It's a kind of a deliberate daydream. Guided imagery, or visualization, involves mental exercises aimed at allowing the mind to influence the health of the body. The patient imagines sights, sounds, ...

PHILADELPHIA — Guided imagery can lower HbA1c levels, reduce depressive symptoms and decrease neuropathy in patients with diabetes, keynote speaker Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD, psychotherapist and ...

Researchers have found that self-guided positive imagery training can successfully combat negative emotions in our daily lives. This tool is so powerful that it also changes the way our brain ...

Cognitive therapy is an effective management strategy for urge incontinence. Cognitive therapy employs deep-breathing and guided-imagery exercises that train the brain to control the bladder without ...

Mental imagery might help you “find a happy place” in more ways than one: it can actually hasten recovery from surgery, according to two recent studies. In the first study, people who had undergone ...

Don't expect Downward Facing Dog or the Child's Pose in Alabama classrooms. Yoga, along with hypnosis, meditation and guided imagery exercises, are officially prohibited in the state's public school ...