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Emmett Miller MD

Master Therapist, Coach, Mentor
Acclaimed “Father of Mind-Body Medicine”

Over 50 Years Ago

Dr. Miller realized that the most powerful tool for healing was the mind-body connection. He made it his mission to develop a deep understanding of the role of the higher levels of the mind in producing profound healing and life transformation. To use his world-famous voice to create powerful mind tools for the healing mind, body, emotion, and spirit.

My Vision:

A world where we have upgraded our “mental operating system,” evolved beyond the ruling paradigm of fear/conflict/violence, and allowed our deeper wisdom to inspire a New Paradigm of Love: compassion, caring, joyful relationships with self, friends, family, community, and environment.

Dr. Miller and His Work

Some 50 years ago, Dr. Miller broke ranks with “Mainstream Medicine” showing the most potent tool for healing was the mind-body connection. He demonstrated that the body’s ancient stress response was a central factor in most physical, mental, and emotional illnesses. He showed that a simple and enjoyable process of relaxing deeply and focusing the higher levels of the mind was the direct antidote.

He then developed the mind-tools of guided imagery, deep Self-awareness, and mindfulness and made them available worldwide at a minimal cost through a new invention, audiocassette tapes! Gradually, the world and the healing professions awakened to his ideas, which are now at the cutting edge of science and therapy.

Dr. Miller’s teachings and recordings have led thousands to health and happiness, and he continues to create beautiful high-quality self-healing mind-tools and products for the healing of mind, body, emotion, and behavior.

“Through the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Miller taught and lectured at numerous colleges, medical schools, and professional psychology programs. Instead of attacking what’s “broken” in people, he taught the more potent approach of seeking what is good in people and strengthening it, allowing healing from within.

His audiences were stunned by his use of something utterly new to them, a self-induced altered state of consciousness guided by his warm, soothing voice, producing beautiful images of nature, safety, peace, and Love.

He developed this tool, guided imagery, by studying hypnotherapy, meditation, and prayer, then combining the most compelling aspects of each. The result, “deep relaxation,” was perfect for melting away the stress at the basis of most illnesses and dysfunctions and for opening access to inner wisdom, love, healing, and spiritual guidance.

Unfortunately, while Dr. Miller was putting people in touch with their inborn power to heal, be happy and loving, and perform at their peak, greed and corruption were also at work. 

Unscrupulous media forces were developing mass hypnosis techniques, such as propaganda, disinformation, and advertising to disempower people. The learned helplessness they produce causes the unconscious “monkey mind,” to be vulnerable and accept the instructions implanted to buy their product, vote for their candidate, believe vicious lies, and act with hate speech and even violence.

Never before have we needed Dr. Miller’s stress management techniques, self-soothing, wisdom, and loving spiritual guidance as much as we do now! Listen to those who have experienced his teaching and advice, and then let yourself have a most pleasant experience that can heal you and transform your life.

Healing Journey

Listen to this clip from “Healing Journey” the audio program that awakened the world to the power of Deep Relaxation and Guided Imagery to heal.

Dr. Miller Bio

Often referred to as “The Father of Mind-Body Medicine,” Emmett Miller, MD, is best known for his recorded Guided Imagery Meditations. His revolutionary work in creating the holistic approach to healing and the first Guided Imagery audiotapes in the 1970s placed him decades ahead of mainstream medicine and psychology, where he continues to generate new insights, breakthroughs, and products.

After graduating from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1967), he quickly realized that, in many ways, mainstream medicine was missing the boat. To this young physician, it seemed clear that most of our illnesses were caused or exacerbated by stress, stress-induced habits, and addictions. Unaware of this, physicians and psychologists were failing their patients by not teaching them to use the power of their minds to heal, eliminate addictive behaviors, and take charge of their lives. 

Because he was a mathematician who had studied computer programming in 1962, he was one of the first physicians capable of realizing that the mind/brain is actually a bio-computer. It perceives, reasons, and experiences emotions according to the algorithms (sets of rules followed in calculations and other problem-solving operations) programmed into it, usually without our knowledge or consent, especially in childhood. He then proved that certain states of consciousness, such as deep relaxation, hypnosis, meditation, and profound prayer, are really programming states for the mind/brain. 

His next step was to develop patterns of mental images that would quickly result in desensitization, reprocessing, reprogramming, and literally rewiring the brain (via neuroplasticity and creating your own future. 

Emmett with Ram Dass

His first Guided Imagery recordings spread knowledge of his techniques worldwide in the 70s and 80s, as he and a few colleagues (see footnote) worked to transform the fields of medicine and psychology. The notion of writing new scripts for the mind/brain (cognitive behavior therapy) is, at last, becoming much more accepted in today’s world.

Dr. Miller received professional acclaim for his first book, Selective Awareness, The New Science of Mind-Body Medicine (1973)

This Book explained his new theories and practical approaches. Along with his newly invented Guided Imagery audiocassette programs, it spread awareness of this robust set of healing tools throughout the health care field.

In the 1980’s many elite athletes, including many Olympic and professional team members, discovered they could maximize their performance using his Mental Image Rehearsal technique. People who desired peak performance in other fields, such as musicians, entertainers, students, and businesspeople, found his inexpensive tapes a godsend. 

Dr. Miller went on to serve as a lecturer or preceptor at many universities and medical schools, including the University of California and Stanford Medical School. His book, Deep Healing – the Essence of Mind-Body Medicine (1997), has become a classic in the field. He has also trained many classes of health professionals and consulted with numerous companies and health care organizations.

Deep Relaxation Session with Dr. Miller

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Miller has continued to work with patients and clients by Zoom and telephone, publish new applications of his “Software for the Mind,” and produce regular free Guided Imagery Meditation webinars.
His patients and clients continue to appreciate Dr. Miller for his warmth, gentleness, wisdom, experience, and of course, the magic of his voice.

Dr. Miller’s Guided Imagery Products

 

Many years ago, Dr. Miller realized that the mind-body connection was the most powerful tool for healing, and that it was being ignored by the Healthcare System. It became his professional mission to introduce the psycho-bio-social approach into the field of medicine and psychology. Since then, he has become a trusted source of knowledge and wisdom in the healing field and is committed to creating quality self-healing Mind Tools and products for individuals and professionals to use to heal the mind and the body.