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imagery
long distance
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Let yourself remember a moment when you were very young and every thing felt wonderful and you felt perfectly aligned with your world, if only for that brief time. Realize that nothing can take that feeling away from you, once you have had it. Take a moment now to fully savor those sensations and discover what other moods and states of consciousness such wonderful feelings might lead to.
See yourself as you might look, if that feeling had always been with you. Sometimes at the forefront of your experience, sometimes in the background, waiting to be brought forward at need. Notice the little differences that have developed in this new you. How does this new body stand, sit, lie down or gesture with its hands as it speaks? Let yourself hear the differences in the voice tone. Mark them carefully in your mind.. How does this new you wear its hair? What are the variations of dress, facial expression, and laughter that you notice?
Would you like, in addition to who and what you always have been, to have all of these new qualities, naturally available to you? To be that person and have those qualities at your disposal, as well as be who your already are? Let the answer come up from deep within you.
If you find that the answer is yes, breathe in and out three times again and discover yourself within the body of this new you. Feel the differences in this new body. Feel for yourself just which muscles are stronger, which ligaments and tendons more stretchable, which expressions come most naturally to your face. Feel yourself move around in this new body and get used to it and its ways. Do you still wish to adopt its outlook, ways, and skills?
If so, breathe in and out three times for a third time and see before you two perfect images, side by side. One is of how you have seen yourself up to now, the other is of the you that you have just been exploring. Allow the two images to be slowly drawn together. As the distance between them decreases, realize with a faint feeling of surprise, that each half of your physical body had identified, with the image that corresponds to its side, right with right and left with left. As the two images approach each other in your mind, the discomfort of divided feelings in your body increases. As the discomfort increases, the harder it is for you to draw the two visions together. A most peculiar struggle ensues and you can't help but find it incredibly interesting. Finally, after a long and energetic tussle, the two images have been brought together and your whole body tingles, rumbles, and internally writhes with the effect of feeling two sets of sensations at once. Eventually the process calms down and you are left peaceful and replete, able to be the entire range of self, from the old you to the new and all in between when the need arises. Take a moment to enjoy your triumph and then allow your eyes to open once again. (Chavez)
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