GUIDED IMAGERY AND VISUALIZATION

Guided imagery and visualization is a natural state of mental relaxation that we can purposefully generate for personal change work–or simple relaxation for stress reduction.

Most often, but not always, it is done by simply leaning back and closing your eyes while concentrating on an image or sequence of images suggested by the Life Coach & Holistic Counselor. (It can also be done with the eyes open and slightly unfocused.)

It is much like daydreaming with the attention span narrowed or directed toward a particular area of concern.

Ideally, it works best when you can suspend all judgment and analysis while in this altered state, and just open to your creativity, and go with the flow.

Guided imagery has been successfully used for decades by performance and sports coaches. It has been proven repeatedly in many research studies that this method promotes an amazing improvement in nearly any and all activities and skills.

Many people use the terms guided imagery interchangeably with visualization.

In reality, the differences are, visualization refers to seeing or visualizing something in your imagination whereas guided imagery tends to include all the senses: hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, and smelling.

During this procedure, you generally maintain awareness and control over your responses, and will not usually do or say anything that is not personally acceptable.

This state can provide the foundation for much of the rapid change work that I offer.

While you are enjoying this relaxed state, I can show you how to open up that channel of communication with your own unconscious mind so that you can reprogram it for your desired outcomes.

When we become overly emotional with feelings such as anger or frustration, our perceptions usually become skewed. For example, think about a time when you became so full of anger or rage that you couldn’t even "see straight."

During that experience, you were so clouded by your own perceptions that you were unable to relate to the other person in a calm, aligned and objective way.

This guided imagery procedure directs you to bring to mind a situation involving you and another person where you were overwhelmed by your emotions.

You are then instructed in how to bring back into alignment all your perceptions from the perspective of yourself, the other person, and as an imaginary objective observer.

The result is a much clearer experience of both yourself as well as the other person. It also fosters an intuitive understanding of the other person that goes beyond the usual channels of awareness.

In addition, you are then able to unconsciously and automatically use this process of perception and understanding whenever you have a dispute or conflict with another person, allowing a deeper and perceptually clearer relationship.

This simple process offers a graceful way to change unwanted thoughts, feelings, and habits, and achieve goals you thought unattainable.

You can use your blocks or limitations as stepping stones toward attaining your highest spiritual (core) states. These are the states that mystics and mediators spend years trying to achieve.

With Core Transformation, you can reach this spiritual state in just a few sessions, or less.

According to Connirae Andreas and and her sister,  Tamara Andreas, creators of this process, specific changes attributed to this highly refined process of guided imagery include career advances, enhanced prosperity, harmonizing and deepening relationships, transforming "problem" emotions into positive action, improving all aspects of health, and so forth.