Relaxation by Inner Health Studio

Calming Down from Good News

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:56:00 +0000

This relaxation script is for calming down from good news. It will help you achieve a state of calm so you can focus or sleep as needed.

Relaxation to Decrease Self Harm Behavior

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:26:00 +0000

This relaxation script is for teens or adults with self harm behavior or nervous rituals. It aims to create a feeling of calm and explore more positive coping alternatives.

Relaxation to Stop Feeling Guilty

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:17:00 +0000

Guilt is a feeling of shame and regret experienced when you feel bad about something. Feeling guilty can be helpful if it leads to changing negative behaviors, but it can also be destructive if guilty feelings linger or occur about things you do not have control over.

This relaxation is for coping with guilty feelings and taking positive action for the future.

Relaxation for Overcoming Freeze Response

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:03:00 +0000

This relaxation script uses grounding techniques to help you re-connect with your surroundings if you experience a panic response. By practicing often, you can become familiar enough with these techniques to remember to use them during a freeze response. This relaxation audio can be used in situations that often cause you to freeze. For example, if you tend to experience the freeze response in public places, wear headphones and practice this meditation in a public place.

Practice this guided meditation often when you are not experiencing a freeze response, so you can train yourself for how to deal with panic when it does occur.

Sensory Relaxation

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:57:00 +0000

This sensory relaxation script will guide you to imagine a variety of sensations to help focus the mind and promote relaxation. This journey through the senses will include sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and movement.

Becoming More Playful

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:02:00 +0000

This guided imagery script is for becoming more playful. It begins by guiding you to relax your mind, and then use visualization, meditation, and imagery to get in touch with your inner playfulness.

Relaxation to Deal with Squeamishness

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:32:00 +0000

Squeamishness is a feeling of discomfort, disgust, and anxiety. This guided imagery script will help you in your mind to face phobias or anxiety-provoking situations and deal with squeamishness.

Body Scan and Sleep Relaxation

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:28:00 +0000

This body scan and sleep relaxation is a compilation of parts from other relaxation scripts (Get Back to Sleep Relaxation, Generalized Anxiety Relaxation) that is combined with music and read at a slower pace. This audio will help to calm the mind and body to allow you to drift off to sleep.

Music by Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com.

Water Meditation - Trusting the People Who Do Medical Procedures

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Written by Diana. This story is an imagination journey about a main character who helps you relax and overcome fear of medical procedures. Specifically this story is about the fear of needles.

Relaxation for Taking a Nap

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:53:00 +0000

This relaxation is for calming the mind and falling asleep for a short sleep or for taking a nap. It can help you to get restful sleep when you will not be sleeping for very long, when you are trying to sleep during the day, or when working a night shift that allows you to sleep at work.

Music by Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com.

Meditation for Acting

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:00:00 +0000

This guided meditation for acting helps you, as an actor, to focus on getting into the character’s state of mind, understand the character you are playing, and act effectively.

Dealing with Grief

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:41:00 +0000

This relaxation script is for dealing with grief and loss. This guided relaxation will help to normalize the grief experience and explain the stages of grief.

Overcoming Procrastination

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:49:00 +0000

Procrastination is the act of putting things off. This relaxation script is for overcoming procrastination by dealing with some of the causes of this behavior and increasing motivation to deal with the things on your to do list. Listen to this relaxation audio with the intent to take action within the next 24 hours.

Relaxation for Panic Attacks when Flying

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:04:00 +0000

This relaxation is for panic attacks when flying. Most people experience at least some anxiety in airports or on planes, but for some, flying causes panic attacks. This relaxation script will help to decrease the stress associated with flying and stop the anxiety experienced on air planes and in airports.

You can use this relaxation script while at the airport, when flying, or in preparation for flying to help visualize flying calmly. You can practice this relaxation any time to get rid of flying phobias.

Relaxation to Deal with Loneliness

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:21:00 +0000

This relaxation script is to deal with loneliness by increasing confidence, developing a strong sense of self, and getting ready to take action to decrease loneliness.

Relaxation Update for April 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:17:00 +0000

This is an update for April 2010 on the Relaxation by Inner Health Studio podcast.

I would like to thank the listeners who have contacted me with ideas for relaxation podcast topics. Please continue to submit your requests. You can email me or use the contact form to send your ideas. It usually takes a few weeks before requests will appear on the podcast, but I do try to accommodate all requests as quickly as I can.

If there are types of relaxation techniques you want to hear, topics you are interested in, or relaxation for specific purposes, please let me know! Your ideas help me come up with new relaxation scripts.

I’m excited to announce that I have some relaxation audio products for sale.

I have recently published a relaxation CD called "Guided Relaxation Scripts." The CD is available with or without music, and includes an introduction on how to relax safely, and the following scripts:
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Autogenics
Tropical Paradise
One Minute Relaxation
Anxiety Relief Meditation
Forest Visualization

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Rewriting the End of a Nightmare

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:59:00 +0000

This relaxation script is a lucid dreaming exercise for rewriting the end of a nightmare. Being lucid while dreaming means that you can influence the dream.

In this script, I will tell a story where you are the main character, and you can travel out of a nightmare and into a pleasant dream. Practicing this dreaming exercise can help you to rewrite the end of a nightmare differently.

Use this relaxation exercise when you go to bed, as you are preparing to sleep. You can use lucid dreaming so at the end of the story, you can drift off into a pleasant sleep with happy dreams.

Finding Your Authentic Self

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:19:00 +0000

This guided imagery script will allow you to explore your values and connect with your authentic self. Use this relaxation technique to get in touch with your true self, live up to your full potential, and live according to your true identity.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise with music

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:56:00 +0000

Progressive muscle relaxation exercises are relaxation techniques that involve progressively tensing and then relaxing muscles or muscle groups.

With music by Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com, piece title: Tranquility.

Relaxation to Decrease Fidgeting

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:46:00 +0000

This relaxation script will help you to decrease fidgeting with your hands. This exercise will allow you to reduce anxiety to create a feeling of calm and be still, even when faced with stress.

Relaxation for Obsessive Thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:12:00 +0000

This relaxation for obsessive thoughts can help with obsessive compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders that involve worrying, obsessions, compulsions, or rumination.

Anchoring Relaxation with Music

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:28:00 +0000

"Anchoring" is an effective way to train your body to quickly relax by making an association in your brain between a state of relaxation and touching a specific spot on your hand or wrist.

With music by Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com, piece title: Light Awash.

Relaxation for Anxiety in the Stomach

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:30:00 +0000

This relaxation script focuses on relieving the symptoms of anxiety in the stomach. Anxiety symptoms in the belly can include nausea, butterflies, pain, tightness, digestive problems, and a general feeling of unease. This script will help to reduce anxiety and relieve these uncomfortable symptoms.

Autogenic Relaxation with music

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:25:00 +0000

Autogenic relaxation is a technique that allows you to relax each part of your body by imagining that it is warm and heavy.

Relaxation for Work Commitments Stress

noreply@blogger.com (Candi Raudebaugh, Inner Health Studio) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:08:00 +0000

This script is for decreasing the stress caused by work commitments. Listening to this relaxation audio right before bed can be effective to help you put thoughts of work aside so you can get to sleep.