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Imagery is a "picture language," the language
of the subconscious. Combining therapeutic imagery with
cutting edge techniques of meditation, hypnotherapy, Gestalt
Therapy, and Psychosynthesis, Elizabeth's process of Interactive
Guided Imagery enables you to tap the hidden power of
the subconscious mind, and to make significant changes
within yourself.
There are several ways in which Interactive Guided Imagery
can facilitate your inner healing process:
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by creating images which represent the condition you're
seeking to change or heal,
and working with
those images, you can alter the internal states of mind
and
body.
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by "talking to" the cells of your body, you can
generate new patterns of health and vitality.
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by communicating with the parts of your personality-self
which are stuck in fear, anger,
or other negative emotions, you can undo those feelings
and experience greater
integration and wholeness.
The
applications of Interactive Guided Imagery are limitless.
Communicating with your subconscious mind in this way can
help you relieve a headache, heal a disease, or release
negative habit patterns and inappropriate emotional reactions.
What
Color is Your Headache? (Imagery
Exercise for Headache Relief)
Focus
your attention on the headache. Close your eyes and
feel the sensation. Imagine that you could look inside
your head and see this pain as if it were a thing, with
a shape, a form, a color. What does it look like? What
color is it? An image may spontaneously arise or you may
just make something up. Now you can do one of the following:
1.
Continue looking at this thing (eg. A big red square,
a heavy hammer, etc.) and as you continue observing it,
it will begin to change. Keep watching it until it becomes
something neutral or pleasant to look at.
2.
Look at the shape & notice its color. How intense
is it? Now imagine you can actually move it, re-shape
it, or alter it in some way, so that it becomes smaller
and lighter in color. Imagine it getting so small that
it just disappears.
3.
Envision the headache as a ball or balloon. Notice
its size and color. Now imagine that you can change the
color, perhaps by painting it, into something lighter.
Now let the air out of the balloon and watch it get smaller
and smaller and shrivel up.
After
you’ve done this imagery exercise, open your eyes
and check in on the place where you felt the headache.
Where is it now? In most cases it will simply be completely
gone. Sometimes it moves to a different location, or has
lessened but is still there. In those cases go back and
do the process again.
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