Visualize Comfort: Healing and the Unconscious Mind
 
This easy-to-read book describes in straightforward language how to harness the power of the imagination to make positive changes in your life. Kristin Prevallet presents research from psychology, neuroscience, and hypnotherapy in a clear and simple way that can be utilized by anyone who truly wants to tap in to the inner resources that we all have. As a poet, she understands the power of metaphor and how language can rewire a person's internal narrative. Our internal narrative is the story we tell ourselves about how we live in the world, and the message that we often send out subconsciously to other people. The book explains how to recognize your internal narratives and is chock full of techniques that use your natural creativity to live the life you want to live.
 
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This book speaks to the importance of having “an empathetic understanding of physical and emotional pain”, and of coming to know the anatomical and causal relationship they have to one another. Embracing what Prevallet calls our “latent capacity” to understand the interconnectedness between these repositories of pain potentiates relief, she teaches the reader how our emotional response to physical pain can either exacerbate or soften it. She invites the reader to be “a listener unto yourself” so that our own immune systems can bring the healing we then become capable of. She suggests strategies, techniques, practices that allow us to move into a new, unfettered space. It’s a book that will be a frequent companion of mind, heart and soul.
 
“… full of common sense information, but also medical facts — aptly blended with a larger and much more ancient historical knowledge of human healing, which in our society we too often forget or suppress. I love the way the author melds poetry with medical and chemical terms. She brings self-healing down to earth and makes it available inside us all.”
 
“Reading Ms. Prevallet’s book feels like getting a fun and digestible lesson on neuroscience and sitting with a kind and funny hypnotherapist at the same time. She writes clearly, fluidly and beautifully. It taught me so much about the brain science of managing pain of any kind, why the mind-body angle is worth contemplating and may actually be astoundingly effective. I will return to this book over and over again and would highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with pain, not only physical but also emotional.”
 
“Saying that Prevallet’s book is like the sugar pill of the placebo is not to say that it sugar coats anything. It doesn’t. She reminds us that we will, of course, continue to have hard times and even to suffer, but also that we don’t need to keep on suffering. She tells us that we can be resourceful when things can get tough and reminds us of the tools we, in fact, already have available to us. Along with all the useful strategies, Prevallet also offers us something just as wonderful: each chapter includes some beautiful and amazing poetry that helps us think about the issues at hand in a different way, on another plane. I loved these moments of embedded meditation. They seemed to let the other information just sink in.”
– Catherine Taylor
 
Generous books are rare but Kristin Prevallet has written a book that helps right away. “Visualize Comfort” offers many different paths to relieve pain, anxiety, and suffering. You can use this book and unlike most self-help books, Prevallet doesn’t talk down to the reader. “Visualize Comfort” talks about relief practices, language, and psychology. Prevallet provides a compete picture of the ways to reduce pain and stress as well as links to a lot of other practices that help–right away.
This small book contains powerful ways of dealing with pain. The author establishes an intimacy that makes the reader want to try the various techniques she introduces. I tried a few of these techniques and was amazed at how effective they were. That’s not to say I now experience no pain; but know that when in pain, I have a path to follow, options to consider. This book will be one I will return to again and again.
James Sherry
 
Kristin Prevallet has written a little book with massive implications. Bringing a poet’s eye to the unconscious, she beautifully simplifies the complexities of the mind and makes practical the path to change. This book is an active metaphor we will all do well to walk within.
Melissa Tiers