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imagery
self-programming
psychospiritual approaches
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Take a few minutes to consider something special, that may make a huge and wonderful difference in the effectiveness of your diligent use of self-guided visualizations: The human subconscious loves to hear its own voice. For your subconscious, that voice is your voice. For your patient, it is his or her own voice. Consequently a highly successful alternate technique for using visualizations (as well as well-constructed affirmations), is to give the patient the script of an appropriate visualization, along with instruction to record the visualization in a calm and persuasive voice. This may be done several times on the same tape making use of varying intonations, inflections, modulations and pacings; a player with an auto reverse function would then be ideal, as it enables creation of what is, in effect, a continuous play loop. The patient could play this recording daily during periods of relaxation, in the background during active periods, and/or while sleeping with a timer to turn the recorder on and (after a suitable period of play) off after sleep has begun. (Chavez and Stargrove)
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