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the master gardener
psychospiritual approaches

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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Relax, and admit to yourself: "I have developed a cancer in my body and I will feel best about myself when I have let it go." Then see yourself standing in a beautiful garden. Feel your admiration for the beauty and your pride in yourself for having tended this soil and these plants with your own hands. Walk around in this delightful place looking at all of the growth and order. Notice that beyond one row of tall plants that you hadn't looked behind for quite some time, there is a riot of disordered growth. Feel your surprise and dismay. Realize that some time ago, in an uncharacteristic moment of negligence, you spilled a large packet of fast growing seeds. These have quickly become a jungle of mutually oppressive shoots. Notice that these plants crowd in upon each other, as well as upon the surrounding garden. See yourself gently removing the unwanted growth with great care, transplanting those plants that grew well to proper places, those that might provide some food value, are taken for early harvest and those too crowded and twisted to be useful in themselves, removed for composting. Feel loving thanks that even misplaced or misguided growth can prove useful if properly attended to. Congratulate yourself on a job well done and slowly let your eyes open once again. (Chavez)

uses: immune stimulation, cancer, AIDS, Epstein-Barr Virus/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

important point: Melting cancer cells with love rather than hunting and killing (S. Levine); using images from nature (birds pecking at seeds, matter transforms) rather that the Pentagon. (Serinus, p. 210)

imagery for cancer, organ damage, tumors, viruses, etc. - see:
adrenal rescue (Chavez)
bear journey: heart, mother earth (Scully)
eraser: positive thinking (Bry, p. 78)
healthy immune system: immune functioning (Serinus, p. 184, 203)
honey bear: psychic surgery (Chavez)
Kuan Yin journey: bodhisattva of compassion, cleansing (Scully)
life shock: psychic surgery (Chavez)
light fingers: psychic surgery (Chavez)
Mut and Crone journey: intuition, healing wisdom (Scully)
oil well: cleansing (Chavez)
open windows: viruses (Chavez)
perfect white: immune scavenger (Chavez)
rainbow butterfly journey: self-esteem (Scully)
reparenting: self-esteem (Fanning, p. 180)
starving the tumor: tumor blood supply (Fanning, p. 259)
truth being told: spleen and thymus (Chavez)
vitality of life: immune functioning (Serinus, p. 203)
silver-winged bird: immune scavenger (Chavez)
the master gardener: immune scavenger (Chavez)


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