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Health Journeys: A Meditation to Promote Successful Surgery

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I listened to this tape daily for four weeks before my surgery. I only used the Affirmations part, as the Guided Imagery exercise didn't seem as focused. When I went into the operating room, I had no anxiety or fear. I did listen to the music portion on headphones during my surgery-- no problem with this on either the surgeon's or anesthesiologist's part. My surgery went exactly like the script in the tape! I awoke with my "stomach calm and settled" and my surgery went with "no complications, minimal bleeding, and very little discomfort". Everyone was amazed at how well I did. What a difference from a previous surgery 10 years ago that I did WITHOUT using the tape. I highly recommend this to anyone anticipating surgery.

This author's work has been in use by Blue Shield of California (and others) with excellent success. Patients are told to take the CD home up to two weeks before their surgery, listening to Side One as often as possible. Then they are to listen to Side Two during and after surgery. I highly recommend that all listening be done with headphones, especially during surgery. If you, the patient, get any flack from the hospital Staff, simply remind them that the research shows a faster, easier surgery procedure with fewer complications, faster and more comfortable recovery and quicker return to normal, daily regimen, therefore it is in your best interest to have the CD playing while in surgery and during recovery. To deny you these benefits, they will be inflicting harm which is against their Code of Ethics. If they argue about infection control, remind them as to how they protect you against infection when using the blood pressure cuff. You can remove the foam covers and wipe the entire ear piece with an alcohol wipe. If they argue about safety, your CD player is battery operated and they almost certainly are not using flammable anesthesia. You should also know that there was an average savings of over $2000 per patient, as reported by Blue Shield. As a Certified Hypnotist with a Masters from MIHH, I can atest to the efficacy of this product and would suggest that all surgery patients use this item.

I was very anxious before my big surgery, and this tape was passed along to me by a friend. She highly recommended it, and it was just the trick for me. It calms pre-surgery nerves and helped me to fall asleep each night for the two weeks before surgery. I highly recommend it to anyone. PS: I did not ask my surgeon to play side 2 in the operating room, as I didn't feel that was necessary. I used all of side 1 each night, and the affirmations on side 2. I figured that my surgeon would much rather listen to his own selection of music than this CD!

I bought this CD for my partner based on a recommendation from the Integrative Medicine clinic at UCSF. We both attended a pre-surgery seminar to find methods for helping to create a successful surgery.

The two-hour surgery turned into one-hour! Everything went well and my partner is recovering quickly. She was able to go home the very next day. Amazing.

I would highly recommend this CD. Use it in good health!

I have been listening to this CD for weeks prior to hip surgery....her voice is wonderful and I have tremendously reduced my pre op fears and anxieties. Am taking the CD's to hospital to listen before and during surgery. I recommend highly! Go to her website and take a sample listen of her voice!

This doesn't really work for me. The imagery on CD1 uses angels & guardians. That's Christian-ish & jarring enough for this long-practicing Zen Buddhist to jolt me out of the state of mind that might help. CD 2, which is for listening during the surgery, is newagey elevator music (my opinion only, of course) of a sort that makes my teeth itch. Again, not the desired state of mind.

Naparstek has obviously put a lot of care into this. I'm sure it helps many people. I'm just not one of them.

However, I do like "Preparing for Surgery" by Martin L. Rossman, MD (ASIN B000QZU4ZK). Its imagery is more neutral & "nondenominational." I've been listening to it at bedtime since I got it this week. Already, I can feel myself growing calmer about the scary major surgery coming up. I will make my own iTunes playlist for during the surgery. I have some soothing music that does not make my teeth itch.

Loved it! Guided meditations and positive suggestions help relax you and assist you in being an active part of the medical process. We are all complex energy sources. Positive mental focus and acknowledge and overcome aniexties pre and post surgery. It works!

I was in need of major back surgery and was very scared. I searched the internet, and came across Belleruth Naparstek's web site and was very impressed by her. I went to Amazon, and was happy to see they had the CD. It is a wonderful guided imagery CD. The first time I listened to it, I was moved. I listened to it regularly for the two weeks prior to surgery, and took it to the hospital with me to listen to the second half of it, which is imagery for successful healing. It really calmed me down, and focused me for my surgery. What was interesting is that my surgeon told me everything went perfect, and could not have gone any better. (There is a part in the CD that focuses on just that, making your body respond to the surgeon, and making it help the surgery go as well as it can!) Just a coincidence, you decide.... I know what my answer to that is! Anyway, this is not a CD you will use all the time, but for me, it was well worth the money spent to make my surgery a success.

I was terrified to undergo the major surgery I needed. As a result I was living with a worsening condition because I kept putting off my surgery. (I put it off for TWO YEARS). I tried every type of alternative treatment I could find, but my condition was just getting worse.

My Dr. suggested I try some guided imagery to help myself to be mentally prepared. I heard some insurance companies give out guided imagery "kits" because trials have shown that people who use it have less surgical complications and heal faster. I found that Blue Shield uses this author, so I ordered this CD. It arrived only a few days before my surgery (at which point I was having to take sedatives because I was so stressed about going 'under the knife'). I listened to it several times a day, every day. It REALLY did help.., I was much calmer each time I listened to it, and I was finally able to walk into the hospital and get the surgery done.

My doctor let me have my cd player during the surgery too. And afterwards, I listened to it in the hospital a lot, and it helped ease my discomfort.

*Hint: It was suggested that as part of my mental 'preparation' I get a massage while listening to the music section of the CD to 'train' my brain/body connection that this music = relaxation. I wish I had ordered it earlier so I could do this several times. I was only able to do it once.., but it did help.

I bought this CD two months ahead of my surgery. I listen to it every night when I go to sleep, and I try to catch mornings and mid-day too. I have noticed a huge difference in my anxiety level. I use the affirmation part msotly. I am not always very good at guided imagery. The music is nice, and the voice is quite pleasant. My surgery is in one month, and I am feeling very good about it. I just had an MRI, and I repeated some of the phrases to myself. I couldn't use my CD during the procedure, but the parts about "my body is comfortable and safe" really helped!