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Letter to Health Professionals
Dear Healthcare Professional,
Welcome! I salute you for your work and the sacrifices you have made to practice your healing art and science.
I am, as I suspect you are, very aware of the double-edged sword of the "Information Revolution." On one hand, science has revealed so much about the mind and body, from the biochemical to the sociobiological, and shown how important our habits, our relationships and our spiritual health are to creating and preserving health. On the other hand, for most people, their primary access to information is through the Internet. Studies indicate that, unfortunately, the majority of the information on the web is incorrect, misleading, and "spun" to serve the financial and political ends of special interests.
Incredible advancements have been made in psychopharmacology. Many people can now function who, previously, would have been unable to do so. Many, who otherwise would have been lost, have lived to make vital contributions (e.g., Stephen Hawking). Yet, at the same time, the "Emergency Mentality" of our society, wedded to the lack of responsibility and inadequate self-care training most people have, has led to massive over-prescribing on the part of the medical profession, and unrealistic expectations on the part of patients. The results have been disastrous.
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With all the information being beamed to health professionals, it is a major problem for most of us to make wise decisions about where we spend our precious attention. As the world continues to speed up around us, we have precious little of that attention left, and must be very skeptical to separate the wheat from the chaff.
In the past 35 years I have seen medicine fragmented into "mainstream" vs. "alternative and complementary" branches. Instead of condensing into a holistic unity, as we had hoped, things have become even more confusing for our patients and ourselves. I must admit that sometimes I still long for the world as it was, where people had faith in the medical establishment as a trusted source of information, based on good double-blind studies, and the clinical experience of trained experts.
The Science and Practice of Mind-Body Medicine
Since the 1960s, I have been teaching health professionals how to influence the relationship between mind and body, how emotions govern their interaction, how many illnesses can be ameliorated by modifying how we think, feel, relate, and deal with stress. In my practice and my research the goal has been to develop ways of helping people learn that their thoughts, emotions, and beliefs are behaviors, and that by changing these they can directly affect both their microscopic (cellular) behavior and macroscopic (habits & lifestyle) wellness.
I hope you will enjoy browsing my website, and I welcome any and all comments, suggestions and additional data. I always consider myself and my practice a "work in progress."
Sincerely,
Locating a Product
If you would like to focus on your own healing and peak performance, or to gain some perspectives, skills or tools to share with those you serve, this website offers several options. To see what Dr. Miller recommends for any specific conditions or issues, try the Symptom Search. If you would like a personal or professional consultation, or if you wish to refer a patient or client, a phone or office appointment may be scheduled. We are certain you will find that at least some of the products listed in the Catalog will be useful to your patients/clients. You can simply guide them that to visit DrMiller.com, suggesting a particular product, if you wish, or email us and we will send you some cards that have the URL information on them. You may also request a number of catalogs for your office or waiting room.
Products for Resale or Distribution
Many professionals choose to buy quantities of tapes or other products to make available to their patients through their practice. These are offered to you at a significant discount, and may be given away, or sold through your office. Simply call the office, or email us. Samples are available to qualified professionals.
Products for Professional Training
The following products have proven valuable in helping health professionals apply the techniques of mind-body medicine in clinical situations.
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Personal Excellence
The Heart of Hypnosis and Deep Healing Level One – A Professional Training
This professional training set features 3 DVDs with 12 full hours of training plus a manual on CD. An introduction to the fundamental principles of deep healing and their application to mind-body approaches such as deep relaxation, guided imagery, hypnosis, meditation, affirmation, autosuggestion, and peak performance programming. For those with little or no training in these techniques, this is an excellent place to start.
The set retails for $450, but is available during a limited introductory period for $150. Includes a complete manual of the course.
Order from the office, at 530-478-1807.
Healing the Universe (DVD)
Dr. Miller’s presentation given at the 2004 Annual Conference of The Academy of Guided Imagery is now available on:
DVD (with Enhanced Graphics)...$19.95
Audio Only CD...$16.95
Order from the office, at 530-478-1807.
Professional Consultation
Enlist the expertise of a highly skilled therapist and mind-body specialist for consultation on your more difficult cases…without even leaving your office. Dr. Miller is available for phone or office consultation to help you gain an additional perspective on a case you are treating in your practice. This may include assistance with mind-body diagnosis, analyzing life patterns supportive of disease and dysfunction, developing transformational strategies, inductions, imagery scripts, and so forth.
This service is available on an ongoing or drop-in basis. Open to physicians, psychotherapists, counselors and other health care professionals. An audiocassette is usually made of your consulting session, and either the entire session, or just the nuggets and pearls, will be sent to you following your session, and you should have it within the week.
Professional Supervision
Dr. Miller is also available for one-to-one coaching and supervision for health professionals, students, interns and residents, or those in practice who wish additional training in mind-body diagnosis and treatment. Such coaching/supervision may include issues as:
- learning how to develop a mind-body approach suitable to your practice
- support or supervision in treating a specific patient or client,
- developing a medical, psychotherapeutic, hypnotic or guided imagery intervention,
- consultation regarding a difficult client or diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma.
Professional Trainings and Seminars
Dr. Miller also offers professional trainings from time to time, most with CE credits. Those currently open to the public can be found on the Upcoming Events Calendar. Or, he is available to give one of his presentations, or to design one for the needs of your staff—simply email us, or call.
Following is a list of the trainings Dr. Miller offers. If you are interested in a training or workshop that is not currently scheduled, email us and we will contact you when one is scheduled.
Healing the Universe
Dr. Miller's presentation given at the 2004 Annual Conference of The Academy of Guided Imagery is now available on:
DVD (with Enhanced Graphics)...$19.95
Audio Only CD...$16.95
Order from the office, at 530-478-1807.
The Heart of Hypnosis and Deep Healing
In addition to the lectures, seminars and trainings he presents for universities, institutes, and professional organizations, Dr. Miller sponsors a series of trainings in the principles and the practice of Deep Healing.
There are three levels of the training:
The Heart of Hypnosis and Deep Healing:
Level I - A Professional Training, on DVD
This beautifully produced set of three DVDs is as relaxing and entertaining to watch, as it is intellectually illuminating. It was recorded at a live workshop and is enhanced with music and stunning visuals. You will learn an extraordinary set of clinical skills and a unique theoretical perspective that seamlessly weaves mental, physical, and emotional factors with a non-denominational spirituality to yield a therapeutic modality of unparalleled power and efficacy.
The set retails for $400, but is available during a limited introductory period for $150. Includes a complete manual of the course. Order from the office, at 530-478-1807.
The Heart of Healing and Hypnosis, Level 2
Although level 1 is highly recommended as a prerequisite, applications for admission will be accepted from those who are well experienced in relaxation and guided imagery techniques. Because Dr. Miller’s approaches are quite unique in their emphasis, listening to a recording of level 1 is highly recommended as preparation for level 2 for those who have not taken Level I.
In this session, we will work with your experiences in the use of the tools gained in level 1, with an emphasis on refining technique, achieving deeper trance states, the use of indirect suggestion techniques, applications to psychotherapy, EMDR, age regression analysis and spiritual alignment.
The Heart of Healing and Hypnosis—Level 3
In level 3 training, Dr. Miller offers further refinement and professional development, personal application of deep healing, and a focus on empowering each patient/client’s unique spiritual/religious/psychological paradigm. Also included is instruction as to how to catalyze transformation of one’s life in accordance with these principles, further work in age regression analysis, dissociative disorders, and applications to healing at higher levels, including primary relationship, family and community.
Diploma personally signed by Dr. Miller will be granted to those who successfully complete this course.
Healing the Healer Workshop/Retreat
Come healer, and be healed. Go out of your mind . . . and come to your senses. Deep relaxation, gentle music and movement to nurture and invigorate the soul. Dedicate this time especially to yourself. Stop giving and discover how to receive, to be renewed, and to be nurtured at that deep place within that inspires and informs your sacred work. Rediscover the source, your essence, and let it be richly nurtured.
Healing is to make whole, to clear the way for the deeper self to integrate and attune all levels of the system, to nurture that self and invite it to come forth and do this. The outcome is wholeness, esteem, joyful self-expression, creativity, and rich rewarding relationships with others and with the world.
Healers need healing too. Come; take this time just for yourself. Come, receive, fill your cup. Whether you are a physician, nurse, schoolteacher, healthcare worker, minister, parent or caring executive this is an important part of your work, and in doing it there is a great toll taken. In our giving to others we forget to give to ourselves, our reserves reach a low level and our ability to give is impaired.
- Enter through the door of serenity through deep relaxation, imagery, and music.
- Touch and nurture that essence that is our inspiration and source and potential.
- Reawaken the enthusiasm, the delight and promise of our path, or our mission.
- Examine those behaviors and perspectives, which serve as self-defeating patterns and the difference between care taking and care giving.
- Develop a new, healthier vision to carry forth and to inspire our work.
An unforgettable experience that will serve as a moment to renew, revitalize, to honor the source of healing and become whole again for yourself and for those you serve.
Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind/body Medicine
Deep Healing is a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual transformation toward a personal vision of wholeness, joy and love. This can occur only on a base of congruence, integrity and rich, passionate, fulfilling experiences in the world. The information age has brought the tools and techniques we need here to our doorstep; it is now our turn to kindle a Spirit worth guiding their use. Dr. Miller will share the experience and awe of his 25 years of clinical and personal practice and learning. Come and explore, experientially, the principles of personal transformation and Deep Healing.
Guided Imagery and Relaxation Techniques for Health Practitioners—Beginning and Advanced
This presentation will help participants gain skill in several techniques of inducing the relaxed state along with an understanding of the rationale for choosing one as opposed to the other. (To choose and utilize) Rationale for the use of imagery along with specific training in how to construct powerful imagery, how to encourage spontaneous imagery, how to work with the images produced by the patient/client, use of imagery to deal with specific mental, emotional, physical and spiritual imbalances.
Clinical Hypnotherapy—Beginning and Advanced
An introduction to the concept and history of hypnosis, basic induction techniques, producing, maintaining, deepening and terminating trance states, the use of auditory suggestions and imagery, self-hypnosis, use of hypnotic techniques for specific physical and psychological problems, hypnosis and spirituality.
Augmenting EMDR With Hypnosis
Dr. Miller will present his experience in the use of the tools of hypnosis–deep relaxation, guided imagery, direct and indirect suggestions, and Selective Awareness to enhance– EMDR and accomplish several important goals, including helping the client chose a target, providing tools for rehearsing new behaviors, terminating incomplete sessions and increasing rapport to name a few. Prerequisite: some experience in hypnosis and/or deep relaxation/guided imagery procedures. We will review the fundamental principles, and explore their application experientially and practically.
Presence and Love, The Heart and Soul of Deep Healing
Behavioral medicine has demonstrated clinically, and through controlled experiment the fundamental principles that underlie health (physical, emotional, mental, behavioral and relational). Interestingly, they are isomorphic with the basic precepts of the major spiritual paths/teachers.
Such values as respect, acceptance, honesty, integrity, love, equality and loyalty receive universal lip service, yet in our world they are honored more in the breach than in the performance. The culture-wide and profession-wide practice of denial and doublethink we spiritually abuse ourselves as well as those we serve.
In this training a variety of techniques will be presented and experienced, including the use of imagery facilitated by words, music, and movement to induce and utilize the healing state. Our goal, however, will be to transcend technique to achieve the actual inner experience of healing. You will learn tools for keeping this inner experience alive, and sharing it with those you serve.
Imagery, Recovery and Co-Dependence
The use of deep relaxation and imagery techniques provides a powerful alternative to the person who has become dependent on outside substances, outside people, or upon the approval of others. In this presentation we explore the nature and origin of co-dependence, the nature of origin of addictions, and various techniques are presented which are designed both to heal the inner wounds as well as to change external behavior in relationship to people and things. The use of deep relaxation and imagery for accessing the higher power is explored.
Practicum trainings (1-3 days)
Opportunities to further refine and enhance your techniques and therapeutic skill; an opportunity to be directly observed and critiqued by Dr. Miller and your colleagues.
Telephone Consultation to health professionals
Assistance with mind-body diagnosis, analyzing life patterns supportive of disease and dysfunction, developing transformational strategies, inductions, imagery scripts, etc.
Available on an ongoing or drop-in basis. Open to physicians, psychotherapists, counselors and other health care professionals. Audiocassette made of the interaction for later study.
Enlist the expertise of a master therapist for consultation on your more difficult cases…without even leaving your office. Available only to appropriately trained, or licensed, health care practitioners.
Phone consultation appointments are generally available within a week, or immediately for more urgent situations. An audiocassette is made of your consulting session, and either the entire session or just the nuggets and pearls, and will be sent to you following your session, and you should have it within the week.
Dr. Miller offers professional training and supervision in the following subjects.
Hypnotherapy
Deep Healing
Psychotherapy
Deep Relaxation
Guided Imagery
Mind/Body Medicine
PTSD
EMDR
Age regression analysis
Psychosomatic illness
Stress Management
Family Therapy
Attention deficit disorder
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