Virtually everyone can benefit from the information presented in Using Guided Imagery for Surgical Support: A Comprehensive Guide for Nurses, Massage Therapists, Doctors, Energy Workers, and Anyone Who Believes in Our Healing Potential because eventually everyone knows someone who will require surgery or another serious medical procedure.

Healthcare Workers Need this Information

If you encounter such individuals on a regular basis as part of your work, you are the type of person who will benefit the most from being well-trained in Surgical Support. If you are employed in health care—whether that care is physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual—you would benefit from the training manual and the workshop. Knowing how to use guided imagery to help heal contributes to a successful outcome is of universal benefit.

When your patients or clients say that they need surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or other serious medical procedure, you will know exactly how to help them and how to help them help themselves.

For specific research on presurgical support, see Peggy Huddleston’s Research. Her findings show that patients who prepared for surgery had improved postoperative outcomes, including a reduction in use of pain medication, less blood loss, fewer surgical complications, and shorter length of stay.

These are, of course, all important factors and help the costs—not only financial, but also psychological—of surgery and other serious medical procedures.

Benefits of this SCS Program

The principal advantages of the SCS program is that it goes beyond what is typically thought of as mind-body medicine. The need for surgery or other serious medical procedures presents an opportunity for personal growth. Such situations require more than just a remedial intervention to minimize the physical and emotional trauma of the medical procedure. They require—and present the opportunity for—a generative change that influences the individual’s outlook on life.

Why have “just” an appendectomy when you can have a guilt-ectomy at the same time? Why help people “just” experience less blood loss, when you can also help them be more joyful the rest of their lives?

What’s Covered?

Research about emotions, beliefs, attitudes—about brain function—and immune response is proving to us that, in fact, being able to imagine is key! Because humans process their subjective experience, in part, as pictures, when one says, “I just cannot see how I will get through all of this,” according to Dr. Emmett E. Miller, author of Deep Healing: The Essence of Mind/Body Medicine, we are not just hearing words, we may well be witnessing destiny. Miller’s work shows clearly how beliefs and images become actual physical events in the body. You will have a comprehensive understanding of the importance of the use of guided imagery, along with proven techniques for both general and specific applications, and directed practice using guided imagery for surgical support, and other medical procedures.

Who will benefit from this workshop?

This workshop is for you if you want to use your brain to meet the challenges of life for yourself and others. Participants in the workshop will learn appropriate use of simple, yet profound, communication strategies that will not only help your patients and clients be relaxed and confident about their medical procedure, but also may change their outlook on life so that they can enjoy a greater sense of health and well-being in body, mind, and spirit. Although, some participants will be taking this workshop primarily for self healing and inner work, you will be learning a comprehensive tool appropriate for nurses, doctors, massage therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, and others in the health care or helping profession.

CE Contact Hours Available for Nurses or Massage Therapists

Healing Touch Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA. The Healing Touch Program is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider under Category A. Provider Number 150588-00. 8 CE contact hours available ($15)

One Day of Training—A Lifetime of Change

When you decide the training is right for you, in just one day, you will learn the fundamentals of working with patients or clients in both pre- and postsurgical situations. You will learn how to arrange for “guilt-ectomies” along with medical (or dental) procedures. You will learn how to use both verbal and nonverbal communication to promote desired outcomes.

Most people, for example, are unaware of the power of negative commands. If you say, “Don’t worry,” you are actually telling the person to worry in the same way that “Don’t think of elephants,” leads a person to think about elephants. Most people are also unaware that where and how the word but is used in a sentence influences the way others respond.

Compare the following:

• Most people recover quickly from this surgery, but some people get sick from the anesthesia.

• Some people get sick from the anesthesia, but most people recover quickly

In just one day of training with SCS, you will learn to make this shift in hypnotic commands and numerous other communication strategies that will not only help your patients and clients be relaxed and confident about their medical procedure, but also change their outlook on life so that they can enjoy a greater sense of health and well-being in body, mind, and spirit.

For more information, see the Preview of our Comprehensive Manual and Convenient Workshops see our current Training Schedule for the workshops we already have scheduled. To arrange for a workshop in your area, call/write now: (269) 921-2217 or Debra for a quick email message.