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imagery
finding the seed
psychospiritual approaches

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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Let the focus of your mind wander slightly until you have come upon a thought that both pleases and relaxes you at the same time. It needn't be a profound idea, just an amusing passing fancy, that for once you take a moment to examine in ways that you hadn't ever before. Realize that this examination, has allowed you to be imaginative in a new and rather amusing way. Take a moment to enjoy the thought, before you discover that without quite intending to, your mind has drifted over toward the subject of warts. Not necessarily a wonderful subject but you are being imaginative and even warts can be seen differently, in the looking glass of the deep imagination. Allow your mind's eye to see the surface of the skin, as if it were the smooth, soft bark of an exotic tree. In that smooth and tender exotic tree surface, a gnarled and stumpy growth has risen up, for no reason that you can see. Since what you can see has told you nothing, let yourself rely instead upon your hearing, and press your inner ear to the ugly growth and listen intently. It may take a while, yet eventually, a certain simple story will at last reveal itself to you. What you hear is that since the tree and its bark is a living being and through it, under the surface, there run wonderful, sensitive and vital fibers, that in some magical manner maintain the integrity of the tree. Normally, the tale continues, these fibers are immune to interference, yet there comes a time when a peculiar vulnerability weakens their defense. Whenever this weakness happens, a tiny boring worm, that often travels through the underlayer beneath the bark, may collide with the weakened fiber and cause it hurt. Immediately, upon this point of hurt, the tree exudes a sap that dries upon the wound and sets even smaller fibers to bind the sap, catching the worm in the wound, encapsulating it as if it were in an egg or seed. And now the tragedy in the tale. For if the magic sensitive fiber were totally well, the story would end right there but since it has weakened, the weight and presence of this seed is an irritation and the process starts again, and then again, and then continues, until the protection has grown beyond the surface and is huge and not of any use. Having heard the tree bark's story, the imaginary answer to the tree bark's gnarly problem, suddenly looks simple to your mind's eye. Taking imaginary fingers you simply grasp the gnarled growth on the sides and slowly and gently push it back and forth, to free it of it's imbeddedness in the bark and pull it free. Bringing out, as part of the overgrown mass, the original seed, encasing the original worm and let the wound at last heal smoothly of its own. Take a moment to congratulate the scope of your imagination, then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)

uses: warts; venereal warts


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