Psychological Healing
in the Roman Catholic Mystic Tradition

Relaxation Recordings Faithful to the Catholic Tradition

 
Introduction | Relaxation CD | MP3 Files

 
ENTAL HEALTH professionals often tell patients troubled by anxiety or depression to “learn to love yourself and be happy.” But this advice only misses the point—it’s like trying to cover over crumbling rust with shiny new paint.

From a Christian perspective, the root of anxiety is a lack of trust in God’s providence, such that, when facing the unknown, you worry endlessly about how to “figure it out” on your own. And the root of depression is a lack of trust in God’s justice, such that when encountering any hurt or insult you fall into a desire to take matters into your own hands to get revenge, but, feeling helpless to overpower others, you turn your anger onto yourself as unconscious self-blame.

All that worry and all that self-blame is rust on our souls that prevents us from getting close to God. It’s a self-limiting sort of dynamic that keeps us stuck in our own unconscious despair. For no matter how many times you say, “Jesus, I trust in You!” if you say the words only intellectually, without deep and loving trust in God, those words will do no more to heal your fear than a coat of paint can fix crumbling rust.

A genuine experience of relaxing trust in God is, therefore, important to mental health and essential to spiritual growth, but almost all—if not all—commercially available psychological relaxation recordings sanction New Age spiritual beliefs that can contradict the Catholic faith. Accordingly, I have made these recordings for a Catholic listener; you will discover in them a relaxing psychological experience that guides you into a healing contemplative trust in God.

GUIDED IMAGERY CD
FOR RELAXATION AND HEALING

		TRACK ONE: Guided imagery relaxation with a return to full waking awareness. (30:57) TRACK TWO: Guided imagery relaxation that leads you to restful sleep. (29:15) $9.95
Cover photograph by Paul Flores
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Synopsis of the script:
1.	Muscle relaxation
2.	Deepening of relaxation
3.	Life path choice
4.	Affirmations of trust in God
5.	Affirmations of Christian relationships
6.	Affirmations of forgiveness
7.	Affirmations of spiritual health
8.	Affirmations of physical health
9.	Prayers of confidence
10.	Prayers of spiritual protection
11.	Return to waking awareness / Blessings for sleep

THESE recordings are a spectacular improvement over the MP3 recordings that were on this website previously. At that time, to keep file size to a minimum, I had been forced to speak more quickly than I wanted and to use low-quality mono sound. Now, I have recorded in CD-quality stereo; moreover, I have improved and expanded the script itself. D D D Digitally recorded, edited, and mastered.