Customer Reviews

Relaxation Body Scan & Guided Imagery for Well-Being

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"Relaxation Body Scan & Guided Imagery for Well-Being" is the best tool I know for learning the skills of relaxation and body awareness. Carolyn's insructions are clear and easy to follow. Her calm voice is wonderfully soothing. Her experiance as a Physical Therapist and Psychotherapist clearly makes a difference in her ability to create a guided relaxation technique that really works. I highly recommend this CD to anyone wanting to relax.

I'm constantly looking for a good progressive muscle relaxation cd because when I make them for myself, I just laugh at myself while listening to it. :) This CD is great because Carolyn's voice is soothing but somewhat plain/neutral, so she doesn't come across as overly cheesey. I've also had some experience with subliminal relaxation tapes, and I found progressive muscle relaxation to be more effective. As a psychotherapist, I use this myself and recommend it freely to clients. Great purchase!

I am a stay at home mother with a very high needs baby. I suffer from chronic daily headaches and was looking for a CD that would help me relax.
I've tried meditating but my mind always wanders. This cd was excellent in helping to keep my focus on my breathing. After a session I feel absolutely renewed!

My neurologist suggested that I use breathing and meditation to lower blood pressure. I have taken my BP at home three times a day for several weeks now (using an Omron wrist cuff purchased from Amazon!). The difference since starting the "breathing" is noticable. I am also using this in preparation for spinal surgery in August. I believe that this will contribute to a quicker and better recovery.

I purchased this CD because I was looking for a Progressive Muscle Relaxation CD. Another reviewer stated that this was exactly that. I just received the CD today and tried it out. You can imagine my dissapointment when I realized it was not progressive muscle relaxation. (where you tighten then relax each muscle). I tried it out to see if I enjoyed it in it's own right. It was ok but not as useful as the PMR CDs -after much practice with PMR, you can train your self to relax just by making a fist!

Anyway I hope this helps any of you looking for PMR. Don't buy this one.

I liked the content of the CD and find Carolyn's voice to be very soothing. The middle of the tape, as she goes through each body part is very good and relaxing; but I found the beginning and end to be too fast - I wanted her to slow down her speech which is more conversational than meditative. OK, not great.

This tape is very relaxing and help me to go sleep. It also lowers my blood pressure :-).

This is everything I wanted in a non-drug relaxation. I suffer from chronic and debilitating back pain and Ms. McManus' calming voice helps me to take my mind off of its constant reminder. My best friend is now hooked and listens to this CD even when she is awakened at 2:00 in the morning 'snow balling', as we all tend to do from time-to-time. The music is definitely soothing and seems to help take me away from it all!

I was very disappointed after reviewing this CD. I was hoping it would relax me so I could fall asleep. Instead, after listening for an hour, I got up and ate and stayed awake for 3 hours. I found the harp in the background to be quite annoying. I was really expecting to hear some nature sounds in the background, i.e. ocean, etc. Sorry that I am not writing anything positive.

We really like this cd. we listing to at each day. After we got home for a all day.It calm down and then we can not have so much stress.