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Heal Yourself with Medical Hypnosis: The Most Immediate Way to Use Your Mind-Body Connection

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This is a great CD. I listen to it every night. I have owned it since February 2006. I recorded it to my Ipod and fall asleep to it. It's the only way I can calm my mind after a hard day and get to sleep. When I wake in the middle of the night, I play it again and fall right to sleep. The segment called Progressive Body Relaxation is the best. It takes you step by step, in a progressive way to relax. I can get up when I want to and stop the process. When I travel, I take it with me. Normally I can't sleep on planes but this takes me to a relaxed state and at times I get some nice rest. Dr. Gurgevich has a voice that is relaxing and calming. Each segment gets right to it and starts the session. After the introduction in the beginning of the CD you don't hear alot of talk again about the benefits of hypnotism. I like that part because when I am ready to relax, I don't want wasted minutes with someone trying to sell me on how great hynotism is or what it can do everytime I listen to a segment.

I was skeptical of the whole hypnosis scene. I tried it a few times at nightclubs and there was no way I could be hypnotized. Last year I was treated for breast cancer, and although everything appears to be fine,I am still dealing with the anxiety of the whole ordeal. I have followed Dr. Weil's advise for years and find him to be solid in his recommendations regarding alternative medicine. I am in the medical profession myself, so I have done some research in this area. I wouldn't have even given this cd a second glance, but because of Dr. Weil's endorsement, I gave it a whirl. Well, one month later, I am thrilled with the progress I have made. I can easily slip into the "trance" state without any real effort and let my subconscious do all the work. The side effects that I have been experiencing from the aromatase inhibitor drugs have all but vanished. It almost seems like cheating! Hypnosis seems like its on the fringe of medicine, but the proof is in the pudding. It certainly cant harm you and is well worth a try.

Leave it to Dr. Weil as a trusted source to open your mind and provide a great introduction to the concept of medical hypnosis. I was in a lot of pain last year and willing to try just about anything, so being a long-time fan of Dr. Weil's work on other aspects of healthy eating and living, I figured, why not give it a try? Boy am I ever glad I did, because from the reassuring and valid points that Dr. Weil's friend and colleague Dr. Steven Gurgevich made, it got me to actually try the sessions included in the audio. I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed them, and since then, searched out more of Dr. Gurgevich's work and now have 5 of his own audios which have helped me improve to 90% better in the last few months I have been using them. Check out my favorites Healing Mind: Healing Body, Pain Relief, and Stress Ease.

--Melanie R. Jordan, author of Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too! Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!

The lecture by Dr. Weil is excellent information on the dynamics and scientific work being done with medical hypnosis. The sessions with Dr. Gurgevich on Disc 2 were a review for me having already been trained as a hypnotherapist. Therefore, this is a CD I would only listen to once and/or refer to if trying to start someone else out with hypnosis. However, I did go to Dr. Gurgevich's website and order 4 of his CD's specific to some medical issues and impending surgery I am dealing with. Therefore, I do belive their information is accurate and effective.

I take Zoloft for anxiety and depression. None the less, I still was having trouble trying to relax.

I'm seventy years old, but probably because I eat un-American, and I do exercise regularly, I'm still quite healthy. Still, I couldn't get my monkey brain to shut up and I couldn't make my stiff muscles in my neck and back relax. This is, at times, quite painful. I exhausted myself every day. And I knew that this stress would someday catch up with me.

Professor Gurgevich's relaxation exercises, as conveyed on this CD set, has been of enormous help. No wonder that Dr. Weil endorses his presentation.

I also appreciate the concept presented: "YOUR MIND-BODY CONNECTION." This insight increases motivation and seems to me to be founded on solid ground.

I do not recommend that anyone stop taking antidepressant medication prescribed by their physician, but I do recommend this CD set to anyone needing help relaxing. These exercises work and have no undesirable side effects.

Really Steven Gurgevich is why I purchased this audio CD - I had already lost 45 lbs. with a few other self-hypnosis tapes, but I had heard of him and wanted to check out a slightly more "clinical" methodology. I was vaguely familiar with Dr. Weil as the holistic practitioner on various TV programs, but all he really does is support the concept of medical hypnosis to relieve "real" medical problems. Still, the first CD was nice, it puts hypnosis in a positive light. Considering all the nonsense out there about hypnosis, the last thing I wanted was to purchase some kind of mysterious CD!

Gurgevich shows techniques on the 2nd tape on how to use hypnosis - well, actually, as he says, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, so all you have to do is listen to the CD. I want to mention that I don't have any sickness or disease, but that was not my purpose of using the CD - I simply wanted to hear a different way of using hypnosis. And it worked..just like the other hypnosis CD's I had which also had nothing to do with losing weight, I continued to lose more weight on this CD! Now I have purchased many of Gurgevich's CD's including his "Self-Hypnosis Diet" and I learn new ways to go into trance state with each. If you're interested in working with your unconscious mind in order to attain specific goals, then hypnosis can be effective and Gurgevich is excellent at delivering the message!

I really found all of the inductions that Gurgevich uses to be very effective.

I bought this to see if it would help with my sleep and perhaps help with an auto-immune disease. Steven has a very soothing voice. It did help me sleep. But then he would bring you out of the hypnosis which would wake me up--It is very helpful to prepare you for sleep but I don't think it is so great to fall asleep to. He demystifies what hypnosis is and why it can help with a variety of conditions not just diet or smoking. I have not explored this to the end result of seeking a professional medical hypnotist as the CD suggests ( use this for a month to teach yourself how to meditate on cue and then go to a professional to help you with a specific goal). But I can say it is very informative, and helpful to soothe. It is a good introduction to medical hypnosis and surely worth the money if you use it for a month to train yourself before you see a professional. For my purposes the Andrew Weil Breathing CD was most helpful for me as it combines breathing and meditation exercises that can be used for sleep and left on as you drift off.

This is an excellent cd. What you get out of it is what you put into it. Understand the context and use the tracks. Relax your body and mind and focus. If you can do that, very good things will happen, if you let it.

I'm trained in hypnosis myself. I think these guys are great. I enjoyed listening to the CD - more than once! I bought 2 of theirs...