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Article: Powerful, yet simple technique increases your healing ability.(Health on a Shoestring)
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- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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It can boost your immune system, reduce pain from headaches, fibromyalgia, and surgery, and lower anxiety before a surgical procedure. Nurses have been using it for decades to reduce stress in patients. Now hospitals throughout the country are adding it to their healing protocols. In fact, it's already available in my small, local hospital and the Kaiser Permanente near me.
This healing therapy became more widely used after hundreds of sound scientific studies found it works to improve our health. The technique I'm talking about is guided imagery--the art of mentally concentrating on positive images to accelerate healing. If you're not using it as part of your ...