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Remember, creating peaceful moments during your day:
- Affects You
- Reduces the physical effects of pregnancy – sleep better, have less heartburn, have fewer aches and pains
- Creates a time for you when you can put aside all your previous experiences and just be, allowing yourself to fill with peace
- Affects Your Baby
- Creates the ideal prenatal environment so your baby is born with a more peaceful, easier to parent temperament
However, trying to create peace on your own while you are dealing with your very real worries and fears is extremely difficult.
This is where Anji comes in.
Create Peace Now tools from Anji use the physiologic connection between your body and mind to your advantage; to create the sensation of peace in THIS moment, no matter what else is going on in your daily life. These tips, techniques, and products are designed to work at any time, day or night - to create peace for you when it feels as if peace is so far away that you couldn’t possibly create it.
The foundational Create Peace Now tool: A Journey of the Heart CD Series
Jennifer R Bloome, founder of Anji has created A Journey of the Heart, a line of CD recordings utilizing the mind-body connection to give you a sense of peace whenever you need it. The pregnancy CDs are an extension of the CDs for fertility.
The CDs provide a peaceful focus for you during each month of your pregnancy. They make use of the Relaxation Response, a scientifically proven physiologic response that is the exact opposite of the stress response.
What the Relaxation Response is:
- The Relaxation Response is the exact opposite of the stress response. When you elicit this response you create a peaceful feeling throughout your body and mind and your body gets the message that it is safe to turn off the stress response.
- When you elicit this response on a regular basis, your body becomes less responsive to the stress hormones. If your body can’t ‘hear’ the stress messages, it can’t go into the stress response and your body’s natural balance is maintained. By creating peace on a regular basis, you create a positive cycle of emotions.
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The CDs combine several different types of techniques that elicit the Relaxation Response:
- Breathing
- Physical and Muscular Relaxation
- Emotional Relaxation
- Powerful Imagery
Imagery is simply focused daydreaming using all of your senses. Your brain does not know the difference between an image that is real and an image that you think about . Imagery allows you to provide your body with the images that you would like to be real.
When you use the A Journey of the Heart CDs, you will:
- Stop the Stress Response
- Put your body back in to balance
- Have tools that you can use at any time of the day or night that help to alleviate the immediate feelings of worry or anxiety
- Decrease the unwanted physical effects of pregnancy
- Create an optimal prenatal environment for your baby
There are 8 Titles in the pregnancy portion of the A Journey of the Heart CD series. These CDs are designed with several purposes. First, they are designed to elicit the relaxation response and to bring relief from the stress cycle. Second, they are designed from the perspective that everything is happening in your body just as it is supposed to. They are designed to give you the perspective that is hard to maintain on your own when you are dealing with difficulty achieving or maintaining pregnancy. Allow yourself, if only for 20 minutes, to get lost in knowing that everything is developing just as it should in both your body and your baby’s. At Anji, we understand that this is difficult, so we do it for you.
Pregnancy Titles
Trimester CDs :::
Each Trimester CD contains a track to listen to for each month of your pregnancy. Enhance your pregnancy experience, foster a deeper connection with your baby, begin to help form your baby's brain, and prepare for upcoming motherhood.
Each month is designed with the same format. Each exercise contains a general relaxation exercise, scientifically accurate imagery of your baby's development, a chance to "check in" with how you are feeling both physically and emotionally, and ends with a short meditation specific to your stage of pregnancy. Each track is approx 22-25 minutes in length.
Imagery and Meditations in Support of your First Trimester
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Track1: First Month (positive pregnancy test - 6 weeks exactly)
Track 2:(7th week-10 weeks)
Track 3: (11th week - 14 weeks)
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Imagery and Meditations in Support your Second Trimester
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Track 1: (15th week - 19th week)
Track 2: (20th week - 23rd week)
Track 3: (24th week - 28th week)
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Imagery and Meditations in Support of your Third Trimeste
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Track 1: (29th week - 32 weeks)
Track 2: (33rd week - 36 weeks)
Track 3: (37th week - birth)
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Labor and Birth Titles
Even though these CDs have a focus on Labor and Birth, they are for use throughout your entire pregnancy.
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From Conception to Completion – The Journey from Pregnancy to Childbirth
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This is a 3 CD set designed for use throughout your entire pregnancy.
Disk 1: In the Beginning For use throughout your pregnancy, this recording focuses on feeling physically and emotionally well throughout your pregnancy, calming fears, connecting with your baby, and envisioning a gentle, calm birth.
Track 1 - Pregnancy Affirmations
Track 2 - Connecting with your Baby
Track 3 - Building a vision of birth
Disk 2: A Labor of Love - Labor and Birth preparation For use throughout your pregnancy, this recording allows you to prepare emotionally and physically for labor by addressing fears and making relaxation second nature.
Track 1: Golden Light
Track 2: Preparing for Labor Affirmations
Track 3: Color Imagery
Track 4: Garden Imagery
Track 5: Ocean Imagery
Disk 3: It's your Birth Day! Use all that you have learned with the first two CDs. Listen to this recording throughout labor to keep calm and relaxed through contractions. Each of the exercises on this disk are similar to the exercises you were practicing on Disk 2 - your body will know what to do automatically. The wording has been changed to reflect that you are actually in labor and there are no spaces between the exercises and you are never instructed to come out of the relaxed state.
Track 1: Golden Light for Birth
Track 2: Birth Day Affirmations
Track 3: Color Imagery for Birth
Track 4: Garden Imagery for Birth
Track 5: Ocean Imagery for Birth
Disk 2 and 3 are updated versions of Imagery and Meditations for Labor and Birth Preparation.
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Imagery and Meditations in Support of Labor and Birth Preparation
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More than just a CD to think about in the weeks before birth. This CD contains many of the general relaxation exercises routinely taught in childbirth education classes as well as 2 tracks specifically for labor. Each of the general relaxation exercises are designed specifically to elicit the relaxation response. Soon, it will be second nature to you to create a peaceful feeling no matter what else is going on around you. Towards the end of the pregnancy (from 38 weeks on) you can use the tracks to prepare for managing contractions.
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Imagery and Meditations in support of Pre-Term Labor
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Specialty Needs Pregnancy CDs
Using relaxation techniques for 20 minutes a day has been proven to significantly increase pregnancy length as well as weight of the infant. This recording mixes scientifically accurate image and Metaphoric imagery to bring about the Relaxation Response.
Track 1: Imagery for Bed Rest or Pre-Term Labor
Track 2: White light - general relaxation
Track 3: Favorite Place - general relaxation
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Imagery and Meditations in support of a planned Cesarean
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Prepare for a planned Cesarean Birth by emphasizing the health benefits for you and your baby, focusing on the birth of your baby, gaining knowledge about the surgery itself and healing afterwards, and building a connection with your baby.
Track 1: Imagery for Cesarean Birth
Track 2: Favorite Place general relaxation
Track 3: White Light general relaxation
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Imagery and Meditations in support of a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)
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Prepare both physically and mentally for a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. Gain confidence in your body's ability to birth, gain knowledge about how labor should progress, build a connection with you baby.
Track 1: Imagery for VBAC preparation
Track 2: Progressive Muscle general relaxation
Track 3: White Light general relaxation |
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Imagery and Meditations in Support of Breastfeeding
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Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is a nurturing experience for you and your child. Let us ease the sometimes worrisome and difficult journey of breastfeeding so you can enjoy the experience.
Worrying that you aren't providing enough, frustration that breastfeeding isn't working, or trying to fit pumping into your workday can cause anxiety and stress which in turn can lessen or decrease letdown.
Stay out of this cycle by introducing relaxation and visualization during your nursing or pumping session. Relaxation calms both you and your baby and visualization helps enhance let down.
Use the following recordings to help you relax and let go during both nursing and pumping. These are designed for use as you nurse or pump:
Track 1: In the Moment - Creating a peaceful mind and relaxed body to ensure a successful nursing session
Track 2: A Balancing Act - Creating a peaceful mind for successful pumping to balance your family and individual needs
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