Product Review

This guided mindfulness meditation by Traci Stein, gifted psychologist, masterful hypnotherapist and nationally noted behavioral health expert, consistently delivers impeccable, impactful meditative guidance. Among the innumerable benefits her mindfulness exercises offer are improved concentration, emotional resilience, remediation of pain and much improved coping. There are also data to show improved sleep, greater self-acceptance, and achieving a healthier weight. Dr. Stein s brilliant, psychologically informed awareness meditations combine the best of classic contemplative meditation practice, state-of-the-art guided imagery and potent hypnotic suggestion, so you can easily develop and maintain your own positive, easy-to-implement practice. On this guided mindfulness meditation audio program, she offers a variety of exercises to sample and enjoy. After an illuminating introduction, you ll find tracks for Breath Awareness, a simple awareness exercise scored to music. A brief guided meditation called The Gift in the Present, a more complex exercise of contemplative meditation, in the now, using all the senses. A guided exercise called The Screen of Your Mind, which teaches open monitoring; or observing whatever floats across your mental and sensory screen, engaging all your senses, with the sound of ocean waves in the background. Affirmations to help reinforce the feeling of being present, aware, mindful and nourished in a more alert mental state. Traci s superb hypnotic pacing, nuanced technique and soothing, comfortable voice combine beautifully with Steve Kohn s richly relaxing meditation music, to produce a highly immersive, meditative experience that makes the practice of guided mindfulness meditation second nature. Repeated listening enhances focus, allows us to perceive challenging thoughts and feelings from a place of healthy detachment, heightens our ability to be present and live more fully in the moment, and fosters feelings of calm well being. (57 minutes)