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imagery
stream tumbler
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Allow yourself to relax out of the everyday and into the extraordinary that is the full scope of your imagination. There is more, of course, within the bounds of your imagination than there is within the bounds of the entire world. Let yourself contemplate that realization and feel yourself floating free in space. See the vast Earth below you. Let yourself float gently down, toward an unspoiled wilderness somewhere on the face of the lovely planet, knowing that this is the surface of an Earth, within the universe of your imagination and anything can happen here. Anything is likely to. Notice, that in this wilderness, to which you have descended, there is a small but lively river. And tumbling within the current of the water are floating stones, made, you instinctively believe, of a certain exquisite candy, that you have always craved and have never found, being constantly, slightly disappointed with every confection that you have ever tried. No matter how tasty, wonderful, clever or expensive the commercial, home made, or custom-crafted candy that you have eaten, may have been. Notice how your body trembles with anticipation. For at last, you will have fulfilled your dream, your desire, your constant and incessant craving for the candy made from the sweetness of life. Let yourself approach the stream and test the waters. You jerk back as you find that they are bitter, biting, with the salty taste of tears, yet are sour, like the taste of the small grapes of winter that no one ever eats. Allow yourself to realize at last the truth that you had never known. All flavors of life come into being together. Even when one quality is so prominent within the mix that all else is forgotten. One may, using the vast and fertile magic of personal imagination, extract one taste from the others, letting the perfection of that sensation, become pure in form, like the tumbling stones of sweetest rock candy, that float and gyrate before you in the stream. Let yourself admit that this one realization alone is not enough to deter your desire and fling your body from the bank onto the closest of the sweets. Grasp the stone in your hands and place you tongue upon the prize, only to discover, that it is melting swiftly and blending back into the stream, which in turn is sweetening immensely and on longer tastes so bad to you. Feel your body being born along upon the current, no longer resisting either the flow or the shifting flavor, and feel the inside of your body shifting quietly in a thousand subtle ways and wonder just what this may indeed be about. Among the many things that you notice is that all flavors in this stream of life are now sweetened acceptably to you and every hint of unnatural craving has left you and certain qualities of fatigue that you had hardly noticed are now conspicuous in their absence and altogether you feel good, ready to explore the new meaning of life, that comes with a constant appreciation of what is sweet in the everyday flow of life's stream. Then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)
uses: diabetes mellitus; hypoglycemia
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