ImaginAction
Good self regulation skills are super important to keep pain and anxiety under control. This website teaches you how you can use your imagination to have more control over your brain, your body, and your experience.
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About This Resource
ImaginAction is a collection of audio recordings that support coping and self regulation skills. What does that mean? Well, it support all the ways YOU can have more control over your body and experience, including all types of pain. It was developed by top experts, and is a fun and easy way to learn self hypnosis skills, and how to better manage the mind body connection to create more comfort and control. This is a project developed for Stanford Children’s Health and led by our founder and CEO Dr. Jody Thomas.
How To Use This Resource
It’s really simple and effective, and requires little to no prep. There is a great video at the start that explains it all. Kids (or parents, or anyone!) choose from a variety of topics (like anxiety, pain, sleep, fatigue, etc), find a space to listen, and can disappear into their imaginations. Headphones are recommended but not necessary.
Who Is This For
It is recommended for anyone 6 and older, but there isn’t any reason younger kids can’t use it if they have the attention span. While the graphics are designed to appeal to kids and teens, adults love it as well. Medical providers use it to introduce new coping skills to kids and families, and it helps explain the mind body connection and the biopsychosocial model of pain. It is very helpful for kids with chronic pain to learn self regulation skills.
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A Note About Keeping This Free
Good pain care should be a right, not a privilege.
We’ve spent our careers treating pain and medical anxiety, and we know that comfort and control come from putting the power where it belongs: in your hands. Everything here is free and open source by design. No parent should have to pay to learn how to get their child through a vaccine or a bad headache. No provider should have to hunt for what they need to do their job well. Hundreds of thousands of people have used Meg tools, and not one of them has ever been asked to pay.
But free still costs something.
We rely on the generosity of people like you to keep it that way. It takes about 1 in 30 of us, each giving $15 a month, to keep these tools available for free. If they helped you and you’re able, $15 a month keeps these resources available the next time you or another family need them.
Thanks for being here. Whether you are able to give or not, I’m so grateful a kid somewhere has you in their corner.
— Dr. Jody, Founder and CEO
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