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imagery
bringing back the sun
psychospiritual approaches

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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. In your imagination, wander until you find yourself in a sunny outdoor place that you have never been before. It need not be a special place, just a place that you have never explored. In fact, you may even now be realizing that it is an unimportant place and rather boring. The more that you feel yourself unwilling to be in this place, the less sunny it becomes, until clouds have rolled across the entire sky and cast the whole landscape into shadow. What a depressing place this has become. Take a moment to think back upon how this has happened. Realize that the clouds have come in direct relation to your rejection of this place. After all, it was sunny when you got here. Begin to look and feel around, trying to find anything to interest yourself. Notice that even the act of searching results in the clouds lightening and the day being less dull. Now that the light is better, search some more. There is a single small stone very near your hand. Pick it up and examine it closely. Realize that though it has elements in common with almost any other stone that you have ever seen, it is nonetheless as individual as you are. Notice how bright the day is getting as this realization strikes your mind. Place the stone in your pocket, to remind you that no matter how common it may be in type, it is unique in itself. A little farther off there is a flower. Move up to it and examine it at least as closely as you did the stone. This single flower is a gift and a wonder. Marvelously precise where it is symmetrical, exquisitely unique where it is not. This is beauty. This is astonishing. A little farther on there is an oval frame. In the frame there is a mirror. When you pick it up and look within, shining back upon you, you see the sun. Take all the time you need to bask in its warmth and light, them allow your eyes to open once again. (Chavez)

uses: depression


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