For best possible results, listen every day for 2-3 weeks.
Please listen only when you can focus for 25 minutes, lying down or relaxed in a chair -- not while driving or riding in a car, or otherwise moving about.
Among many others, an exemplary study at the Cleveland Clinic showed that patients who used guided imagery before surgery had less anxiety before and less pain after the surgery than did the control group. The members of the guided imagery group used 37% less pain medication, regained their bowel function sooner, and were released from the hospital an average of a day and a half earlier.