Glenda Cedarleaf Author, Hypnotherapist, Meditations for Sleep, Relaxation, Healing, Manage Stress, Prepare for Surgery, Pain Management
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  • My Books
    • Who Are You Santa Lucia?
    • A Guide for Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • Meditative Bedtime Stories
  • Content
    • Healing Imagery for Lyme
    • Testimonials
    • Relax
    • Sleep
    • Journey to Healing Places
    • Spiritual and Archetypal Support
    • Grieving and Letting Go
    • Reconnect with your Inner Child
    • Creativity Meditations
    • Health and Wellness
    • Affirmations
    • Imagine: Bedtime Stories for Adults
    • Intention Focus Empowerment
  • Explore
    • Journey Preparation
    • For Fellow Healers
    • What is Hypnotherapy
    • Trauma: A Case Study
    • Research Article Reprints on Guided Imagery
    • Articles and Videos on Guided Imagery
    • Benefits
    • Affirmations
  • Course
  • Bio
    • Customized Audio
    • What is SoulCollage® ?
  • Listen Clips A-I
    • Affirmations for Well-Being
    • Beginning Again
    • Bedtime Story Sleep Journey
    • Bedtime Story: New Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire and the SageWoman
    • Bedtime Story Claire & Sisters of Assisi
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Grandmother Love
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Spring Inspiration
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Magical Summer Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Autumn Day
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Day
    • Bedtime Story East O' the Sun
    • Bedtime Story: Claire's Winter Solstice Dream
    • Bedtime Story:Gift of the Magi
    • Bedtime Story Rumplestiltskin
    • Bedtime Story: Sleeping Beauty
    • Belly Breathing
    • Blissful Bathtub Meditation
    • Calming Mountain Mindfulness
    • Circle of Support
    • Connecting with Animal Companion
    • Connecting with Your Guardian Angel
    • Connecting with Your Wise Woman
    • Creating an Intention
    • Creativity
    • Divine Embrace
    • Divine Feminine Blessings
    • Ebb & Flow: Breathing with the Ocean
    • Envisioning
    • Fairiy Tales
    • Evening Bedtime Reading
    • Finding Your Healing Place
    • Freedom from Emotional Eating
    • Gratitude Meditation
    • Great Spirit Invocation
    • Grieving With The Rain
    • Guardian Meditation
    • Guided Imagery for Letting Go
    • Guided Imagery for Your "Third Act"
    • Healing Dream
    • Healing Surgery
    • Heartbeat MeditationListenClips
    • Holiday Reading: A Sailor's Gift
    • Holiday Stress Relief
    • Imagery to Meet your Magical Child
    • Inner Child Magical Journey
    • Inner Healer Alchemy
    • Inspired Movement: Becoming Unstuck
    • Intro to Relaxation
  • Listen Clips J-W
    • Journey Through the Chakras
    • LakeHouse Meditation
    • Letting Go Into the Lightness of Your Being
    • Mermaid Magic Meditation
    • Mid-Life Journey
    • Midsommar Meditation with Summer Sounds
    • Mindful Eating and Self-Care Affirmations
    • Mindful Morning Meditation
    • Morning Courage: Medittation/Affirmations
    • Morning Infusion: Come Rise Up Again
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Ocean Sleep Journey
    • Ocean Mindfulness
    • Peaceful Transition
    • Portal of Transformation
    • Pregnancy and Childbirth
    • Remember Who I Am
    • River of Relaxation
    • Progressive Relaxation
    • Sacred Flute: Med for Letting Go
    • Shower of Hope
    • Sleep into Dreamtime
    • Sleep into Dreamtime for Children
    • Sleep Lullaby at the Sea
    • SoulCollage Meditations
    • Stories for Your Inner Child
    • Transforming Challenges
    • Transforming Pain and Discomfort
    • Visualizing Recovery from Illness
    • Your Peaceful Interlude
    • Your Healing Journey
    • Wash Away
    • When you are hurting:Inner Child Alchemy
  • Blog
    • The long lost sister and a flutist
    • Solstice Siddhartha, Sacred Rest
    • A Guide to Writing and Recording Guided Imagery Meditations
    • From Shallow to Divine Feminine Presence
    • Ocean of Reiki Love
    • Hope
    • Where Is The Light ?
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When you find out that you will be having surgery, you may experience a range of emotions including fear of the unknown.  This audio will help you re-orient your mind to positive healing images and suggestions. 
 
You can listen to this audio weeks ahead of time and then continue on with the post surgery audio for as long as you wish.

Research shows that practicing guided imagery can both shorten recovery time and improve the quality of recovery after surgery. It is helpful to make a list of affirmations you would like to be reminded of just prior to and after your surgery.

An Article in Scientific American notes two studies that found that people who used guided imagery recovered more thoroughly and quicker than the control group. The article is titled: 
Mental Imagery May Hasten Recovery after Surgery
By Tori Rodriguez

"In the first study, people who had undergone knee surgery mentally rehearsed physical therapy exercises and visualized the physiological healing process specific to ACL surgery, such as scar tissue becoming flexible with gentle stretching.  According to the results published in the December 2012 issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, the group that practiced imagery showed greater improvements in knee stability and reduced levels of stress hormones. The study authors speculate that imagery may speed recovery by reducing stress, which has been shown to interfere with healing.

The other experiment focused on patients scheduled for gallbladder removal and was published in the February 2012 issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. The patients were randomly assigned to either a group receiving only standard care or to one that also involved relaxation and guided imagery for three days before and seven days after surgery. “We used a relaxation intervention to try to reduce stress and therefore get a better inflammatory response to surgery and improve healing,” says Elizabeth Broadbent, professor of medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and co-author of the study. The first set of imagery exercises focused on being relaxed and ready for surgery, whereas the postsurgery imagery concentrated on the body's healing process.  For example, participants imagined oxygen and nutrients traveling to the surgical wound and helping the body knit the skin back together, easing discomfort and bringing soothing relief.

Compared with the control group, participants who practiced imagery reported a larger reduction in stress, and their wounds showed signs of greater collagen deposition and faster healing. 
This article was originally published with the title Healing the Body with the Mind."

My audio "Healing Surgery " is now sold at the Mayo Clinic Medical Store.



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