Reader Testimonials
Readers may send a feedback about the content of the website and the relaxation recordings to Baruch Elitzur PhD.
(elitzurb@artintel.net)
Dear Dr. Baruch Elitzur.
Logged to your site......it's as effective as you said it would be,
Fun to listen to professional neighbor.
Thanx,
Terri D.
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Dear Dr. Baruch Elitzur.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the comfort and relaxation that your relaxation recordings have provided. My mom has been sick with inoperable advanced cancer. We have been doing the relaxation exercises and it helped tremendously. When one ended she would ask for another one. They are soothing and comforting and transport her to a happy calm place. We the family members do it with her, and it relaxes us as well.
Thank you again for much needed quality and therapeutic relaxation recordings.
Sincerely,
Susan B.
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To Dr. Baruch Elitzur greetings
I have been familiar with your site for quite some time and refer it to friends and to people I treat alike. Whenever I lecture in public about methods of relaxation, I recommend your site. Your website is amazing, user friendly and practical. The people to whom I refer this site report that it helps them understand as well as acquire tools for helping themselves. I am especially in awe of the fact that you are helping people and request no financial compensation. I wish that many like you fill the earth.
With heartfelt gratitude, Dr. Issachar Eshet, Clinical Psychologist
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Dear Dr. Baruch Elitzur
I took the time to pay particular attention to your site and find it fascinating. The theoretical material is presented in a clear and detailed manner. It is easy to use in both clinical practice and in psycho-education of the various phenomena. It is also significant that this web site is accessible and concise (sometimes people have no patience for reading lengthy descriptions). I especially liked the detailed explanation of each one of the physical symptoms of anxiety and its relationship to Fight or Flight response. The various relaxation recordings can help many – they are short and practical. I often work with children and I frequently use guided imagery. I am also a teacher in a Cognitive Behavioral psychotherapy program where I train professionals. I refer your site to all my students and patients. Tomorrow I have a meeting with a high school student who suffers from ADHD and fear of exams. At that meeting I will recommend your site to both the student and her parents, and advise them to attentively read the relaxation chapters as well as listening to your relaxations. It is amazing and wonderful that we can get so much theoretical data and relaxation methods generously and free of charge.
Dr. Naomi Dotan, Cognitive Behavior psychotherapist
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To Dr. Elitzur greetings!
I am familiar and very fond of your work and website. I definitely believe that your approach is most important for clinical work with young children. I often make use of similar approaches in my clinic with young children and young adults. I greatly appreciate the fact that you are providing your clinical approach as a contribution, and hope that it will also be reflected in the clinical research field.
Prof. Mark Freed, Clinical Psychologist
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Good evening Dr. Baruch Elitzur!
Your chapter entitled “Overly Cautious/Overly Dearing” is thrilling. You are a very wise man and very knowledgeable. It cannot be taken for granted that you are who you are, and it cannot be taken for granted that you should dispense this knowledge to one and all. In any event I just wanted to thank you deeply from the bottom of my heart.
Natalie
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Dear Dr. Baruch Elitzur!
I have to tell you that your site is amazing and I greatly appreciate and admire the fact that you are freely providing information and guidance to so many people you don’t even know. This is an enormous contribution. The reason I say this is because I had the good fortune of reading many of your fascinating articles on the website. Those changed my point of view and gave me hope and a source to identify with. All my best wishes for your continuing work.
Susan
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Greetings to you Dr. Baruch Elitzur:
I thank you for the vast information I find in your website that helps me enormously. I am just at the beginning of listening to your relaxation recordings and already acquired many tools. Even though I am a graduate of a long-term psychological treatment, it seems that this education is never ending. Many thanks and best wishes for continued good days.
Ruth
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Greetings Dr. Baruch Elitzur:
Lately I have been plagued with anxiety with regard to self control. I coincidentally came across your website and immediately related to the treatment methods you describe as well as to your relatively rare affection (to say the least) for Evolutionary Psychology. It is hard to believe how the methods you write about have an influence even without face-to-face meetings. For all of that I send you my heartfelt gratitude.
All the best!
Robert
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Dear Dr. Baruch Elitzur.
I am sending you a multitude of good wishes and a sea of blessings for success, health and all good things one can wish for in the New Year as well as a giant thank you for helping me and many others. From the time I began reading the various chapters in your site my emotional life has greatly improved and I am slowly returning to myself and am happier. I wish you many more productive years in good health.
Maria
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Dr. Elitzur.
Many thanks for your important, supportive and interesting site. I am a 68-year-old woman and occasionally get attacks of fear and anxiety related to various illnesses I may get at my age. In seeking support I came across your site and downloaded it on “favorites” on my computer. I also referred it to friends. The fact that you enable downloading your relaxation recordings to personal computers and phones without monetary compensation is enabling many people who may be limited financially get help in times of anxiety and stress. The reward you get, and justifiably so, is enormous appreciation and gratitude from many. I wish you continued success and all the best on your continued road!
Sue
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Dr. Baruch Elitzur greetings!
Thank you for initiating and implementing this type of site. Having such a website definitely responds to an existing need. I carefully read all the chapters in this site and felt very connected to your approaches and methods.
With gratitude.
Richard
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Good evening Dr. Baruch Elitzur:
I am 28 years old and suffer from panic attacks and anxiety… I began treatment with psychiatric medications that helps me but I have side effects. In any event, I want to thank you immensely… Your thorough clarification of the symptoms of anxiety helps me feel that I am normal, not alone in this situation, and that there are many others who feel this way. All that helps me feel more stress-free… In any event I enormously thank you with half a tear in my eye.
Marvin
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Dear Dr. Baruch Elitzur.
I know on your website you show that you've done extensive work with children and citizens of the South of Israel that suffer anxiety and other various mental disorders due to the constant rain of missiles and tense environment. I salute you for your concern and time devoted to helping our people in Israel.
Sincerely,
Roi Cohen
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Dear Dr. Elitzur,
My knee surgery went very very well, beyond my wildest imagination, and I even walked a few steps the third day. I now back home and recovering well. Dr. Elitzur, at least 75% percent of the success of my experience I am sure is because of your Relaxation CD, which helped me in a very significant way to handle the entire experience in a positive manner. The night before surgery, I visualized myself walking with my both legs well and strong. I keep listening to the CD every night and it continued to empower and strengthen me. I don't know how to thank you enough for this wonderful opportunity. I hope many people will take advantage of this lifetime amazing work of yours.
Thank you again,
J. L.
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Dear Dr. Elitzur,
I just discovered your wonderful website and your goals. It is a great idea, a noble cause when one knows the suffering of thousands of people in "battle area" in Israel. G' bless you in all your activities!
Ilan Barun
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Dear Dr. Elitzur,
I am a war veteran, suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. At night instead of sleeping, I browse the internet and I found your website. I read all the chapters and I was very impressed. For first time, I understood the psychological meanings of all of my symptoms. Up to now, no one explained it to me as simply put in your website. Don't get me wrong, I still suffer from these symptoms but it easier for me to deal with them. I am less angry with myself for having them. During the day, I take short naps while listening to your relaxation recordings. I shared your site with all my friends.
Thank you.
Issac S.
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Dr. Elitzur,
My therapist recommended that I go to your website and practice different techniques of relaxation that are discussed there. It took me a while to learn all the techniques and to benefit from them. What I enjoy the most, from the very first time I tried was listening to your
relaxation recordings. When I listen to your voice, I close my eyes and forget all my problems. I visualize being in a beautiful pool that heals all my physical problems.
Thank you very much and keep up your good work.
Susan B.
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Dear Dr. Elitzur,
How are you? Since I learned about your website and about your relaxation recordings, I practice them a few times a day. Although I've never met you, I listen to your recordings every day. You tell me to close my eyes, to make a fist, and then to open my fist, to be in a healing pool and I obey you like a little child, (I am 75 years old). The problem is that my wife complains that I listen to you more then I listen to her. I am joking of course; she also likes to listen to you.
Good luck.
Henry G.
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Dear Dr. Elitzur,
I enjoyed reading your theory about anxiety symptoms from an Evolutionary perspective. It makes sense and I am applying it with my patients. I recommend every patient of mine, who suffers from anxiety to go to your website and practice relaxation.
Thank you,
Dr. Ruth, Clinical Psychologist.
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Dear Dr. Elitzur,
I am a clinical psychologist currently working in a child and adolescent psychiatric unit and at the trauma unit with children. I find your website really great and I want to thank you for the project. I gave the address to parents and adolescents I am working with and they
found it very helpful.
Thanks for the good work.
Edith W.
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Dr. Elitzur,
I teach psychology in a state collage. Since I like your website very much, I recommended it to my students. They like it very much.
Thank you.
Bruce L.
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Dr. Elitzur,
I was eight months pregnant with my first baby and I was very anxious. I was introduced to your site about a month ago. I enjoyed reading various chapters and I especially enjoy. Every day afternoon, I listen to one of them. It does not make any difference to me, which one. I love all of them and I got used to your accent. I am looking forward to listening to the relaxation sessions while I am in the hospital, giving birth.
Thank you,
Helene M.
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Dear Baruch,
After reading your website and practicing the relaxation techniques that you recommended, I reached the conclusion that you are the right person, in the right time, and in the right place. As a woman who is suffering for many years of anxiety and depression, I highly appreciate
your site. It gives me short breaks from my suffering.
Thank you.
Sharon W.
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Dr. Elitzur,
I would like to share with you that every day you talk to me very quietly and you put me to sleep. As far as I back as I can remember, I never slept so well.
Harriet A.
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