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imagery
dancing with flowers
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Realize that even as you relax, your are too anxious to rest. Let yourself feel the restless need within your body to get up and dance, though perhaps you don't quite know how or even what such movement might do for you. Allow yourself to realize that as you have contemplated your restlessness, almost without awareness, the vague image of flowers has hung waiting in the background of your mind. Attend now to those colorful images and notice that there are hundreds, growing in rings. Vast rings and tiny rings, each flower nearly as tall as a human being and each swaying in place to a music only it can hear. Before another thought can enter your mind, find that you are dancing with the flowers. Each and every one is danced with for a moment only but there are many and it takes you long. When at last you are finished you realize that restlessness has been consumed by the ceaseless movement and with its going, so has passed away your anxiety. Take a moment to enjoy the peace, then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)
uses: anxiety
consider the following imagery for anxiety:
Mut and Crone journey (Scully)
rain of light (Chavez)
sand pile (Chavez)
thistle down (Chavez)
the still pool (Chavez)
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