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Close your eyes, close out sound as best you can, and picture yourself in a quiet, restful place from your memory. Maybe it's a beach, a certain sunset, a mountain retreat or a park bench. If you cannot honestly recall one, create a scene in your imagination. Go there mentally; see yourself in that spot; smell the air, the salt spray, the pine forest, the flowers; feel the coolness, warmth, tropical breezes. Revel in the moment in that place. Visualize yourself there for as long as you can. While visualizing, it's important to breathe in deeply until your chest fills up with air, then let the air out slowly, repeating the deep breathing throughout the whole exercise.

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Creative visualization is one of the most important tools we have for creating and maintaining good health.

One of the basic principles of holistic health is that we cannot separate our physical health from our emotional, mental, and spiritual states of being. All levels are interconnected and a state of "dis-ease" in the body is always a reflection of conflict; tension, anxiety, or disharmony on other levels of being as well. So when we have a physical disorder, it is inevitably a message for us to look deeply into our emotional and intuitive feelings, our thoughts and attitudes, to see what we can do to restore natural harmony and balance to our beings. We must tune in and "listen" to the inner process.

There is constant communication between mind and body. The body perceives the physical universe, and sends messages to the mind about it; the mind interprets the perceptions according to its own individual past experience and its belief system, and signals the body to react in a way which it feels is appropriate. If the mind's belief system (on a conscious or unconscious level) says that it is appropriate or inevitable to get sick in a certain situation, it will signal the body accordingly, and the body will obligingly manifest symptoms of illness; it will in fact become ill. So the whole process is closely tied in with our deepest concepts and ideas about ourselves, life, and the nature of disease and health.

-Shakti Gawain

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Sit quietly, and focus on your inner being. Don't try to "see" anything, just relax and be receptive to whatever images or messages come. As they appear, focus your attention lightly on them, but don't try to force them to stay on the screen of your mind's eye. Let them flow. Do tune into the symbolism though, and notice what meaning you get from them. What message do they convey? In time, you may come to have very real, clear, "technicolor" movie-like visions. These can be very delightful - who needs TV when you've got your own inner "movie screen"?

Love and light being, Teo Do (Re, Mi, Fa...)

Thank you Teo.
This is a very nice post. Creative visualization is a bit like daydreaming or using your imagination, and it works.

Love,
Sue

Thank you Teo.

I will try creative visualization. This is a wonderful technique to get away from various stresses that we all face every day. Thank you for sharing the idea.

Love
Vicky

Hi, Teo and everyone!

Ohhhh, visualization! I think this practice(combined with meditation)has done more to improve my health and wellbeing more than anything else I can think of! Meditation helps me because through it I can live out of a clear, smooth, quiet place. No more Mind Chatter that used to keep me up at nights, and cause me stress. Visualization has helped me with physical health as well as the overall health of my life! I'm using it in creating loving, positive relationships. I'm using it to create a lifestyle that is loving, peaceful and abundant, and which supports my inner life.

I particularly like to listen to Visualization CD's as I'm preparing for sleep at night. My creativity has been enhanced, and I usually wake up feeling so refreshed and renewed.

Thank you for sharing this, Teo!
Namaste,
Janey

Thank you for the very enlightening post Teo.
Creative visualization is a wonderful tool.
I like Shakti Gawain's book " Creative Visualization." This is the book that really got me involved in this technique.

Inda
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Thank you Teo.
I have enjoyed this post.

Sincerely,
Gisele

SHAKTI GAWAIN: Right. Everybody uses their imagination, although some people don't think they do. A lot of people have such negative beliefs about themselves, they think, "I'm not imaginative." But everybody uses their imagination. An easy way to realize that is, I just ask people to close their eyes for a minute and imagine that they're at home in their room. Well, whatever happens for you when you do that, that's your form of visualization. You may have a clear picture. You may have sort of a vague picture. You may not have a picture at all. You may just think about being at home in your room, or whatever. But that's your form of imagery or visualization or imagination. And I always encourage people just to do what comes easily to them, don't worry about it. People get very hung up trying to visualize, and they just get in the way of the process. If they just --

-- GAWAIN: Well, there are some simple techniques. The main technique is learning how to relax, which is a big one for a lot of us in this society. So I usually teach people some very simple kinds of relaxation and meditation techniques -- just close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, relax your body. Sometimes I encourage people to just lie down and put on some soft music -- whatever can help you to relax -- or some traditional breathing techniques, or whatever. And so the first step is just to relax your body, relax your mind, let yourself drop into a quieter, deeper level of consciousness, which puts you more in touch with your intuitive or creative self. After that, the basic technique of visualization is to create an experience within yourself of whatever it is that you want. That can be an external thing or an internal thing. In other words, you could visualize or imagine yourself in your new house, or your new job. Or you could simply visualize or imagine yourself feeling self confident, or feeling very creative, or learning how to express your feelings more directly, or anything that's important to you.

http://www.intuition.org/txt/gawain.htm

I think that Shakti Gawain is a pioneer in creative visualization. I truly recommend her book that deals with this topic.