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imagery
skin deep
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Relax and enjoy the comfort, of letting go of all the nagging worries and concerns that fill a normal day for every normal person and let yourself rise pleasantly above the norm. Feel yourself gently floating away from certain hard realities of yesterday, or perhaps some day before, into some particular, sweetly unexpected, joyous new realities of tomorrow. Realities of greater satisfaction and comfort than any well-meaning parent or statistically blinded teacher had ever foreseen for you in youth. Notice, as you contemplate the all-important path of transition, from the past into the future, that the skin upon your body may indeed represent, in the present, the effect of time gone by. Holding the past in the now, not letting the eternally open now become any future that may be, but instead binding your choices in the now, by the encrusted scale-armor of past hurt. Allow your imagination to toy with this discovery and let the rank unfairness of its truth begin to burn deep within you, running hot blood from the core of your being throughout your body. Feel the blood rushing as the temperature rises. Feel the body heat increase, as the hot fluids swirl. Realize that this very indignation may itself become the tool to free you from the tyranny of the past. As this realization fills you, let your mind take note of the already uncomfortable, often hot and itchy, hidebound portion of your skin, and notice how already it all begins to melt and be reabsorbed by the living tissue underneath. Now, let yourself deliberately get hotter deep within and feel the liquid rush of this fire rush through your arteries out to your skin. Smile with satisfaction as you realize how much more quickly the armor melts away to be taken by your healthy self as fuel and material, from which a far more pleasant future can be molded and powered for yourself. Notice how the heat of resentment and anger has transformed itself through your success, into a pure, bright fire of enthusiasm. Then, allow your eyes to slowly open once again.
(Chavez)
uses: eczema, psoriasis
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