This little gem comes directly from Elizabeth's clinical and personal experience while helping her husband prepare for open- heart surgery. The techniques and easy visualizations shortened the length of his surgery by 2.5 hrs and allowed him a swift and pain-free recovery.
Elizabeth has used these techniques and successfully helped others prepare for various kinds of surgery for years with similar remarkable results.
Stanley Krippner, PhD says simply, "This book will save lives."
INTRODUCTION
For nearly 10 years, my husband lived with his heart murmur, and its ever-present swish-swish through his aortic valve. Then his symptoms worsened. He was out of breath more and exhausted after a day at work, and the murmur was more pronounced. So his doctors ran some new tests and he was told he had "SEVERE AORTIC STENOSIS".
Those were the only words he remembered. As a shock wave hit his nervous system like a tsunami, he froze and he did not hear another word the doctors said. Those three words he said, were as tall as the Hollywood sign, in his mind and from that moment on he wasn’t able to hear or take anything else in.
Earlier that day, Chris told his boss he wasn't feeling well. Alan told him to go to VA right away. He shared his news, with a third person present, in case I freaked out, but I didn’t. I shifted from wife to healer and suggested that we needed to talk to his heart and get him ready for surgery and what was to come. That is how this little book came into being.
These visualizations helped prepare his heart, lungs, kidneys and all his organs for open-heart surgery and for being on bypass. By preparing in this way, by talking to his organ systems, this helped his surgery go smoothly. It shortened the length of his surgery from seven to eight hours to five and a half hours. This preparation also allowed his nervous system and organs to not overreact when he was put on bypass.
In these pages I will share what I developed. What we learned along the way in hope of making this life-changing surgery a little less daunting and more in your control, as well as, in the able hands of your cardiothoracic team.
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
CHAPTER 2: How to Begin: Connecting to your Inner Self
Visualization
CHAPTER 3: Opening Your Mind to Spacious Awareness and Equanimity
CHAPTER 4: Creating An Oasis and Retreat
Visualization
CHAPTER 5: Envisioning Protection and Support
Image of Visualization
CHAPTER 6: Positive Visualizations
CHAPTER 7: Talking to Your Blood Vessels & Arteries Before For Cardia-Catherization Procedures
Visualization
CHAPTER 8: Helping your Skin to Relax and Open
Visualization
CHAPTER 9: Talking to Your Skin And Body Fascia
CHAPTER 10: The Body’s Intelligence
CHAPTER 11: Conversations with Your Organs
CHAPTER 12: Giving Blood-Talking to Skin and Veins
Visualization
CHAPTER 13: Intubation-Helping Your Throat
Visualization
CHAPTER 14: Talking to Your Sternum, Pericardium, Heart and Lungs for Surgery and Bypass
Visualizations
Speaking to your Sternum
Speaking to your Pericardium
Speaking to your Heart
Speaking to your Lungs
CHAPTER 15: Encapsulating Aneurysm
CHAPTER 16: Helping Your Bladder and Kidneys
Visualizations
CHAPTER 17: Helping your Digestion
Visualization
CHAPTER 18: Introducing the New Valve, Stents & Shunts to Your Heart and Body
Visualization
CHAPTER 19: Clearing Anesthesia From the Body
Visualization
CHAPTER 20: Talking to Your Brain and Nervous System
Visualization
CHAPTER 21: Introducing the New Valve, Stents and Shunts to Your Brain
Visualization
CHAPTER 22: Clearing Brain Fog
Visualization
CHAPTER 23: Supporting Your Partner or Loved One
Visualization
CHAPTER 24: Ways to Stay Connected to Your Partner or Loved One During Surgery
Visualization
CHAPTER 25: Things the Doctor May Not Tell You
CHAPTER 26: Digestive Aftermath
CHAPTER 27: Body and Mind Motivations- Making Change
CHAPTER 28: Using These Techniques With Other Surgeries
CHAPTER 29: Choosing Surgical Days — An Astrological Approach
CHAPTER 30: Energy and Vibrational Medicine
Four Practices and Guidelines
CHAPTER 31: Useful Images
Heart, Lungs, Kindneys and Bladder, Digestive System, Brain, Skin and Fascia, Credits for Anatomy Images
CHAPTER 32: Conclusion
About the Author
Contact Information
A user-friendly workbook and collection of visualization exercises and practices from Elizabeth's trainings from the past 35 years. Based on her groundbreaking work Transforming Embodiment ® and her unique approach to chakra somatic and past life therapy and deep core healing.
There will be 2 versions of this workbook available one for the general public and one for Elizabeth's students.
This will be available as a trade paperback and ebook. Publishing Date 2025
What I have seen both personally and clinically for 34 years is that your past is held within your body. It sits in its cells, bones, tissues and chakras until you are ready to hear the songs and stories held within your being. When circumstances and events collide with dormant memories and emotions — this is the juncture where deep healing occurs. As memories ripen and emotions surface you are given a profound opportunity to clear and transform the core of your being and release your past like never before.
In the 1975 when I started to study healing and meditation the emphasis was on expanding consciousness, not much was being said about embodiment, memory or trauma. However, as a body worker, I noticed that people wanted for something more. So I began to ask myself: why does emotional pain and trauma persist, why does pain migrate from one place in the body to another? Why does emotional pain that longs so for resolution remain unhealed? How does the past impact the body and mind in the present and are they interwoven in this very moment?
I know firsthand how consciousness is eternal, and how trauma, deep emotional experiences, personal connections, affinities, abilities and beliefs continue and survive. Experiences do not go away — they sit silent and still, subtly and sometimes not so subtly, driving your actions, emotions and beliefs. Our job, I believe as ever evolving human beings, is to make that which is unconscious—conscious and to transform emotional pain into peace & symptoms into healing.
This workbook is a humble attempt to answer these questions and to give each of you new ways to connect, explore, expand and ultimately to transform the very emotions, memories and beliefs that shape and affect your life. Through my own direct experience, in discovering the mind-body's eternal & extraordinary capacity for healing I created an alternative therapy that allows you to look within, find your truth and transform your past like never before.
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