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imagery
tunnel garden
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Allow your attention to wander far from this place and time as you relax those qualities of mind, that keep you busy and overworked and less than happy with your day. This day, among each of the many, which you have always known, should be happy and fulfilling and productive with the calm, pleasant and gently busy, fulfillment of true needs. Let your imagination carry you into a garden, the existence of which, you had hardly realized, although you have vague feelings of recognition, now, as you enter the place. It is a unique garden, with an interesting design. A tunnel, sloping ever upward, with all the plants growing directly from the walls, making no distinction for the floor, the curving sides or for the ceiling. Allow yourself to realize, just what a beautiful garden this must have been. For it is beautiful no longer. A blight has taken many of the sweet smelling flowering plants, leaving the damp, hot house air fetid and sour. Most patches where the the plants still live are weakened, with flowers wilting and leaves covered with a viscous, unsuccessfully protective fluid. Allow yourself to stare in dismay at this ruin of a place of beauty and vibrant life, then notice that not all of the plants have been overcome and that a few here and there, are still healthy and free from the blight that has despoiled and destroyed, so much of the life, in this beautiful place. Let yourself take an inspection tour of the entire tunnel and take a full inventory of all that is left. Realizing,that during all the time that you have been surveying the damage, a determination has been developing in your mind. This garden shall be restored. Feel the power of this determination and understand that it will be easier to fulfill, than it at first had seemed. Allow yourself to take advantage of this, as an imaginary place and let thousands of small furry animals enter the garden, hungry and ready to scavenge all of the plant material already dead and all of the physical substance of the blight, perhaps it was a mold but that does not matter. These friendly furry creatures have the greatest reverence for the living plants and do not disturb them as they clean away all that has been destroyed and all that was destructive, leaving open ceiling, floor and walls to be recolonized with the sweet smelling blossoms that still survive, dotted here and there around the tunnel. Let the furry scavengers go, thanking them as they pass by you, on their way out and then again use the power of your imagination to see the plants spreading throughout the tunnel rapidly and evenly until every open inch of surface is covered with flowers. Then allow your eyes to open once again. (Chavez)
uses: vaginitis
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