Topics on CD
Click on one of the links below to find out more about each of
the tracks on the CD.
Track 1 - Welcome
Invites you to experience prayer with your senses.
Track 2 - His Radiant Embrace
Leads you through a nature meditation and uses that to build personal
strengths.
Track 3 - Healing Light
Guides you to decrease pain and improve healing.
Track 4 - Blessed Dreams
Helps make sleep easier and dreams more productive.
Track 5 - Sharing the Light
Use the visual images to pray for others without words.
Track 6 - God's Loving Shield
Avoid feeling the pain of hurtful words or actions by feeling God's
protection.
Track 7 - Nourishment Connection
Enjoy healthy foods and eating behaviors while being in-tune with
your body.
Track 8 - Fitness With God
Enjoy excercise with spiritual energy.
Track 9 - Reinforcing the Light
Create constant reminders of how it feels to be embraced by God's
love and blessings.
Track 10 & 11 - Alternating Tones
These tracks have alternating tones, but no words, to allow for
personal reflection.
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Track Descriptions
Track 1 - Welcome (1:20 minutes)
You are invited to experience a spiritual connection with God that
uses your senses, rather than words, to strengthen, protect, and
heal. This is not an intellectual tape that you can listen to in
the car. It is a meditation that requires becoming quiet and thoughtful.
Listening with headphones allows you to get the full benefit from
the alternating tones so that the message becomes something you
feel.
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Track 2 - His Radiant Embrace (12:48 minutes)
The nature meditation establishes the primary images that are used
throughout the entire Healing Connection Prayer meditation. Here
the listener is guided to visualize a beautiful place in Nature
where they can feel peaceful and leave any worries, doubts, or concerns
behind. It is very important that listeners notice body sensations
related to that special place in nature. These body sensations are
the key to being able to recall the positive sensations when necessary
during the weeks ahead. The listener is guided to notice colors,
sounds, smells, and sensations such as the warmth of the sun or
the cool breeze.
In order to make this experience more intense, the listener is directed
to experience the miracle of a beautiful flower growing from a tiny
life-filled seed. After experiencing this one miracle, the listener
is guided to notice all the thousands of these God-given miracles
in his or her special place in nature and draw all these miracles
in close to form a visual image of being surrounded by God's love.
Most people notice this "concentrated embrace of God's love"
as a light, glow, or mist with a personal color and temperature.
This special colored glow representing God's concentrated love
is used here to strengthen personal resources, and it is used in
every part of the Healing Connection Prayer to accomplish the desired
goals.
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Track 3 - Healing Light (10:06 minutes)
In the healing section, you are guided to appreciate the amazing
healing machine that is your body. Your body and mind are constantly
working to heal any physical or emotional wound, but often you need
to facilitate God's healing. You would wash a cut and apply medical
treatment. You also may need to clean out emotional wounds by thinking
it through, talking it out, or by seeing a professional. Before
rushing to stop the pain, you should listen to what your body is
telling you and respond to its needs.
You will be guided to use your own "special colored glow of
God's concentrated love" to go to the places within that need
healing and notice the blessing. We believe that this healing takes
place on different levels. First, when the body is in a relaxed,
meditative state, it can dedicate all its energy to the natural
immune system so that it can fight off infections and other threats
that cause disease. Next, you tap into the special healing qualities
of faith and prayer, which cannot be explained, but nevertheless
are very real and documented.
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Track 4 - Blessed Dreams (6:45 minutes)
This section guides the listener to use their "special colored
glow of God's concentrated love" to improve sleep. They are
guided to repeat the meditation every night before going to bed
and to create a list of personal blessings (half-full thinking).
Focusing on these positive images before going to sleep not only
relaxes the person, but also helps those resources and God's blessing
to be available during the dreaming process. After all, dreams are
a time when we naturally process internal emotional material. If
we go to bed with negative images, those images will be there for
our dreams to process. If we go to bed with positive images of God's
love and our own blessings and resources, our dreams can be much
more constructive and we can sleep better.
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Track 5 - Sharing the Light (4:30 minutes)
The Healing Connection image of God's concentrated love can be
used to pray for others. By visualizing our loved ones surrounded
by our special colored concentration of God's love, we can visually
notice God blessing them, without our having to make suggestions
to God.
The Healing Connection Prayer is comparable to non-verbal communication
between loved ones. There are times when body language and non-verbal
messages are the most powerful means of communication. I equate
the meditation to "sitting next to a person that you love and
not needing to say anything, but feeling the intimate connection
- this is prayer without words."
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Track 6 - God's Loving Shield (4:33 minutes)
The special colored glow of God's concentrated love can be used
to shield the listener from rude or hurtful words. By visualizing
God's protective light all around you and using it to filter out
the unnecessary messages, the listener is able to avoid taking in
the hurtful messages, and instead may even be able to feel compassion
for the abuser- who, himself, is likely to be hurting. This in no
way excuses the abuse, but helps the listener to avoid the damage
done by the abuse. The armor of God's love, visualized as a glow
or light all around, protects and shields. It shifts the focus away
from the abused person and onto the abuser where the real problem
lies. Instead of acting or feeling defensively, the abused person
simply does not accept the abuse, and does not let the bad feelings
penetrate.
Sometimes this exercise will bring up hurtful memories that need
to be processed with a professional EMDR therapist. If negative
images persist, the listener is guided to create an image of a special
container to hold these negative images. That "memory container
might be a box, a jar, a filing cabinet, or a junk drawer where
the painful memory can be stored, temporarily, until you have the
support you need and the time is right to completely resolve it."
The listener is guided to "put this container somewhere far
removed from your special place in nature. It is important that
your special place in nature be free of concerns so that you can
get the most benefit from going there."
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Track 7 - Nourishment Connection (11:43 minutes)
The powerful visualization of God's love is applied to the miracles
in every bite of nourishing food that you eat, helping you to have
a greater appreciation for the food and the miraculous way your
body uses it. The image of God's love around and in the food is
paired with reminders that are used to develop healthy eating behaviors.
For example, instead of using food as a stress release, several
cues are in place to help you "reach instead for a healthy
glass of fresh water and notice God's healing, soothing glow around
and in the water as you drink it. Feel that healing glow go first
into your stomach and from there penetrate every part of your body."Your
new attitudes about food are reinforced by a positive sense of feeling
in tune with your body and to God's love that blesses it, thus doing
away with feelings of deprivation brought on by "dieting".
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Track 8 - Fitness With God (6:59 minutes)
The listener is directed to appreciate the awesome gift of movement
and delight in the sensations of stretching and moving. They are
guided to notice the natural alternating - right/left - movements
of our body in walking and other activities. Focusing on this right/left
alternating movement is encouraged as the person walks or exercises
and at the same time takes in the awesome beauty of God's creation.
Exercise is a gift, not a chore.
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Track 9 - Reinforcing the Light (4:03 minutes)
The last section of the meditation provides important ways to reinforce
the positive images of "your special colored glow of God's
love" in everyday life. The body sensations are paired with
objects and sensations in everyday life. For instance the positive
body sensations associated with the special colored glow of God's
love are associated with each experience of feeling the sunshine,
each experience of seeing or drinking water, or each experience
of seeing the color of the listener's special glow. Every place
in the listener's world should be connected with the image of the
glow so that it will be readily available in stressful times and
in good times.
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Track 10 & 11 - Alternating Tones
A section with music only is provided for people who want to personalize
their experience. You can choose to listen to the alternating sounds
of the music and create your own meditation. You may want to spend
more or less time on a specific image than the recorded meditation
allows. You may want to listen to music only when going to sleep.
Listeners are encouraged to use this music-only section in any way
that works for them.
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