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Achieve Peak Performance, Peak performance, sports, athletics

The secret to delivering your best performance, at work, in sports, on the stage, or wherever, is developing clear mental focus, releasing unnecessary inhibiting tension, and clearly visualizing and motivating mind and body to your desired end. Peak performance is a 6-CD program, complete with a workbook training program in doing your best. Ten-Minute Stress Manager contained a high-speed self-programming experience, and Optimal Performance is a more complete single tape program for applying the techniques of mental image rehearsal. Peak Performance is being a good leader, and Awakening the Leader Within shows you how to do this. Peak Performance at a global level is addressed in Healing Our Planet.

Addiction and Recovery (chemical dependency, alcoholism, drug use, abuse), Rehabilitation, Serenity

Addiction and dependence are the result of habitually turning to an external substance or activity for relief of internal tension and stress, while failing to address the actual cause (denial). Letting Go of Stress or Ten Minute Stress Manager provide a much better way to relax, and Serenity Prayer teaches the fundamental/emotional skill required for recovery. Repair the damaged self-esteem that results from dependency with Inner Child Healing and I Am: Awakening Self-Acceptance. The Serenity video is also an effective way to relax, and Writing Your Own Script can help you develop a new lifestyle. The book, Deep Healing, or Deep Healing book on tape describes the mechanism underlying addiction, dependence and recovery. Finding Serenity is helpful in the recovery of co-dependents as well as those with an addiction or dependence. Abolish Anxiety offers excellent techniques for self-relaxation and Escape from Depression can help you change your thinking by bringing you into the present, and guiding you through the stages of healing from depression.

AIDS, HIV infection

HIV infection and AIDS are chronic, long-term illnesses, usually marked by a number of healing experiences and relapses. Begin by committing yourself over the long haul to maximize the healing responses, minimize stress, and to create the highest possible quality of life. Healing Journey will help you develop a clear vision of what you want to create. Immunoimagery will help you understand and adjust your mind and emotions to the best support and empower your immune system. Accepting Change and Moving On helps deal with the losses and challenges always present in chronic disease, and Awakening the Healer Within will help you understand the way the mind, body and emotions interplay so as to support or injure each other during the healing process. Energy conservation and wise choices are crucial, and Serenity Prayer can be of great assistance in this. Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape will provide you with a deep understanding as well as effective tools for enabling your mind to support your physical healing. Robert Haig Coxon’s CD, The Silent Path, contains music that is excellent for supporting relaxation and the healing process.

Alcoholism, excessive drinking, alcohol dependence

The chemical dependency and the emotional dependency in alcoholism are often extreme, and professional help, AA, or other specific social/emotional support systems should be used. Your recovery depends on your ability to make wise choices—as is explored on Serenity Prayer. The video, Serenity, as well as Healing Journey and Ten-Minute Stress Manager, which is good for a quick pick-me-up, support relaxation and stress reduction. Writing Your Own Script will give you tools for changing your behavior in whatever situation you find yourself. The Recovery Kit provides an excellent set of tools for you to use. Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape help you understand how dependencies develop, as well as providing tools for overcoming them. Co-dependent relationships are often at the seat of alcohol abuse problems, and Finding Serenity will give you some tools for transforming those relationships. Escape from Depression and Abolish Anxiety teach you the tools and techniques to gain a new perspective on anxiety and depression and rescript your deeper mind and nervous system.

Allergies

An allergy is a kind of over-reactivity of the immune system. Immunoimagery will help you understand and interact with your immune system more effectively. The gentle imagery in Healing Journey, as well as in The Self-Healing Comprehensive Program, may serve to ease the symptoms of allergies and enable you to better withstand those that remain. Often, allergies are associated with stress. Letting Go of Stress and Ten-Minute Stress Manager can be useful in such situations. Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape will help you understand the role the mind plays in allergies, and help you discover new, less allergenic ways of approaching life. Often, people with allergies have a problem with anger—expressing too much, too little or in inappropriate ways. New behaviors for dealing with stress can be best absorbed using Writing Your Own Script.

Negative attitude, frustration, anger, attitude adjustment

Harmful negative attitudes are a harmful substitute for effective action—they paralyze and destroy. Serenity Prayer will help you decide whether it is wise to accept and move on (Accepting Change and Moving On or Letting Go of Stress can help with this), or to act more decisively (Launching Your Day, Writing Your Own Script, or Optimal Performance can help once you’ve made this decision). Ten-Minute Stress Manager can be used anytime for a quick re-focusing on your goals. Still, Personal Excellence is the most effective all-around program for choosing and going after what you really want and what will bring you true, deep satisfaction. Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape discuss the origin of positive and negative attitudes, as well as showing you how to use deep relaxation, imagery and affirmations to adjust your attitude. The information in Escape from Depression may be helpful, even crucial in every form of depression. At the end add Awakening the Leader Within is a very positive way to assert yourself over your life, and Healing Our Planet is a very positive way to deal with the global challenges that lay before us.

Fear

The first step in counteracting fear, whether generalized or specific, is to learn how to relax deeply in a safe place. "Relaxation and Inspiration," "Letting Go of Stress," "Rainbow Butterfly," and "Healing Journey" are all excellent introductions to relaxation.

More specifically, however, "Freeing Yourself from Fear" is a carefully designed, three-tape series which enables you not only to learn to relax, but how to relax more and more quickly, and then goes on to show you how to systematically desensitize yourself to fear-producing situations.

When the fear is associated with deep trauma, "Inner Child Healing" can provide soothing relief. "I Can: Achieving Self-Empowerment" can empower you to do things that have been frightening in the past.

When your fears are related to sexuality, "Sexual Intimacy" provides a number of healing and empowering experiences.

If you have a clear image of what you would like to do to eliminate fear from your life, "Writing Your Own Script" provides four experiences for changing behavior patterns for the better.

Unwanted anxieties and fears represent a kind of malfunction of the mind and nervous system. Abolish Anxiety offers a new perspective on anxiety and presents a graduated series of guided imagery experiences to enable you to put the new concepts into action. Dr. Miller’s book, "Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine," and "Deep Healing, the book on tape," provide thorough understanding of how this happens and how you can bring healing to this system.

Anxieties, fear, phobia, obsessiveness, worrying, OCD

Abolish Anxiety Now! is a complete self-healing program, presenting a fascinating new way to understand and treat all forms of anxiety, worry and panic.

Fear, anxiety, as well as the inner tension and stress that accompany them, are internal behaviors. Although you may have been trained to react fearfully in general or in specific situations, you can train your nervous system with deeply relaxing experiences such as I Am: Awakening Self-Acceptance, or Inner Child Healing. You can train your nervous system to substitute the relaxation response instead of the fear/tension response. When fears are related to specific things or events (e.g., snakes, bridges, public speaking), Freeing Yourself from Fear offers an effective way to de-condition unwanted responses and program in more adaptive ones. I Can: Achieving Self-Empowerment will help you regain the self-confidence you need to change for the better. When fear is about intimate or sexual contact, Sexual Intimacy is a valuable resource. To understand the mechanism by which we learn (and unlearn!) maladaptive patterns of fear and anxiety, read Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine, or listen to Deep Healing book on tape.

Arthritis, joint pain

There are two forces at work within your joints and within your body—one force that tends to inflame, the other which tends to soothe and diminish inflammation. Your goal is to support those soothing forces and cool the inflammatory ones. Healing Journey is effective for this purpose, as is The Self-Healing Comprehensive Program. Change the Channel on Pain will help you eliminate residual pain, and Easing into Sleep may prove effective in helping you fall asleep at night in spite of physical discomfort (insert under AIDS—A Time to Heal video contains suggestions for beautiful music to help with the relaxation process.

Asthma

Many different things can give rise to asthma—but in all cases, the final common feature is that the tiny muscles surrounding the necks of the little air sacs in the lungs tighten up. The "hand clasp" imagery on Letting Go of Stress is a technique for using your mind to help relax these tiny muscles. Healing Journey is a soothing experience of using healing imagery. Accepting Change focuses on letting go of breathing—Side One may prove useful for the person with asthma. Self-Healing Comprehensive Program offers many experiences that may be valuable in working with asthma. Immunoimagery provides vivid images of your immune system—and you can visualize your immune system being more peaceful and less allergic. Deep Healing book and Deep Healing book on tape describe the mind-body mechanisms at work in asthma and in its relief. Escape from Depression can help you "unlearn" the feeling of helplessness, or being cut-off from spirit, that can manifest in asthma.

Back pain, slipped disc

More than 20% of people will have significant back pain at some point. For those who deal with it properly, it is important to relieve stress and to alter behaviors to prevent this from becoming a chronic problem. Healing Your Back helps you relieve the pain, go to its source, and remove its cause. Also helpful for relaxation are Rainbow Butterfly and Healing Journey. Letting Go of Stress helps remove one of the primary causes of back problems. Change the Channel on Pain offers additional ways to bring comfort. Valuable information and instruction are contained in Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine and Deep Healing book on tape. If a period of rest, especially bed rest, is required, consider A Time to Heal video and Silent Path CD. The guided imagery experiences (4 in all) in Escape from Depression bring you into the here and now and empower you to create a positive future, experiencing yourself as healthy, creative, joyful.

Balance Mind and Emotion, Changing your behavior patterns, behavior modification, rescripting your life, mastering change

The comprehensive program Changing Your Behavior provides a number of tapes and CDs and Dr. Miller’s book, which will give you an understanding of how you develop unwanted habits, as well as tools for changing them. Awaken the Healer Within is a way to take charge of your life and as well as to participate in the leadership of your community.

Like any other computer, the biocomputer between your ears responds best when you speak in a language it understands. Anger, fear, frustration, criticism and the like never work. Writing Your Own Script: How to Change Your Behavior Patterns offers a four-step training program, software for your mind, effective for changing physical, emotional, mental and social behavior you want to change. Sometimes self-confidence and self-esteem may keep us locked into old behaviors. In such cases, I Am: Awakening Self-Acceptance and I Can: Achieving Self-Empowerment can help you create a stronger base to change from. An in-depth experiential understanding of how to build your life from your deepest values, following your unique vision through to move toward a compelling vision of the future is offered by the Personal Excellence course. Unwanted behaviors fall away as you get on track with your life. Bad habits are there for a reason—they reduce stress. To help eliminate the stress of change, consider: Ten-Minute Stress Manager and Stress Fitness Volume 2. The video Relaxation and Inspiration could come in handy as well. For an overview of how our thoughts, feelings, behaviors and stress are related, read Dr. Miller’s book Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine or Deep Healing book on tape.

Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depressive Illness

When the ups and downs of life send us too far in either direction, on a regular basis, this may be a bipolar or manic depressive illness. Seek the help of a mental health professional, and then use Dr. Miller’s recordings as supportive material. In the case of mild forms, the tapes and CDs may produce a profound effect all by themselves. First, it is necessary to gain control of stress with Letting Go of Stress or Ten-Minute Stress Manager, then take charge of the choices you are making in your life. Use Serenity Prayer and Writing Your Own Script to select thoughts, behaviors and feelings that keep you on balance. Patience is truly a virtue with these kinds of disorders, and The Source Meditation and Rainbow Butterfly can help you to learn this. When the down periods come, look to Escape from Depression, Healing Journey or Relaxation and Inspiration (audio or video). Accepting Change and Moving On can help you minimize how life changes disrupt your flow.

Cancer, tumors, metastatic disease

General and specific imagery such as on Healing From Cancer has been shown to support general good health, as well as to specifically improve survival as well as quality of life. Healing from cancer has special imagery for those receiving chemo or radiation – so that your mind, emotions and body work with the goal of helping your body, mind and emotions work with the treatment. Awakening the Healer Within is a recording of several talks done at the Cancer Support & Education Center, where Dr. Miller is Medical Director, which looks at aspects of mind-body healing as they relate to the specific disease of cancer. The book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape explore the concepts that underlie the healing process, and cancer. People undergoing treatment for cancer experience enormous changes in their lives; help for dealing with these can be found in Accepting Change, Abolish Anxiety and Escape from Depression. When surgery is needed, Successful Surgery and Recovery can improve nearly every aspect of the surgical experience. The video A Time to Heal has been found effective in many hospitals, convalescent centers and homes.

Fatigue, tiredness, exhaustion, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia

The most common symptom in all of medical practice, fatigue may sometimes be the symptom of a significant physical disease, but is most often due to stress, burn-out, lack of sleep, or overwork. Letting Go of Stress and Ten-Minute Stress Manager can help with the primary cause of most fatigue. Healing Journey and Accepting Change help you deal with these issues, and The Self-Healing Comprehensive Program provides a number of valuable tools. The Relaxation and Inspiration video can help you restore your energy, and the book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape, can help you design a life of balance and freedom from fatigue. Health and Wellness can help you restore balance and wellness. For rest and sleep, Easing into Sleep and The Silent Path are without equal. Fatigue may also be associated with depression. In such cases, Escape from Depression may prove very helpful.

Depression, Sadness

Depression can be mild or severe, ranging from the dysphoric feeling when your team fails to reach the Super Bowl, the weeks of grieving following the end of an important relationship, to the deep kind of depression that can last for years. The information in Escape from Depression may be helpful, even crucial, in every form of depression. Healing Journey is designed to soothe the mind, emotions and soul, as well as the body. Inner Child Healing followed by I Am can provide an invigorating and renewing contact with the vitality of your deeper Self. Accepting Change and Relaxation and Inspiration (both audio and video) are widely used, and as you get back on track, Personal Excellence will come in handy. Or you can try the comprehensive program, Power and Self-Esteem, or read Dr. Miller’s Deep Healing book or listen to Deep Healing book on tape. Sometimes a person needs to simply take charge of their lives in a positive way, as you are guided to on Awakening the Leader Within.

Disease, Chronic disease

Acute diseases, like measles and broken bones, are short-lived, and often due to external causes. Chronic diseases usually involve inner processes (such as aging and degeneration) much more than outside ones. Western medicine is excellent for acute disease, but woefully inadequate for chronic disease. Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape, supply crucial information for how to deal with your chronic condition. Healing Journey is a favorite for working with chronic disease, and Change the Channel on Pain and Easing into Sleep can be enormously helpful. Because chronic disease often requires significant change in lifestyle, Escape from Depression and Accepting Change are useful, and Awakening the Healer Within provides an understanding of how mind-body techniques work. A Time to Heal is a beautiful video imagery experience, and the CD, The Silent Path, provides a soothing, healing musical background.

Divorce

There are several challenges in going through and recovering from a divorce. Stress is central, and Letting Go of Stress, Ten-Minute Stress Manager, and Relaxation and Inspiration video may prove to be lifesavers. Restoring a centered, calm, balanced self-confident sense of yourself may be accomplished with Inner Child Healing, I Am, and Accepting Change, Moving On. Easing into Sleep and Writing Your Own Script can be very useful during and following divorce so that your mind and wisdom guide your behaviors. Serenity Prayer can help you make the kinds of decisions you really want to make. Power and Self-Esteem Comprehensive Program or Personal Excellence provide an opportunity for in-depth self-study and change. The Silent Path CD provides soothing music for frayed nerves. Abolish Anxiety and Escape from Depression guide you to a place of deep relaxation, giving you the techniques and empowerment to create the future you really desire.

Drive-time course, Deep Healing course

Personal Excellence contains six heart-to-heart lectures exploring personal mission and purpose, self-acceptance, self-motivation, achievement and the development of a personal mission. The following programs can be used entirely (in most cases) with eyes open, while driving or engaged in other activities, or as a didactic training experience. Deep Healing book on tape is an excellent foundation and overview. Awakening the Healer Within explores, even more deeply, the application to chronic diseases. Serenity Prayer discusses the all-important role of wise choice in healing of mind, body, emotion and behaviors. Launching Your Day demonstrates how wise guidance can be self-administered in the form of spoken affirmations. Inspired Imagery is of special value for therapists, as well as those who wish to create the most effective kinds of imagery. Stress Fitness I and Stress Fitness II discuss the essence of stress, its role in health and disease, and how it can be harnessed for peak performance. The Power of True Self-Esteem features an interview by Michael Toms delineating the importance of true self-esteem.

GI problems, stomach, bowel, colon problems

Most functional problems of the gastrointestinal tract involve tension in the smooth muscles of its walls, and/or inflammation in its mucous lining. Relax the tension with Part A of Letting Go of Stress. Healing Journey is good for imagery for soothing inflammation and Change the Channel on Pain can bring about a more pain-free condition. The comprehensive program, Self-Healing, offers a number of tools that may be useful. Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape, can help you understand the relationship between mind, emotions, muscles and gastrointestinal problems—as well as providing some effective ways of supporting your own healing.

Grief, loss, death and dying, bereavement, Major Change (death, family change, job loss), Letting Go

For most of us, acquiring, having and keeping things is associated with comfort, pleasure, satisfaction and achievement, and losing or letting go of things can produce pain, overwhelming sadness and depression. Accepting Change and Moving On teaches you, experientially, the inner skill of letting go. This tape, as well as Serenity Prayer, is useful for death and dying as well as the "little deaths," losses of things, abilities, relationships, health, etc. After a serious loss, it feels as if a piece of you is gone; therefore, Inner Child Healing and I Am are effective for reestablishing an inner sense of wholeness, as is Healing Journey. Stress and sleeplessness during the recovery from a loss can be treated with Letting Go of Stress and Easing into Sleep. During the recovery period, the video, A Time to Heal, and Rainbow Butterfly may prove very soothing and relaxing, and the principles found in the book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape, can help you understand how to better flow with the process. The Silent Path is a CD by Robert Haig Coxon, which provides soothing and relaxing music during the releasing or recovery period. Abolish Anxiety offers excellent techniques to teach you to use your breathing to create a relaxed, secure state of inner peace. Escape from Depression explains depression as a state of being cut off from your spirit or heart, that which has meaning for you. You can escape from that state by coming into the present and being guided through the states of healing from depression.

Changing your behavior patterns, behavior modification, rescripting your life, mastering change

Headaches (tension, caffeine), migraine, neck pain

Headache Relief presents powerful, time-honored techniques for preventing and eliminating headaches. You may also find the incredibly soothing Healing Journey effective for this purpose. And because stress is so often a factor in headaches, Letting Go of Stress or Ten-Minute Stress Manager may also be quite helpful. General pain reduction techniques are presented on Change the Channel on Pain, and A Time to Heal (video) presents another effective way to relax tense, painful muscles, as does the music-only CD, The Silent Path, by Robert Haig Coxon. The mechanism underlying most headaches, and how the mind can be used to help with the healing is presented in Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine or Deep Healing book on tape.

High blood pressure, hypertension

Down with High Blood Pressure will show you how to use imagery to reduce stress, relax blood vessels and lower blood pressure. A valuable aid for relaxing and healing the cardiovascular system as a whole. Because stress is so often implicated in diseases of the cardiovascular system, Letting Go of Stress and The Ten-Minute Stress Manager may prove valuable, as may Launching Your Day, which shows you how to enter each day with a healthy frame of mind. The tension and hostility often associated with cardiovascular disease may respond to The Serenity Prayer and Writing Your Own Script. The Relaxation and Inspiration video uses visual images as well as verbal guidance to guide you to relax yourself and your vascular system. Abolish Anxiety may help you relax, free yourself from distracting thoughts, and see that you have other options in addition to the automatic one that is based in anxiety.

Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine and Deep Healing book on tape, help you understand the how and why of mind-body medicine and cardiovascular disease.

Severe illness, Terminal illness, life-threatening illness

Increasing quality of life through letting go of unnecessary stress, releasing attachments to the past, and focusing awareness and energy in the present facilitate the most profound healing possible. This may mean recovering from the illness, or finding a personal, unique pathway to let go with honor and dignity into death. Both Healing Journey and Accepting Change and Moving On are valuable experiential guides for this. Easing into Sleep provides an effective way to ensure the rest needed for balanced functioning, and A Time to Heal video offers soothing visuals along with healing guidance. Awakening the Healer Within, talks by Dr. Miller at the Cancer Support and Education Center where he is medical director, offers valuable guidance, as does his book, Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine or Deep Healing book on tape. At times such as this, it is crucial to be able to have the serenity to accept and the courage to change—and The Serenity Prayer offers experiential guidance in making wise choices. And sometimes soothing music, such as that offered on The Silent Path (CD) is just what the doctor ordered! For those dealing with cancer, Healing From Cancer is an excellent choice. Abolish Anxiety and Escape from Depression will prove valuable in guiding you into the present moment to touch your own inner essence and wisdom.

Insomnia, sleep problems, sleep deprivation

The essential skill involved in going to sleep is being able to relax thoroughly and empty the mind of unnecessary thoughts. When we rid ourselves of the environmental stressors that create insecurity and anxiety, sleep comes naturally. "Easing into Sleep" features side A, Escape from Insomnia—a 45-minute experience few have ever heard the end of. Side B teaches you how to put the day’s worries to rest and program a bright tomorrow. "Healing Journey," because it is so relaxing, is also a favorite for people going to sleep—its background, as well as side B, Breathing Music, was created by Raphael.

"Source Meditation" teaches a meditative technique that can be used to clear the mind so that sleep can come. "Accepting Change, Moving On" is especially good when thoughts or worries keep you awake. It teaches you how to release and let go of that which is no longer needed in your life. "Relaxation and Inspiration, the Video," provides Dr. Miller’s guidance and more than 20 minutes of beautiful, soothing images that ebb and flow, encouraging restfulness and sleep.

For those who like to read themselves to sleep, Dr. Miller’s book, "Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine" can help you enter the state of unconsciousness while learning more about yourself and the ways you can solve the problems in your life underlying your sleep difficulties. The Deep Healing book on tape provides another way for you to gain this information.

For a gentle musical guidance into sleep, there are few better choices than "Silent Path," the CD by Robert Haig Coxon.

Meditation, Centering (affirmations, wellness, massage imagery, purpose, mission, awareness, vision), spiritual awakening

Meditation, allowing stillness and silence to quiet mind, body and emotions of tensions and distractions, plays a major role in all of Dr. Miller’s experiential audio and video programs. Special attention to the meditative aspect is given in Source Meditation, as well as Rainbow Butterfly, and Healing Journey. Launching Your Day and Serenity Prayer are "waking" meditations that you can use while engaged in other activities. Accepting Change and Moving On is a meditation on emptiness based upon the "Tao Te Ching," as is the beautiful music on Silent Path CD. It is excellent as a background for meditation. Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape offer valuable insights on the application of meditative techniques to the many forms of healing.

Negative attitude (depression), frustration, anger, attitude adjustment

Harmful negative attitudes are a harmful substitute for effective action—they paralyze and destroy. Serenity Prayer will help you decide whether it is wise to accept and move on (Accepting Change and Moving On or Letting Go of Stress can help with this), or to act more decisively (Launching Your Day, Writing Your Own Script, or Optimal Performance can help once you’ve made this decision). Ten-Minute Stress Manager can be used anytime for a quick re-focusing on your goals. Still, Personal Excellence is the most effective all-around program for choosing and going after what you really want and what will bring you true, deep satisfaction. Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape discuss the origin of positive and negative attitudes, as well as showing you how to use deep relaxation, imagery and affirmations to adjust your attitude. Depression can be mild or severe, ranging from the "dysphoric" feeling when your team fails to reach the Super Bowl, the weeks of grieving following the end of an important relationship, to the deep kind of depression that can last for years. Escape from Depression offers a new perspective on the mechanism of depression and guides you through a graduated series of experiences to rescript the mind and nervous system. Awakening the Leader Within shows you a different attitude to bring to the world and a way to take charge of mind-body emotions and behavior.

Pain (acute, chronic, mental, physical, control) and pain relief, analgesia

Change the Channel on Pain will teach you important techniques for using your mind to bring relief to your body. The A Time to Heal video has proven itself in hospital recovery rooms nationwide. Headache Relief and Healing Your Back present specialized pain relief techniques. Successful Surgery and Recovery can show you how these techniques can be used before and after surgery. Healing Journey has proven most valuable for pain relief for more than two decades! Soothing music can also be of great help. Dr. Miller suggests Robert Haig Coxon’s The Silent Path. Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine or Deep Healing book on tape, offer insights into ways to use the mind to alter the perceptions and behaviors of the body.

Peak performance (mental, physical, sports, athletics, academic, career), sports, athletics

The secret to delivering your best performance, at work, in sports, on the stage, or wherever, is developing clear mental focus, releasing unnecessary inhibiting tension, and clearly visualizing and motivating mind and body to your desired end. Personal Excellence shows you how to do this, while coming from your deepest convictions. Ten-Minute Stress Manager contained a high-speed self-programming experience, and Optimal Performance is a more complete single tape program for applying the techniques of mental image rehearsal. Performing at your peak individually or with a group is the subject of Awakening the Leader Within. For peak performance at the global level, there’s Healing Our Planet.

Personality Modification, Changing your behavior patterns, behavior modification, rescripting your life, mastering change

Pregnancy, childbirth, labor and delivery, birthing

Great Expectations offers essential concepts for both mother and father. Rainbow Butterfly and Healing Journey can be helpful during the periods just before and after delivery. Change the Channel on Pain and Easing into Sleep are especially useful during the recovery process. Deep Healing, the book, and Deep Healing book on tape can help you better understand and use the intricate connections among body, mind, emotion and spirit. A low mood after birth may respond to Escape from Depression.

Relationships, intimacy, co-dependence, divorce, relationship problems, sexuality

Relationships fail due to the inadequate development of an independent Self, unclear boundaries and unreasonable demands and expectations of Self and other. Inner Child Healing and I Am, as well as Personal Excellence, help you develop a more secure sense of Self. Writing Your Own Script will enable you to create new ways of interacting with others, and Finding Serenity will help you break the bonds of co-dependency. Sexual Intimacy is a sensitive guide for men or women, individually or as couples, to opening to richer, more rewarding sexual experiences. The book, Deep Healing, or Deep Healing book on tape, explores the inner skills, attitudes and images that can help you develop the capacity to be a whole person in a whole relationship. Escape from Depression and Abolish Anxiety both offer a heart-to-heart talk enabling you to gain an understanding of depression and Anxiety—then guide you through exercises to retrain or rescript your deeper mind and nervous system. Awakening the Leader Within presents a different way to look at yourself and those you relate to – as being able to relate in a different way.

Relaxation (how to relax), Muscle Tension

The comprehensive program, "Stress Reduction," offers several tapes and CDs, as well as the book, "Deep Healing"—and represents a complete course in how to relax. Abolish Anxiety offers excellent techniques for self-relaxation.

Relaxation is a key to recovery from most serious illnesses, the direct antidote to stress, and an essential step in achieving peak performance. "Relaxation and Inspiration Video" provides beautiful, soothing, relaxing visual images accompanying Dr. Miller’s gentle guidance. "Letting Go of Stress" presents four effective techniques for relaxing and countering stress, with music by Stephen Halpern. "Healing Journey" is a beautiful and deep relaxation experience, which includes healing imagery. The musical bed for this experience, as well as the entire musical composition, "Breathing Music," on side B, was created by Raphael.

For relaxation that guides you into a deep sleep, try "Easing into Sleep." "I Am: Awakening Self-Acceptance" presents two relaxation experiences which focus on self-awareness and self-esteem.

"Relaxation and Inspiration" presents a 12-minute relaxation experience followed by soothing music, and side B is pure relaxation music without narration. Perhaps the most beautiful musical background for relaxation is provided by the CD, "Silent Path," by Robert Haig Coxon.

Self-discovery, personal growth, personal development, spiritual growth, Education and Training, Nurture the Spirit, Visioning

The most solid personal growth and development is built upon a firm base of the awareness, respect and empowerment of the deeper Self, as is presented on Inner Child Healing, as well as I Am and Personal Excellence. Finding Serenity helps with the shedding of unhealthy relationships and the video, Relaxation and Inspiration, helps maintain relaxation and commitment. The most complete program for this purpose is, however, Personal Excellence. The understanding of personal growth, healing, and the interrelationship of body, mind, spirit and emotions are well explored in Deep Healing and Deep Healing book on tape. Awakening the Leader Within will take you to a new level of commitment to yourself and your deeper values – while Healing Our Planet does this at a global level.

Self-esteem, self-image, self-empowerment, self-acceptance, self-confidence, personal excellence, Inner Child Healing

Personal Excellence is a complete program of instruction and imagery for self-esteem building. Inner Child Healing, as well as I Am and I Can, sensitively nurture and awaken your true sense of Self. As explored with Michael Toms on The Power of True Self-Esteem, Ten-Minute Stress Manager is an excellent "quickie" jump-start for use whenever you need it. True self-esteem (as opposed to pseudo self-esteem) is the essence of mental and emotional health and wellness, and the key to peak performance, physical health, and loving relationships. Deep Healing, the book and Deep Healing book on tape explore and instruct regarding the many aspects of self-esteem and healing. Awakening the Leader Within is very empowering way to be in touch with your potential, and to develop self-esteem.

Heal Your Body, Self-healing, self-care, self-help, deep healing, Immune Disorder/Dysfunction, Infection, Injury, Physical Therapy

Healing means the restoration of balance, wholeness, vigor and life. The body is a self-healing system, and Healing Journey will show you how to use mind, emotion and spirit to bring about healing from any condition. The Self-Healing Comprehensive Program lives up to its title, providing a broad range of approaches for any imbalance. Part of any healing is getting enough rest and sleep. Easing into Sleep is an excellent way to lull yourself to sleep at night. When you are healing from cancer, Healing From Cancer can prove of invaluable assistance. If your healing involves surgery, Successful Surgery and Recovery can help you use less anesthesia, heal faster and more comfortably, through using the mind to condition and program the responses of the body to the surgical procedure. Awakening the Healer Within is a lecture presentation by Dr. Miller at the Cancer Support and Education Center, and can show you how to work with whatever treatment you’ve chosen. A Time to Heal (video) provides beautiful visual images along with gentle guidance for enhancing your relaxation and healing. Because the immune system is often a critical piece of healing, the Immunoimagery Video training program will show you the actual workings of your immune system, and provide tools for enhancing mind-body communication and stimulating a healthy immune response. Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing, will help you understand and apply the mechanisms of mind-body healing, or Deep Healing book on tape. Music can be profoundly healing—and for a pure musical healing experience, Dr. Miller recommends The Silent Path by Robert Haig Coxon.

Hypnosis, self-hypnosis

The tools of hypnosis and self-hypnosis are used in many of Dr. Miller’s programs, often integrated with other techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, deep relaxation, cognitive restructuring, etc. Excellent examples of hypnotic-like inductions can be found in Healing Journey and I Am. Direct suggestion is well demonstrated in Inner Child Healing, and post-hypnotic suggestion techniques are widely employed in Writing Your Own Script. Virtually all the principles of hypnosis are well demonstrated in the six experiential tapes in Personal Excellence. Many of these approaches are presented in the book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape. Excellent music for use beneath hypnotic and self-hypnotic inductions you create yourself can be found on Silent Path CD, by Robert Haig Coxon, and on Dr. Miller’s Healing Journey and Relaxation and Inspiration. Visual hypnotic techniques are demonstrated on Relaxation and Inspiration video and Immuno-Imagery video.

Self-motivation

Once you have a good sense of your Self, as from Inner Child Healing, I Am and I Can are excellent motivators, as is Ten-Minute Stress Manager, side two. While driving to work or getting dressed, Launching Your Day helps you focus your true goals for the day and The Power of True Self-Esteem explores the importance of self-esteem in motivating yourself. Personal Excellence is a complete program linking self-respect, personal mission, self-motivation and the use of future visioning techniques. Self-motivation is explored in the book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape. Much of the program, Awakening the Leader Within, is about motivating yourself by being in touch with your deepest values and resources.

Smoking cessation, tobacco addiction, quitting smoking,

Smoking is a complex behavior combining self-esteem factors, social aspects, physical habits and chemical addiction. Smoke No More is a two-cassette series offering four of the most effective techniques for eliminating tobacco from your life. People often use smoking to help control stress, and when they stop, the stress, anxiety and irritability can become quite high. Stress Fitness, Volume 1 and Volume 2 will help you understand how to combat and counteract stress. Letting Go of Stress gives you specific techniques for relaxation and reducing the stress load. Sometimes a more complete program of building self-acceptance, self-confidence and self-success can be valuable to, in effect, "redo your life." Personal Excellence is an excellence choice for this. Dr. Miller’s book, "Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine," and "Deep Healing book on tape," will help you understand how your mind has become programmed to accept, and even crave, health-destroying tobacco products—and you will understand what you can do about this.

Stress Management (stress, release, relief, fatigue), Manage and Harness Stress

The stress reduction comprehensive program offers three audio-cassettes and Dr. Miller’s book, "Deep Healing," and teaches you how to reduce stress and harness its energy for peak performance.

"Letting Go of Stress" featuring four relaxation/guided imagery experiences for managing stress, as well as original music by Stephen Halpern, is the world’s best-selling stress management tape. "Ten-Minute Stress Manager" presents two powerful experiences, each about 10 minutes in length—a rapid stress-reduction process, and a peak performance self-programming visualization.

"Stress Fitness, Vol. 1" and "Stress Fitness, Vol. 2" are heart-to-heart talks by Dr. Miller which will give you a profound understanding of stress, where it comes from, the problems it causes and what you can do about it. "Launching Your Day" can be used while you get dressed or while driving to work. It helps you maintain the relaxed feeling you discover during sleep and sustain it while you connect with your deeper values and prepare yourself for a stress-free, creative day.

Stress is minimized when we choose wisely when to act, and when to let go, and "Serenity Prayer" helps provide an understanding of how to do this—and can be used with eyes open.

"StressBreak, the Video," a favorite in the workplace, provides beautiful visual imagery as well as stress-reducing and inspiring guided imagery, all within the space of a coffee break.

"Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine" provides an understanding as well as experiences in support of these principles, and is present either as a book or as a book-on-tape.

Relaxation with Robert Haig Coxon’s beautiful music on "Silent Path" is an excellent way to combat stress. For more information on stress, click here.

Stress may also be associated with Anxiety or Depression. In such cases, Abolish Anxiety or Escape from Depression may prove very helpful.

Surgery, operations, procedures

Your state of mind, level of stress, expectations, and mental imagery have a profound effect on your body’s ability to endure and heal from surgery. Successful Surgery and Recovery teaches the techniques Dr. Miller pioneered in the 1970s and which are becoming standard throughout the world, speeding surgical recovery by up to 25%. Healing Journey is another valuable aid, as is Easing into Sleep—helping with the post-operative course. For those with fear associated with the surgery, Inner Child Healing and Freeing Yourself from Fear may prove to be lifesavers. The video A Time to Heal has become a standard in recovery rooms throughout the world, and the video training program, Immunoimagery, offers imagery and suggestions for empowering your immune system, a crucial part of the healing team. Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind-Body Medicine and Deep Healing book on tape, provide a thorough understanding of how mind and body can work together to create the most positive outcomes.

Weight Loss/Weight Management (obesity, dieting, eating disorders)

Weight loss is easy, just take in fewer calories than you expend! The challenge is choosing the right diet and exercise program and sustaining motivation to stick to them. Permanent weight loss helps you make the mental adjustment you need to make in order to carry out a successful weight maintenance program over a long period. Imagine Yourself Slim offers four powerful experiences, body image building, developing healthy eating patterns, and releasing negative patterns.

When there are other patterns, such as exercise and social behaviors, Writing Your Own Script can help you choose the behavior you want and "program" it in. In our culture, weight problems are often closely associated with self-esteem problems. Inner Child Healing addresses the deepest level of self-acceptance. To endure the stresses of weight loss and maintain a positive health image, Rainbow Butterfly provides two beautiful, relaxing meditative experiences. Sometimes low self-esteem is far and away the major problem.

Personal Excellence provides in-depth experiences for building self-esteem, self-confidence and self-expression. A thorough understanding of the mind-body principles essential to permanent weight loss is presented in the book, Deep Healing, the Essence of Mind-Body Medicine.

Many people have found "Accepting Change, Moving On" to be quite helpful in dealing with the many life changes that often take place as one shifts to a new, healthier body.

Wellness

Wellness is more than simply not being sick; it means developing a lifestyle that supports balance, vibrant good health, resistance to disease, fitness, and a sense of joy in living. Health and Wellness contains four experiences that help you program your mind to guide mind, body, emotion, and spirit toward greater ongoing balance. Because stress overload blocks wellness, Letting Go of Stress and Ten-Minute Stress Manager may prove very useful. Wellness means making wise decisions and Serenity Prayer can help you access your inner wisdom in making the important choices in your life. Writing Your Own Script can help you focus on and create those patterns that will maximize your wellness. Dr. Miller’s book, Deep Healing, and Deep Healing book on tape, explore some of the issues associated with wellness and its relationship to your thoughts, emotions and mental images. Awakening the Leader Within helps you take wellness into the positive direction – using high-quality leadership skills in your life and in your social world.