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Steed 20-Item Scale: Ability To Benefit From Visualization (20 minutes)

There are several kinds of meditation, including observational, concentration, and visualization. One's ability to benefit from creative visualization has been found to be determined by one's ability to be absorbed into imagined experience and to experience trance-like phenomena. This oral questionnaire contains items related to this absorbance and trance phenomena. Take it, score it, and see how likely you will benefit from guided meditations and creative visualizations. It's very interesting. <br><br>

Zen-X Pain Detachment Program Secondary Gain Self-Exploration Questionnaire

Secondary Gain Exploratory Workbook<br>Besides warning you of physical problems, pain can help you limit overwhelm, create space, reduce demands, or speak for needs that haven’t yet found another voice. This workbook helps you gently uncover these hidden jobs your pain may be performing behind the scenes.<br><br>What’s Inside<br>A simple five-section questionnaire: the pattern of your pain, what the pain protects you from, what the pain allows you to receive, emotional triggers and warning signals, and your readiness for change. It suitable for personal reflection or discussion with a health professional<br>Who It Helps<br>• People finding it hard to control pain no matter what they do<br>• Anyone exploring mind-body approaches<br>How to Use It<br>Complete the workbook at your own pace — in one sitting or over a few days. Most people experience new insights on the second or third completion. You may use it alone, or together with a health professional or with our guided MP3.<br>Why It Works<br>Pain often takes on extra responsibilities when healthier strategies are not yet in place. When these hidden roles are understood — and alternatives become available — the body can naturally reduce its reliance on pain.

Observing Your Pain (1): Separating Your Pain From The Matrix (23:00)

Experienced meditators observe pain continuously in one session. This beginner’s program asks questions to help you observe pain intermittently in one session. It separates the from the matrix within which it occurs and promotes tolerance. If one question doesn’t apply, focus on the background music until the next question. Listen straight through, then with pauses to answer, and then straight through again. "Observing Your Pain", along with with my other cognitive behavior therapy-informed mindfulness audio programs "Editing Your Pain" and "Pain Away Number 11", has a cumulative effect. When using the download, if the program is going too fast for you, pause it, answer the question, and then continue. Everyone is different. For me, it's fast. For others, it's slow. <br>Photo: Thanks to Pixabay at Pexels.<br><br>

Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend Guided Mindufulness for Pain

This is a 20-item Questionnaire that helps you get to know and appreciate a physical or emotional pain you are currently having. Hear a little Buddhist talk on acceptance followed by metaphorical question and answer approach to observing, understanding, appreciating, and learning from that pain. No meditation skills necessary. Just an willingness to reflect and entertain some ideas. Acceptance of pain changes your perception of it. Here are some simplifications of example questions you will be asked to answer. Q1. How would you rate your pain from 1 to 5. Q2. When and where do you usually feel this pain? Who is often around? .Q5. How does talking about it make you feel emotionally? Q8. If your pain had a name, what would it be? Q16. How might acceptance change your day or feelings? Please find a free downloadable PDF answer sheet to print off and write your answer on. This answer sheet remind you of the questions asked of you during the audio program and give you space to write or enter your answers. So, listen to each question, pause, write your answer on paper. If you want a clickable PDF, email me. Photo thanks to RDNE at Pexels.

Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend. Mindful and Imaginative Acceptance of Pain Answer Sheet

This is an answer sheet to be used with the Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend. Mindfulness Observation of Pain Activity. That activity asks you 20 observational and playful questions about your pain (physical or emotional) and give you 5 seconds to answer. Some questions are a little more involved than others. It will obviously take more than 5 seconds to answer. You can pause the program. and write down your answers. This answer sheet, which you can print off and use, has brief questions to remind you of what you heard on the audio questionnaire and gives your space to answer. I have a clickable answer sheet you can answer on your computer. If you prefer that, email me and I will send it to you: jimsteed@hushmail dot com.

Vipisanna Meditation on Pain

This is a 30-min Mindfulness-Vipisanna (Investigative Mindfulness) activity. We start off mindful of breath, and then add emotion, and then add pain, followed by separating feeling about pain from the pain, itself. We move to equanimity and then to loving kindness. <br><br>Other's comments:<br>“Fabulous. I love it! Thank you 🙏🏻" --Anna West<br>“Very different approach but I liked it.” --Peg<br>“Thank you for this empowering meditation.” --Jen <br> <br><br>

Editing Your Pain (2) (27:00)

Experienced meditators can sit and observe pain as it changes and comes and goes. Not easy. Editing Your Pain allows you to "direct" and "edit" your experience of pain through various imaginative activities. It presents several effective cognitive therapy, mindfulness, and cognitive behavior therapy-informed guided visualized activities. If one activity doesn't suit you, just focus on the background music until the next activity.Practice it several times. Editing Your Pain together with "Pain 1 Observing Your Pain" and "Pain Away Number 11" has a cumulative effect, snowballing over time. Enjoy. Not a substitute for medical attention. If using the digital download, you can pause the program spend a little more time editing. I hope you add it to your collection of mindfulness, cognitive behavior therapy, and cognitive therapy resources.<br><br>Photo: Thanks to Kenji Ogami at Pexals<br><br>FREE LISTENING<br>https://insig.ht/cj7X0YMCBKb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share (Note: you can't pause on Insight Timer. If you want a program you can pause or listen to multiple times, then purchase and down load them here. I highly suggest you listen to my programs many times for full effect.)

Pain Away Number 11 (21:00)

Meditators observe pain changing, coming, and going. In this audio program, number 3 in my pain series, this cognitive therapy-informed guided meditation taps your body’s innate ability to remember and recreate its responses to previous stimuli and produce feelings of comfort. If a certain visualization doesn’t resonate, focus on the background music until the next one is introduced. Practice several times intensively and then every once in a while. Pain Away Number 11 along with "Observing Your Pain" and "Editing Your Pain" has a cumulative, snowball effect. Not medical advice. Enjoy. I hope you see fit to add these pain programs to you collection of useful mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, and cognitive therapy resources.<br><br>Photo: Thanks to Pixabay at Pexals.<br><br>

How Identifying Feelings Keeps You Energized

• Listen to a short talk.<br>• Download and print a PDF of "Right Now I'm Feeling" list of feelings. <br><br>It takes a lot of energy to avoid, suppress, hide, and deny your feelings, frying your brain and making you tired at the end of the day. This session discusses what research has shown about the value of identifying your feelings. I have provided a free and convenient “Right Now I’m Feeling” list of feelings. You can download and print the PDF and start using it to identify your feelings, conserve energy, and take better care of yourself.<br>

How Indentify Feelings Keeps You Energized "How are you feeling?" PDF List

Welcome to Challenging Boredom PDF

B1 Infusing Meaning into a Bored Soul

Learn:<br>• What boredom is<br>• The two main dysfunctional responses to boredom<br>• How they affect addictions, compulsive behaviors, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, and depression<br>• General intervention approaches.<br>• Download the free PDF Welcome to Challenging Boredom (course outline there). <br>Read more…<br>This talk discusses the 2 dysfunctional coping mechanisms used when you are faced with boredom, their effect on addiction, compulsive behaviors like gambling, internet-social media use, snacking, and online shopping, ADD/ADHD, anxiety, and depression, and the pros and cons of common intervention approaches. <br>

B2 Letting Boredom Fizzle Out MP3

• Locate boredom in your body<br>• Answer 10 questions about it in a notebook<br>• Process it and watch it fizzle out<br>• Free PDF summary of 10 questions asked to remind you.<br><br>Body scan to locate your boredom, answer 10 questions about it from an associated point of view (sample answers provided). Pause the program to jot your answers down in a notebook, and then process the boredom in your body. <br><br>Photo thanks to Andrea Piacquadio at Pexels.com and tonal background music, thanks to Tim Kulig at Pixabay.com.

B2 Letting Boredom Fizzle Out Handout Questions Asked PDF

B3 Getting Boredom's Memo MP3

• Elicit the state of boredom<br>• Being present, observe boredom from a 3rd person point of view<br>• Answer 12 exploratory questions about it<br>Read more…<br>Bring your current state of boredom (even your boredom with facing your boredom) or re-create it. Then, practice associating and dissociating from it to answer 12 questions about what you observe, the last two questions are about the memo and boredom's response to your attention. Write your answers in a notebook or on a printed-out PDF handout.<br><br>Photo thanks to Andrea Piacquadio at Pexels.com and tonal background music thanks to Tim Kulig at Pixabay.com.<br>

B3 Getting Boredom's Memo Handout Exloratory Questions PDF

B4 Observing Boredom Unfazed.mp3

• Sit in a meditative position<br>• Sense your here and now<br>• Observe your breath and boredom<br><br>Use Vipassana (mindfulness+investigation) to observe breath and boredom. Repeat any emotion every 5 seconds as it arises, changes, and disappears. No judging or resisting. All emotions have memos, all behaviors have positive intentions, and all things are impermanent, so only patient loving kindness matters at the end of day. No notebook needed. <br><br><br><br>Photo thanks to Andrea Piacquadio at Pexels and background music thanks to Christoper Lloyd Clarke.

Free Inroduction to Creative Visualization for Complementary Cancer Care

Cancer 1 Immunity Support Calling in the Troops

Download this creative visualization with guided imagery found to boost immune responses to cancer. <br><br>This visualization is for people with malignancies who want to take an active role in their therapy. You engage the mind-body connection by metaphorically calling in 'troops' to seek out and remove cancer cells. With a tone of playful command, you visualize immune cells surrounding, targeting, and shipping out the unwanted cells. A touch of humor encourages emotional lightness while fostering serious internal cooperation with medical treatment. Listeners are encouraged to repeat the visualization frequently until they can do it on their own, and to adapt it creatively to suit their own imagery and needs. Photo thanks to Michail Nilov at Pexels.

Cancer 2 Shutting Off the Blood Supply to Tumors

Download this guided meditation with creative visualization for cancer healing containing guided imagery for cutting the blood/food supply to tumors.<br><br>This visualization is for people with malignancies who want to take an active role in their therapy. You engage the mind-body connection by metaphorically going into a control room with valves and pipes leading to different parts of your body. You turn the valves leading to cancerous parts and then follow the pipes all the way to the affected area and clamp them tight, cutting off the flow of nutrients to cancer cells. A touch of humor encourages emotional lightness while fostering serious internal cooperation with medical treatment. Listeners are encouraged to repeat the visualization frequently until they can do it on their own, and to adapt it creatively to suit their own needs. Photo thanks to Clickerhappy at Pexels.

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