This mind-body therapy uses your imagination to help you relax, relieve symptoms, stimulate your body’s healing responses, access inner strengths and resources, and tolerate procedures and treatments better.
Affordability and access
Prescription required?
- No
Other names and brands
Guided imagery may also be found with these alternate names:
- Active imagination
- Creative visualization
- Hypnotic visualization
- Purposeful daydreaming
- Visualization
- Waking dream
Where to access
Guided imagery is widely available from practitioners, or as audiotapes, scripts or videos, many available at no cost on YouTube and on apps. We list some here as a sample.
Free of cost
For purchase
Guided imagery meditations and books ›
By Belleruth Naparstek, LCSW, and others, includes programs for people with cancer
Find a health professional
Meditation / Creative Visualisation ›
Find practitioners or clinics providing guided imagery
Affordability
- Generally inexpensive (less than $500 US/year), with professionally led classes or sessions costing between $20 US and $150 US