as well as changes in cortical mapping in the brain.
Mental practice (MP) is a noninvasive, inexpensive method of enabling repetitive, task-specific practice (RTP) which has been shown in past studies to increase affected arm use and function significantly more than just RTP alone.
As a next step, this 10-subject case series examined the possibility
that cortical plasticity is a mechanism underlying the positive
treatment effect from mental practice (MP) when combined with RTP
(repetitive task-specific practice). Ten chronic stroke patients (mean
= 36.7 months) exhibiting stable, moderate motor deficits, received
30-minute therapy sessions for their affected arms 3 days/week for 10
weeks, emphasizing valued activities of daily living (ADLs). |
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Can Imagery Help with Reading Comprehension & Retention? |
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Monday, 19 October 2009 |
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Dear Belleruth,
I use several of your tapes. I have difficulty when reading to concentrate on what I'm reading. My mind continues to wonder and cannot remember what I have read. This has been going on for years. So, if I would ever have to take a test, I would panic. Is there a tape that you could recommend? At the moment I have been using your tape of self confidence.
Thanks,
Cathy
Dear Cathy,
The Self-Confidence imagery is a good choice, as would be the imagery for Panic Attacks,
which teaches basic self-regulation and relaxation skills, as well as
offers imagery that reframes panic to a physiologically similar but far
pleasanter condition: exhilaration, as the result of mastery (your
heart pounds either way). |
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Can Imagery Put Flow Back into His Piano Playing? |
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 |
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Question:
I would love a guided imagery to improve my piano playing. It isn't exactly anxiety that holds me back - it seems to be a lack of openness or fluidity with the music. I haven't been able to find this anywhere, and I hope you'll consider doing one. I love all the others of yours that I've used.
Tom |
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What Are the Signs of Genuine Intuition Happening? |
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 |
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Question:
Ok, I know that your book "Your Sixth Sense: Activating Your Psychic Potential" is a very old book by now, but I was wondering what you said that happens before one would receive psi information that they might hear a high pitched sound or different tones...
Well, since I've been reading it, I have been paying a lot more attention to my thoughts and attempting to find my "inner voice".
So I've noticed that there is always a very high pitched tone in my mind all the time, although it is harder to notice when my brain is in a scramble...but it is still there.
I was wondering if that would mean that I could be receiving intuitive information all the time and i just need to open up the "third eye" to receive it?
Lauren |
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Short-Form Meditation W/ Imagery Yields Super Attentional Focus, Self-Regulation |
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 |
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Researchers from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China, set out to explore why five days of integrative body-mind training (IBMT)* improves attentional focus and self-regulation better than relaxation training. The underlying mechanisms were sought by measuring physiological and brain changes at rest before, during, and after 5 days of IBMT and relaxation training.
[*IBMT is a meditation practice developed by Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang, a pioneer in studying neurological effects of meditation, by modifying and simplifying Chinese Tao meditation. It doesn’t focus on thoughts in the mind, but rather a state of restful alertness from a high level of body awareness, augmented by the breath and guided imagery with music.]
During and after training, the IBMT group showed significantly
better physiological reactions in heart rate, respiratory amplitude and
rate, and skin conductance response (SCR) than the relaxation controls.
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Imagining Finger Movement Improves Function After Surgery |
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 |
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Researchers from the Department of Plastic Surgery of University Medical Center Groningen, in The Netherlands, sought to see whether practicing motor imagery during the immobilization period after flexor tendon injury results in a faster recovery of hand function.
The randomized controlled trial included 28 patients, post-surgery for flexor tendon repair, who were randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a control group. |
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Seeing future success: does imagery perspective influence achievement motivation? |
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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Researchers from the Dept of Psychology at York University in Toronto find that imagining future success does indeed enhance people’s motivation to achieve success, and that third-person imagery does this more effectively than first person. |
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Effects of imagery training on cognitive performance and use of physiological measures as an assessm |
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007 |
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Researchers at the Greek Aerospace Medical Association and Space Research find that mental practice improves performance in 20 healthy volunteers during a flight simulation program, as compared with passively watching performance... |
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Comparing the effects of physical practice and mental imagery rehearsal on learning surgical skills |
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
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Researchers at Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center
studied the the effects of varying the amount of physical practice and
mental imagery rehearsal on learning basic surgical procedures. Using a
sample of 65 second-year medical students, 3 randomized groups received
either: (1) 3 sessions of physical practice on suturing a pig''s foot;
(2) 2 sessions of physical practice and 1 session of mental imagery
rehearsal; or (3) 1 session of physical practice and 2 sessions of
imagery rehearsal. All participants then performed a surgery on a live
rabbit in the operating theater of a veterinary college under approved
conditions. Analysis of variance was applied to pre- and post-treatment
ratings of surgical performance. |
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