Product Description
Heartstrings: Visualizations for Pregnancy is a program of music-evoked visualizations specifically created for use during the prenatal period. Each visualization and spoken affirmation was carefully created by Board Certified Music Therapists to induce a peaceful and relaxed body/mind/spirit connection. When used in conjunction with regular prenatal medical care, a woman can feel confident she is providing the optimal environment for her baby’s health and development…. More >>
Heartstrings: Visualizations for Pregnancy
Given the number of tracks on this CD, I was looking forward to a variety of meditations and music to support them. However, most tracks have a one sentence meditation (no music!!) with very limited vizualizations for you to use. I’ve found many other CDs out there which provide a more comprehensive meditation and visualization experience for less money. Not an item which I would recommend spending your money on.
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this CD based on other reviews. I must admit I am a bit particular when it comes to meditative CD’s as certain voices can get on my nerve. This woman had a calm voice but her meditations were super cheesy. I just could not get into it. She would say things like “you and your child are one with the earth”, etc. I could not help but laugh.
Rating: 2 / 5
I purchased another CD by Sound Beginning called Sound Beginning: Guided Meditations for Inspired Living. I loved it so much that I searched to see if they had other products, and this CD came up. I purchased this for my friend who is pregnant. She called to tell me it is one of the best gifts she’s received. She uses it every day and says she doesn’t know how she’d be getting through her stressful pregnancy without it (she’s high-risk with gestational diabetes and carrying twins). So thumb’s up from both of us!
Rating: 5 / 5
I was looking for something to help me relax during my pregnancy, and to have positive affirmations to help with planning for an unmedicated natural homebirth. The music was just OK (some tracks i had to skip) & the affirmations were fine (no music on tracks with affirmations). I did like that these were short, so I could listen for 5 min and didn’t need like a 20 minute block of time. But, I think if I had to buy again I would go with Belleruth Naparstek, since I think her affirmations/meditations (I used while trying to get pregnant) are more in depth, and more useful, and in fact I used hers when I was in labor. That being said, I did have a great labor and delivery at home, so maybe these were useful afer all!
Rating: 3 / 5
The great thing about this cd is that it has powerful visualizations and affirmations but it doesn’t take a lot of time out of your day to get the benefits. I’m a very busy mother who also works full-time and I don’t have a lot of time to devote to this stuff, but I’ve been doing one meditation and 2 or 3 affirmations first thing when I wake up in the morning and also right before I go to sleep, and it has made a world of difference in my stress level. My thinking is clearer and my decisions are more rational in both my professional and personal life. I’m big on getting the biggest bang for your buck, like using the least amount of time to reap the biggest mental benefits, and this cd is the only one I could find that really hits the mark.
Rating: 5 / 5