Does anyone have any particularly good on line meditation programs or videos from youtube?

Pilot in pain

Pilot in pain

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Not a meditation expert by any means but curious if anyone has any solid on line youtube vids that are helpful to listen to on a regular basis?

Thanks.
 
Search you tube for relaxation videos, guided imagery, healing meditation, PASSIVE progressive muscle relaxation, etc. There are dozens and dozens. You will have to filter through and see what is relaxing to you (particular voice types, music, etc) as some were quite grating on me. Now, I regularly switch and/or find new ones as I get bored with one. Happy hunting!

Also, I would recommend listening with headphones about 30 min before you go to sleep. Then, let yourself drift off to sleep whenever ready.
 
There are Meditation and Relaxation sections under the Media tab in this TMS Forum too, Pilot:

http://www.tmswiki.org/forum/media/category/meditation.13/

They are linked to YouTube where there are of course many more guided meditations.

I think the four guided meditations on the CD enclosed in the jacket of Unlearn Your Pain by Howard Schubiner are quite good too when paired with the TMS recovery program in that book. There is also a 5th guided meditation you can download from Schubiner's Unlearn Your Pain web site:

http://www.unlearnyourpain.com/index.php?Unlearn Your Pain Book
 
I have listened to a small army of them on Youtube but I was curious was there any that were geared specifically to TMS that helped focus in on the issues we all have etc. Thanks for the links. I will check them all out.
 
Hi Pilot, have you listened to Clare Weeks audio, I find it very helpful. Just love
looking at that little bundle you've got! Stay with it, you'll be just fine. Nancy
 
Yes, Pilot, the Howard Schubiner guided meditations are specifically focused on issues associated with TMS. If you do the program in the Unlearn Your Pain workbook, the meditations on the CD reinforce the written exercises contained therein. Schubiner's program is very similar to the Structured Education Program (SEP) on TMS Wiki that I gather you have been doing recently. More detailed, more focused, more ISDTP, with basically the same goal though.
 
Were you able to find Clare Weeks audio's? You may find them so very helpful, Please be
well, and don't get discouraged, you will beat this! I fly a lot and need you to get me there!!
Nancy.
 
Alan Gordon has a free 8 minute meditation in his recovery program:
http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/TMS_Recovery_Program#Mindfulness
You can listen to it in your web browser at the above link or you can download it to your MP3 player using the following link:

Click here to download the mp3 audio
He pauses for short chunks of time and the recording goes silent. Don't worry, he's just giving you time. If you like, we could probably upload it to a YouTube, but you should be able to listen to it in your browser using the above links.

If you are willing to buy a CD, the CD that comes with Unlearn Your Pain is excellent. Another option would be one of the CDs from the Harvard affiliated Benson Henry Institute of Mass General Hospital. The institute was founded by Herbert Benson, a Harvard professor and the discoverer of the relaxation response. Their CDs can be purchased here:
http://www.mghgeneralstore.com/scented-body-care.html
Short samples here:
http://www.massgeneral.org/bhi/store/
Here's some info on the Relaxation Response by the Wikipedia article about it: (reproduced with permission)
The Relaxation Response

The Relaxation Response is a book written in 1975 by Herbert Benson, a Harvard physician, and Miriam Z. Klipper. The response is a simple version of Transcendental Meditation (TM) presented for people in the Western world. In a 1986 survey, the best-seller was the number one self-help book that clinical psychologists recommended to their patients.

Origin

Benson writes in his book, "We claim no innovation but simply a scientific validation of age-old wisdom". People from the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement, who felt they could reduce blood pressure using TM, visited Harvard Medical School in 1968, asking to be studied. The school, which at the time was studying the relationship of monkeys' behavior and blood pressure, told them "No, thank you". But when they persisted, Benson told them he would study them. He met with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi first to find out if Mahesh could agree in advance to any outcome, which he did. Benson mentions in his book that independent studies were already underway by then-PhD candidate R. Keith Wallace working with Archie Wilson at the University of California, Los Angeles, but that no published studies of TM existed.

Eliciting the response

The Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital teaches how to elicit the response in nine steps. Benson's website and his book describe four steps, and two of those steps are essential: a mental device (a simple word, phrase or activity to repeat to keep the mind from wandering) and a passive attitude. The goal is to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which causes humans to relax. A physician with ABC News adds that the immune system works best when relaxed. He said about twenty deep breaths per day, done "with intention", can accomplish this. According to Herbert Benson more than 60 percent of all visits to healthcare providers are related to stress. It causes the “fight or flight” hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine, to secrete into the bloodstream. This incites or exacerbates a number of conditions. They include hypertension, headaches, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic low back pain, as well as heart disease, stroke and cancer.

Benson developed the response which counters the fight-or-flight response described during the 1920s by Walter Bradford Cannon at the Harvard Medical School.[10]

Benson, Herbert, 1975 (2001). The Relaxation Response. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-380-81595-8.
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I am still not exactly clear on how the dialogue journaling is meant to be. If you are meant to dialogue a topic on your list, who are you dialogging with exactly? Is it a point counter point or trying to explain an outsiders opinion on your problem etc? I have been able to get good stuff down in the journaling but the dialogging is still confusing me.
 
But you could dialogue to anyone who might be giving you TMS pain.
If your brother is, tell him in your journal about how you felt about something
that went down between you. or you father or mother or boss or anyone.

It can help you to put yourself in their shoes. Understanding can come from this,
then forgiveness. Forgive them and forgive yourself.

But again, don't journal or think of repressed emotions too much any day.
And I prefer not either a few hours before bedtime.

If the baby keeps you awake at night, don't think about TMS.

Just do some deep breathing and visualize you're on vacation, somewhere
beautiful and peaceful.
 
Walt has it just right, Pilot. You can also dialog with people who have died. Your journal is a safe place in which to say whatever you need to. I also use it to jot down helpful things that I discover in various TMS books.
Love the baby photo ;) My baby is now 20 and away at college!
 
SoundsTrue.com has tons of great resources. I'm especially fond of Jon Kabat Zinn's stuff and Martin Rossman too.
 
I really like shamanic drumming and breath work. This link was one I liked:

And this new video was just shared with me that was a good easy introduction to meditation breathwork:


There are also many decent free meditation apps out there like calm, headspace, ego-less and insight timer!
 
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