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imagery
see through anger
psychospiritual approaches
definition
image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Let yourself remember an important anger that you are either feeling now or have felt in the past and let time fade without resolution. Feel the anger in your body. Notice that it centers in particular places and flows through the rest of your body as if it were a spice or poison in the blood. Allow yourself to see a picture of your anger. Let it be as monstrous and destructive as possible. No matter what form the anger takes, it will retain the quality of a weapon directed in some way at a target. See an image of the target that deserves to be attacked. Let yourself realize the truth about what that target represents. Allow the thought to come into your mind, that perhaps you feel that the target has in some way hurt you. Rather than spend time with the pain of the hurt, realize that it felt better to distract yourself with wanting to hurt the target in turn.
Breathe in and out three more times. Feel the spice of the anger in your blood and understand just how much of a distraction it has become. Visualize your own hurt and allow the visualization of your anger to transform into something that you can use to ease your own pain and fix any damage. As you heal in your visualization, allow the transformed anger to continue changing until in the end, when all of your hurt has been set right, all of your monstrous and destructive vision of anger has been changed bit by bit into an image of love and acceptance. Take a moment to congratulate yourself upon this miracle of transformation and let your eyes open once again. (Chavez)
uses: relief of unresolved anger
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