Relaxation
Guided Imagery for Stress Relief and Well-Being
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How Guided
Imagery Works by Joel Levey
The Self-Guided Relaxation
CD contains guided imagery -- carefully selected words, music, and sounds to help you
enter a state of deep relaxation.
The ability of your mind and body to be influenced by
verbal suggestion and audio imagery is a principle that you can use to your own
advantage. All of the suggestions presented here are of a positive and healthful
nature.
For best results, listen in a relaxed, alert, non-judgmental way. Listen for the
meaning or the feeling behind the words. Simply allow your body to respond.
On this audio program, there are no subliminal messages ... just a
simple, straightforward presentation of images and ideas to help you achieve dynamic
relaxation.
These sessions use phrases that in many cases have been clinically proven to promote
relaxing and beneficial effects in the body. Your body will respond more to the feelings
you associate with the words than to the words themselves.
Visualization Exercise Keep in mind that there are many
individual approaches to imagination and visualization. Each person will translate
the words, music, and sounds into his or her own unique style of inner-dimensional
experience. Even if you do not see pictures in your mind, you still visualize and
imagine
Here is an excerpt from the Self-Guided
Relaxation CD in which Joel Levey helps you understand your own personalized
response to guided imagery and gives you an experience of how mental images have
an impact on your body.
Click on either link below
to listen to this 2-minute exercise:
Also, here is the text of the exercise that you can read to
yourself for the same effect:
Close your eyes and imagine that you are in
your kitchen and that there on the counter next to the sink is an apple. Reach out and
pick up this imaginary apple now. Hold it in your hand and feel its size and weight.
What color is your imaginary apple? Is it
red? Yellow? Green? Which side of the sink was it on? Although I did not suggest a
specific color or location for your apple, most likely you generated a mental image of it
even if you did not see a "visual image" in your mind.
Mental images have a direct impact on your
body. With your eyes still closed, imagine reaching over to the counter now and
picking up a juicy lemon. Feel its skin and smell its fragrance. Now imagine slicing it in
half with a knife and tasting a bit of its tart, juicy pulp.
Notice how your body responds to this mental image with the
physical response of salivating. In a similar way your body is continually responding to
the constant flow of mental images and their associated emotional feelings.
As you listen to the audio suggestions on this program,
simply allow your mind and body to respond to the mental images that you generate.
Trust in the natural power of your mind to effortlessly
provide you with mental images that will deepen your experience of relaxation.
