What is Guided Imagery?
Imagery is the language that the mind used to communicate with the body – it translates the mind’s language of logical thought into the body’s language of biological/chemical function, emotion and desire.
Imagery has been considered a healing tool in virtually all of the world’s cultures and is an integral part of many religions. From the ancient Egyptians and Greeks including Aristotle and Hippocrates, to the Native Americans such as the Navajo, to today’s successful athletes such as Tiger Woods, imagery has been used to achieve personal growth, gain insight, heal existing disease, prevent potential maladies, and elicit peak performance.
Intrapersonal Guided Imagery is a form of counseling. During a lite meditative state, similar to day dreaming, both you and your Counselor engage in a two way discussion/examination of your current difficulties. During this lite meditative state, you are helped to get past “the gate keeper of your logical conscious mind” to the underlying emotions which drive your unhappy and self-destructive behaviors. These stealth emotions are what is really preventing you from achieving health, wealth, joy, happiness, success and peace. Most importantly, without reliving or remembering a painful past, you can resolve/heal seemingly insignificant past events, so that they no longer control or influence your actions in the present and future.
The most important thing to realize about intrapersonal guided imagery is that you don’t have to dredge up all your deep dark secrets in order to achieve symptom relief. You don’t have to discuss topics that are uncomfortable to you. You don’t have to remember painful events, which you may have forgotten for good reason. Clients have expressed surprise that “I didn’t have to become a total basket case in public to feel better.”
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