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Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery Paperback – July 1, 1989

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The comprehensive guide to imagery therapy for: the common cold, bone fractures, arthritis, hypertension, headaches, asthma, infertility, depression, pms, anxiety, obesity, and much more
 
For years it has been widely known that the mind exerts a tremendous influence on our physical well-being—often determining the difference between health and disease. In Healing Visualizations, Dr. Gerald Epstein, a psychiatrist and pioneer in waking dream therapy, provides a new vision of how the mind can help heal the body through the power of “imaginal medicine.”
 
Developed over fifteen years of clinical practice, Dr. Epstein’s safe, potent techniques for tapping the mind’s healing energy enable us to influence our own health with remarkably fast, positive results. More than seventy-five exercises cover specific health problems form common ailments such as allergies, colds, backaches, headaches, and arthritis to life-threatening illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Each exercise takes just one to five minutes. And there are special visualizations for overall wellness that you can personalize to fit your own daily health and fitness needs.
 
A revolutionary and inspiring program, Healing Visualizations is a major contribution to understanding, restoring, and maintaining the healthful unity of body and mind.
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Psychoanalyst Epstein became intrigued with the curative powers of mental imagery through the influence of Mme. Colette Aboukler-Muscat while in Jerusalem in 1974. Having mastered the techniques of "waking dream therapy," which postulates the unity of mind and body, he espouses visual imagery, "the thinking used for making contact with our inner subjective reality" for curing both physical and emotional problems. Much of this book contains specific instructions for evoking the appropriate imagery to cure afflictions ranging from acne to warts, and including cancer, hemorrhoids, and scoliosis. A separate chapter focuses on imagery for promoting good health. The book includes pointers for developing successful imaging techniques and will appeal to those readers interested in alternative medical practices.
- Carol R. Glatt, Northeastern Hosp. of Philadelphia
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"An exciting, definitive book. Epstein has formulated an immensely useful catalog of visualizations. One can imagine a time in the not-too-distant future when such a book stands next to standard medical reference books in every household. A real contribution to the healing arts."
--Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy



"Dr. Gerald Epstein has rediscovered a time-honored truth--mental images can heal, just like medications or the surgeon's scalpel. Healing Visualizationsshows us how. Here is a simple, free, and effective therapy that can change your life."
--Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Space, Time and Medicine and Recovering the Soul



"This important book exploring an ancient yet revolutionary means for self-healing offers the user an invaluable compendium of visualization practices for almost any occasion... Dr. Epstein's work in this area is ground breaking."
--Joan Halifax, Ph.D., author, anthropologist, and president of The Ojai Foundation




"Dr. Epstein draws on his own clinical experience...to urge an active role in our own health and healing through the use of mental imagery and visualization. This book is filled with helpful information, easy-to-do imagery exercises, and inspiring case studies."
--Eileen Rockefeller Growald, founder, Advancement of Health

'An extraordinarily useful and practical guide, which draws upon the most recent scientific evidence to develop innovative optimal health practices:'
--Kenneth Pelletier, M.D., author of Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; Reissue edition (July 1, 1989)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553346237
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553346237
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Gerald Epstein, M.D., has been a pioneer in the use of mental imagery for treating physical and emotional problems. With more that 40 years of training in the mind, he is a leading proponent of the Western spiritual tradition and its application to healing and therapeutics. Dr. Epstein maintains a private practice in New York City and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He has lectured and taught worldwide. He founded and directs the American Institute for Mental Imagery (AIMI). As a NYS Regents Chartered School, AIMI offers courses to the general public in healing and the western spiritual path as well certificate programs for licensed mental health professionals.

He is a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Grant in Alternative Medicine to research the effects of mental imagery in the treatment of bronchial asthma. He has authored several mental imagery classic books and cds including: Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery, Healing Into Immortality, The Phoenix Process, Kabbalah For Inner Peace and The Natural Laws of Self-Healing. In 2012, he was awarded "Imagery Person of the Year" by Imagery International. Most recently, he completed the "Encyclopedia of Mental Imagery: Colette Aboulker-Muscat's 2100 Visualization Exercises for Personal Development, Healing and Self-Knowledge"

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Customers find the book helpful and educational. They appreciate the well-explained healing visualization techniques and mental images provided for each ailment or condition. The author provides a good foundation around visualizations, giving you some things to think about and a "how to" guide. Readers describe the content as clear, concise, and easy to understand.

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Customers find the book helpful and educational. They say it's a valuable addition to any holistic library, providing excellent information about the effect of mind on healing and general health. The book is described as inspiring and an interesting read.

"...For me, this book was a life-saver. If you are suffering from chronic pain or another chronic disease, please read this book and give it a chance...." Read more

"...A sense of purpose even for the most skeptical humans. In reality, as a human race we've always known the tactics rattled in these pages were true...." Read more

"Enjoyed the book and using the visualizations...." Read more

"...You can't put it plainer and this realisation alone to me is worth the purchase...." Read more

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Customers find the healing visualization techniques well-explained in this book. They appreciate the specific mental images provided for each condition or ailment. The author provides a good foundation around visualizations, giving you some things to think about and a "how to". There is a visualization for almost every ailment or condition in this manual. The book teaches self-healing and is a must for holistic practitioners. The image exercises are clearly worded, easy to perform, and convincing. It's a good book for creating health for yourself and others, and it ties spiritual with medical aspects.

"...It gave me hope and a feeling of power. The wonderful nurse practitioner moved on (God bless him -- I owe him so much!) but I kept with it...." Read more

"...is a rich and inviting narrative that goes beyond traditional medical and scientific recommendations- or at least what we classify within those terms..." Read more

"Enjoyed the book and using the visualizations...." Read more

"...It was exactly what I was looking for. The author lays a good foundation around visualizations, giving you some things to think about and a "how to"..." Read more

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Customers find the book easy to understand and follow. They appreciate the clear, well-written ideas and advice. The techniques are simple to follow, and the content is good. Readers also mention that the narratives are presented carefully and curated by the author's lifetime experiences.

"...open to digesting this as clinical narratives are presented and curated carefully by the author's lifetime research and exposure to the subject at..." Read more

"...Dr. Epstein's oldest book still in print, I very much liked the concise and easy to understand introduction to visualisation...." Read more

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"This book is very clear and concise that can be easily followed by anyone new to visualization..... I really believe Epstein's visualization guides..." Read more

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  • Elizabeth Grainger
    5.0 out of 5 stars Helped when I was told nothing could
    Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2013
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    In 2001, my trigeminal nerve was crushed during a routine oral surgery. I was 27 years old and completely unprepared for the radical change that occurred as a result. I went into surgery one person and came out another, and the transition was difficult, to say the least. Part of the problem was facial paralysis in the affected quadrant, which I was able to (mostly)correct with intensive physical therapy over a number of years, but a lingering and complex complication was intense, constant nerve pain.

    Nothing could solve it. Nothing and no one could help me. I was told that only a coma could actually resolve the pain, but then I'd be back in pain when I woke up. (Darn!) I went from being a healthy and active young woman to a zombie zonked out on narcotics, just so I could somehow make it through the day without going out of my mind in pain. I saw countless specialists, and at least none of them did me the discourtesy of telling me that I just had to follow one protocol and the pain would go away. But that presented another problem: hopelessness.

    A few years into this journey, I met a nurse practitioner at a pain management center. In addition to helping me with the routine medication regimen, he asked me if I was interested in learning some healing visualizations and guided imageries. Sure, why not? I took the photocopied paragraphs with a promise to follow them exactly as indicated for a month. I was too seasoned a pain patient to expect much, but I did as he asked.

    Anyone who's read Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery knows how this story will go; slowly but surely, I did start to feel better. I continued the visualizations past our next monthly appointment, because they were the one thing in my life that actually truly helped. It didn't happen overnight, but the visualization did what nothing else could. It gave me hope and a feeling of power. The wonderful nurse practitioner moved on (God bless him -- I owe him so much!) but I kept with it. Over the years, I continued to see other doctors, but I steadily decreased my drug use. I had MRIs and CT scans that showed the nerve damage itself was still there, but it was my response that was getting better. I was training myself to heal. I decided to buy my own copy of the book so I could find out more.

    Now, nearly 12 years later, I only take one pain medication. I have a great quality of life. I have hope for the future and I feel healthy. I do live with pain, but I know how to do that now. Every day, I do a guided imagery and I meditate, using the skills I learned in Healing Visualizations. For me, this book was a life-saver. If you are suffering from chronic pain or another chronic disease, please read this book and give it a chance. You have nothing at all to lose and a world of healing to gain.
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  • Colunga family
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for anyone stuck in the never-ending ruts of life.
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2024
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    Epstein provides a whole new outlook throughout the pages of this book. A sense of purpose even for the most skeptical humans. In reality, as a human race we've always known the tactics rattled in these pages were true. We just needed an outline to see what we all have already been doing. He's provided us with a guide to the understanding we just needed to rightfully own. Brilliant in all aspects.
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  • Emilio Cabrera
    5.0 out of 5 stars Clinical evidence of a different way to look at our inner self
    Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023
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    Fascinating topic if the reader is open to digesting this as clinical narratives are presented and curated carefully by the author's lifetime research and exposure to the subject at hand.

    As someone from a traditional Western Higher educational background who analysis and processes information via the Scientific method lexicon, this is a rich and inviting narrative that goes beyond traditional medical and scientific recommendations- or at least what we classify within those terms. It explores an aberrant from traditional thought, yet attainable subject of imagination and visualization and the potential benefits found within.

    I give it 5 stars as I have been able to be open to the exercises and practices that provide within the vast and unexplored inner self (our neurofeedback and psychological realms of the self). The author expands on his educational upbringing via a Freudian psychoanalytic approach- yet is able to present his personal journey and openness as he becomes cognizant of the possibilities that exist within the world of Imagination.
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  • K
    4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting and useful if you like visualizations for healing
    Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2024
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    Enjoyed the book and using the visualizations. In a few cases, I wished there was more information for a healing practice (e.g., the rest of the flow pattern after the canal of Schlemm in the eyes).
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  • Andrea Crisp
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I needed!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2011
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    This book delivered! It was exactly what I was looking for. The author lays a good foundation around visualizations, giving you some things to think about and a "how to" section for creating your own, plus he gives a lot of samples of healing visualizations as well. Based on all of this I created my own visualization which I will be doing daily for the month of August.

    Also, a good thing to note, I am not a visual person. When I took a test in school around this I tested highest for auditory, then kinesthetic and visual was last. He has a small section where he discusses this and how to increase your visual skills. He has you use your stronger skill set to tap into the visual. This has been helpful for me. My hope is that by the time 30 days has passed I will have results and I will have increased my visual capacity as well!

    1/9/19 Update - I used my new found visualization skills to create a healing visualization after a medical procedure. CCSVI. This is son that often has to be redone or people end up needing stents for permanent results. All of these years later I am still doing well. I attribute this in part the visualization that I created after reading this book and learning about my condition. I did it at least 2x daily for over 30 days. An impi aspect to my healing. I highly recommend this book to help you build your own healing visualizations.
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  • Helena K.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2011
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    I recently bought three books of this author and loved them all, to say the least. In Healing Visualizations, Dr. Epstein's oldest book still in print, I very much liked the concise and easy to understand introduction to visualisation. His explanation of the relationship between emotions, images and sensations was a true revelation to me: "An image is the mental form of a feeling. But there is also a physical form - sensation." You can't put it plainer and this realisation alone to me is worth the purchase. Also, the advice at the end of the book on how to develop my own imagery proved very valuable.
    I found the image exercises clearly worded, easy to perform and convincing. Of course, I tried out only a few. So far I have experienced no physical healing but things look much "brighter and clearer". And thanks, Dr Epstein, for all the encouragement along the way!
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  • Colleen Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love it
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2023
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    Really helpful and useful
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  • Monika Gaischin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Schnelle Lieferung
    Reviewed in Germany on July 22, 2021
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    Entsprach den Erwartungen 😀
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  • Cassio
    4.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!
    Reviewed in Brazil on February 20, 2020
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    Very good approach though using a bit boring speech. But still a very good reading!
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  • Allyne C Dubreuil
    5.0 out of 5 stars It was an eye opener. The tools we need ...
    Reviewed in Canada on September 24, 2017
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    It was an eye opener. The tools we need to improve our life/health start in our mind, but it is the last place we usually check.
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  • Maya
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good
    Reviewed in India on July 28, 2018
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    This book is good.Exercises and explanation was spot on.I felt good and use the exercises on a daily.
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