Awakening the Healer Within (2 CDs)

Enhance your grasp on the principles of deep healing with this eloquent and informative live presentation by Dr. Miller. Learn how the mind can influence normally involuntary responses of the body, and how adjusting your emotions can have a profound effect on your healing.

This heart-to-heart talk can be listened to anywhere. An inspiring exploration!

To break longstanding habits and establish new ones, you need skills as well as knowledge. Your Software for the Mind CD will teach you the needed skills. In addition, here are some practical hints that can help you achieve your desired goals.

This program was recorded live during Dr. Miller’s 1986 lectures at the Cancer Support and Education Center, in Menlo Park, CA. Because this lecture was delivered in this setting, some of the examples apply to cancer, but the principles presented are true for the healing of many acute and chronic conditions.

Purpose:

• To discover a systems way of looking at disease – to see disease as a verb, not a noun.
• To teach people to see disease as a teacher and as a message to change their lives.
• To explore the relationship among lifestyle, self-image and chronic or life-threatening disease.
• To introduce the importance and the use of relaxation in healing, and to maintain a high quality of life during treatment.
• To introduce the relationship between anger and the immune system and how the immune system is affected by anger or the suppression of anger.
• To introduce types of imagery and how to use them.
• To introduce studies in psychoneuroimmunology which point to the relationship between cancer and attitude, relaxation, stress, and self-image.
• To empower a patient and family to confront a disease with the attitudes which seem to improve survival and quality of life.
• To learn the basic reason for and techniques of relaxation and imagery.
• To improve self-expression.
• To give tools for creating personal relaxation and imagery experiences.
• To teach people how to preserve health and understand the general principles of behavioral medicine.

Recommended For:

People who have chronic diseases or health problems; their families and friends (support system); health professionals and wellness practitioners; people with chronic conditions including (but not limited to) cancer, musculoskeletal problems and muscle spasm problems like headaches, backaches, hypertension, and gastrointestinal problems; people with immune system disorders including allergies and autoimmune diseases; people with inflammatory conditions; people who simply want to preserve their health and understand the general principles of behavioral medicine; and people who want to understand more about interrelationships among their self-image, social behavior, stress levels and physical health.

Supplementary and Related Programs:

Healing Journey - This program features a symphony created specifically for this recording, and was the first of Dr. Miller’s original creations from the 1970s. Pure relaxation and healing imagery.

Easing Into Sleep - Often, anxiety and worry can interfere with your sleep. Easing Into Sleep uses deep relaxation and meditative techniques to help you learn to release tension and be available to sleep.

Letting Go of Stress - Because accumulating stress is at the root of all anxiety, this program is useful for learning techniques to lower the overall level of stress in your life. A Dr. Miller Classic, Letting Go Of Stress is a perennial best seller.

Change the Channel on Pain - This program teaches you to focus awareness away from pain, and thereby decrease its intensity.

Accepting Change, Moving On - Sometimes serious illnesses leave you with losses – loss of bodily organs or functions, for instance. In addition relationships change as well as how you spend your time. Each of these losses requires an inner adjustment. This program helps you through these changes through guided imagery and self-hypnotic mind-tools.

Writing Your Own Script - As you eliminate unnecessary stress and worry, you will find yourself much better able to make positive changes in your lifestyle, your behaviors, etc. This program helps you make wise changes , and to self-program your subconscious mind to support those changes through the use of Software For The Mind.

Successful Surgery and Recovery - Techniques in this program have been shown to speed up post surgery healing by up to 25%! Use before and after surgery to reduce swelling, pain, bleeding, infection, and the side effects of anesthesia.

Self-Imagery (Book) - Discusses the impact of the emotions on one's health and argues that a positive mental attitude can help prevent illness.

This program was recorded live during Dr. Miller’s 1986 Lectures at the Cancer Support and Education Center, Menlo Park, CA. (Because this lecture was delivered to a group of people at the Cancer Center, some of the examples apply to cancer, but the principles presented are true for the healing of many acute and chronic conditions.)

Outline of lecture:

CD 1 – A different approach to disease – Reawakening self-esteem and optimal health – What is a disease and what is the danger in an individual’s reaction to the “diagnosis”? – Change your mind, change your life, change your health – The role of Selective Awareness – Pause for relaxation experience: An Answer to Cancer, #29, or another basic relaxation – How to use imagery – Using positive imagery – Anger and the immune system – Review – An anti-cancer imagery experience – Types of imagery.

CD 2 – The role of faith – Hopelessness, helplessness and the depression of immune function – The role of healthy feelings – The importance of expressing feelings – The “cancer personality” – Taking charge of your life.

Contraindications and Precautions:
Although there are really no absolute contraindications for the use of this product, people who are severely psychotic or who do not want to at least try to follow the guidance offered will probably benefit little from listening. Listening is also not a substitute for needed medical care or psychiatric care for serious mental or emotional disturbance. In any undiagnosed potentially serious condition such as a head injury, again, there will not likely be any harm, but it would be wise to delay their use until an adequate diagnosis has been made. Although no such problems have been reported, people with seizures of any kind, or neurological or with severe neurorespiratory disease, should check with their primary care practitioner for suggestions regarding the use of this program. Likewise, if you are undergoing psychotherapy, share your use of these with your therapist, as he/she may want to integrate this use with your treatment. And, of course, if you are driving or using equipment that requires your full attention, do not close your eyes and do not listen to any program that you find causes you to become drowsy, distracted, or incapable of functioning safely. Programs designated as “Drivetime” should be used with these precautions in mind.