New Healing DVD Reduces Anxiety
and Helps You Manage Stress
Especially for Cancer Patients and Caregivers
Free preview + Limited-time offer below... As a hospice volunteer, I’ve had the privilege of comforting critically-ill cancer patients and their family members through the last weeks and hours of life. I laughed and cried as I listened to their inspiring stories and, in some cases, I’ve had the honor of conducting an uplifting memorial service to send them off. Along the way, my wife, Sandi (a talented songwriter, author, inspirational speaker, and hospice volunteer), and I noticed the enormous toll that the stress was taking on patients, families, caregivers and volunteers like us. And we asked, "What Can We Do? How Can We Help?" A little background... I need to step back and tell you that Sandi and I have many years of professional experience in advertising, public relations, publishing, public speaking and the music business. Sandi was the head of a company called StressFree, which helped people regain their inner balance. And I've launched all kinds of new products, written and directed hundreds of commercials and videos, and am an avid nature photographer and photo impressionist. So we decided to apply our talent and experience to finding ways to relieve the stress and fatigue associated with illness. Two ways we can help patients and their families manage stress... The first has to do with caregivers and family members working and worrying themselves into their own emotional and physical illnesses. In the medical field, they call it "Compassion Fatigue" which is defined as "feeling exhausted from caring too much." After testing a couple of ideas with our friends at Kaiser Permanente, we came up with the little handbook HEART WIDE OPEN — Self-Care for Caregivers (pictured at left). Sandi handled the research and writing, and I did the artwork and production. Unique, visually beautiful and practical, this handy 48-page pocket book, contains helpful suggestions for a variety of lifestyles that guide the reader back into balance with gentleness, humor and love. After all, if we don't take care of ourselves, how can we take care of others? Wow. We've got a winner here... When HEART WIDE OPEN came off the presses we were filled with excitement. It gave us a way to reach more than one person at a time. And caregivers everywhere responded. Still, we had no idea how big this would be. As of today, I'm happy to report HEART WIDE OPEN, which sells for $7, is being used by nearly 25-thousand nurses, health aides, and family caregivers in the US alone. We recently added a Spanish edition, the only one of its kind available anywhere. And we'd like to share a copy with you. Free. But more about that in a minute. Time to let go of the stress... The second area we thought we could help with relates to relieving stress. Patients and caregivers are often so concerned and exhausted, they find it almost impossible to relax and get a good night’s sleep. Tami Briggs, a talented friend of ours who is an angelic harpist with a heart for healing, suggested I use my directing skills to create a relaxing video that combined my nature photography with one of her relaxing musical compositions. I always know when an idea is "Perfect" by the amount of creative excitement that wells up inside of me, and when Tami made this suggestion I was over the top. I have thousands of postcard-quality nature photographs from photo expeditions to the Florida Everglades, the Adirondack Mountains, California’s Mt. Shasta, Redwood Forests, and the pristine Pacific Coast. I spent weeks searching through them for just the right shots and several months in editing, to create the most relaxing effect. |
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I’ll tell you a little secret... One of the reasons the editing took so long was that I kept falling asleep during the playback process! At first, I thought it was from the long hours of editing, but then I realized that INVITATION TO SLUMBER was REALLY WORKING. I was sleeping proof if it! This High Resolution Wide Screen DVD Hospitals, hospices and other healthcare facilities are already finding ways to use INVITATION TO SLUMBER for patient rooms, waiting rooms, treatment rooms, recovery rooms and lounges. Since the DVD replays automatically, you can set it and forget it. But don’t just take my word for it. Click the short sample segment below and see for yourself. (Of course, the actual DVD is High Resolution, with rich color and clarity.)
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“Received the package when I got home from work this afternoon. I decided to try a little experiment before watching the DVD: I took my blood pressure (138/78). I leaned back on the sofa with a comfy pillow and started to watch and listen. I could actually feel myself relaxing and the stress of the workday diminishing! Look what others are saying about the Free handbook... 'HEART WIDE OPEN is a bedside, keep-close-to-you book. My heart was enlightened by your warm and tender words. It's truly a treasure." — Sue S., breast cancer survivor, IL Now the Best Part... For a limited time only, you can enjoy this wonderfully relaxing INVITATION TO SLUMBER DVD again and again at a special price AND get a Free copy of HEART WIDE OPEN too! |
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That’s right! When you order INVITATION TO SLUMBER ($33 + S&H), we’ll also send you a copy of HEART WIDE OPEN – Self-Care for Caregivers Handbook, at no charge! That’s a $40 value for just $33. Click the Buy Now button below. |
You’ll be taken to a secure PayPal order page where you can choose to pay with a Credit Card or PayPal. I hope you'll take this important step to reduce stress and sleep better than you have in years. Order INVITATION TO SLUMBER now! Wishing you a peaceful night sleep,
Sterling Heart, Inc. P.S. Multiple copy discounts are available to share with others at your hospital, hospice, or your home health care agency. For information, call me at 619-838-1170 P.P.S. Do you want to know why INVITATION TO SLUMBER works so well reducing anxiety and stress for cancer patients and caregivers? Read on.
MUSIC Music is the first language of the earth – the sound of the wind in the trees, the melody of birdsongs, a babbling brook tripping over rocks as it makes its way downstream – and it touches an ancient and eternal place within us, beyond the logic of the mind. Until recently, Western allopathic medicine overlooked the power of music as a therapeutic intervention. Fortunately, that is changing as scientific studies now confirm that playing music helps a wide range of ailments. In fact, music heals premature babies gain weight faster, surgery patients heal more quickly and easily, and cancer patients experience less discomfort during chemo and other procedures. These studies are validating what primitive people have known for centuries — singing, listening, and creating music of any kind provides an immediate biological and psychological benefit for everyone. Music has a positive effect on a wide variety of symptoms, as it lifts the human spirit in subtle and profound ways. In fact, music is now called “The Physician for Our Times.” In my own experience as a Creative Director in the advertising world, I was often called on to create commercials with high impact emotional appeal. Deliver a great idea with just the right words, visuals, and music to the right audience at the right time, and bingo! You have a winner. The same winning formula is true using music and nature to relieve stress and anxiety. Music enables us to express all kinds of feeling and fears, passions and pain. It helps reduce stress, elevate moods, helps us move through grief, fear and pain, and express joy, peace and love. Music can literally change the way we feel – emotionally, physiologically, mentally and spiritually. NATURE Ah, and then add to the music the powerful healing effect of nature, and you have a winning, healing, soothing solution. In fact, University of Michigan scientists recently found that in addition to being relaxing, spending time in nature also helps improve people's memory and attention span. The calming effect of nature, when enjoyed properly, is something nature lovers have always understood. Nature doesn't make any demands of you. You just can discover it and go as far as you want with it. Look at a beautiful photograph taken in nature and you can feel the sun on your back, the breeze in your hair, the rain on your face. In fact, even just imagining an afternoon respite beneath a shady tree gives your brain much needed rest and a breath of fresh air. Don’t believe me? One of the studies I found when researching this subject talked about patients in one wing of a hospital. They were all there for a similar kind of operation. The rooms on one side of the wing faced a brick wall. Opposite those rooms were others that looked out over a parking lot toward some hills and trees. The amazing discovery that those researchers made was that the people who were on the side that faced the hills and trees, recovered faster, used less pain medications, had fewer side effects and usually were released more quickly than those that faced the brick wall! No matter where you are, soothing sights and sounds will help soften the edges. And INVITATION TO SLUMBER combines the most relaxing music with the most restful nature shots in my portfolio. It’s a powerful tool that will help you relax in a way you may not have experienced in years. To order just click the Order Now button below and we’ll include a Free copy of HEART WIDE OPEN.
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This site was updated March 12, 2009
