Jeremy Olson, MSocSc · Waikato University
Free guided imagery practices for living well with Parkinson's — grounded in research, honest about the evidence, and offered alongside your medical care, never instead of it.
What the science says about mental practice and Parkinson's. Plain language, cited throughout.
Five practices targeting gait, movement, balance, fine motor, and wellbeing. Free to use.
Parkinson's is a progressive condition, so the language of "recovery" — of getting back to how things were — doesn't belong here, and this site will never use it. But it would be too cautious to offer only comfort and acceptance, because for some Parkinson's symptoms there is real, published evidence that mental practice can help — modestly, as a complement to medical care, but genuinely.
Symptom management and quality of life, within a progressive condition — not getting better in the sense of going back, but living well, and sometimes moving with a little more ease.
The framing, the neuroscience, and an honest, badge-by-badge account of the evidence — with every claim traceable to a named source.
Five practices, each a calm three-phase guided session — a personal synthesis of an established therapeutic tradition, clearly labelled as such.
Each practice targets a different part of living with Parkinson's, and each carries an honest evidence badge — Moderate where the research is real if mixed, Emerging where it's early or indirect. None is a treatment; all are complements.
No paywall, no email required, no ads. Everything here is open, and it will stay open.
Every claim is tied to a named study and badged by strength. Weak evidence is never dressed up as strong.
These practices sit alongside medication, physiotherapy, and your Parkinson's team — never in place of any of them.
If anything here ever seems to be standing in for your medical care, that's a signal to step back, not lean in. The purpose of this site is to sit quietly beside good treatment.
Jeremy Olson is a psychology graduate and solution-oriented hypnosis practitioner based in Auckland, New Zealand, with a background in quality-of-life research. He does not have Parkinson's himself, and doesn't claim the authority of lived experience — this site grows out of his research training and his work in the Ericksonian therapeutic tradition, offered in good faith and openly labelled as a personal synthesis.