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imagery
home-made pudding
psychospiritual approaches

definition

image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Allow your imagination to take you into a kitchen where you are a child just learning to cook and excited by the prospect. Your project of the moment is to create a pudding, all from scratch and entirely by yourself. First of course you must choose which flavor is your favorite at this time. Then you must go through all the steps of finding the ingredients and utensils. Fortunately this is a well stocked kitchen so this is not hard. When you are ready, the ingredients mix well and everything follows your intention swimmingly, until you stand at the stove and begin to cook. Part way through, you notice that the change from sauce to pudding has taken a wrong turn somewhere and a few stringy lumps have appeared in the otherwise smooth and creamy thickness. Your dismay at this development is enormous and you can't help but cry. Nevertheless you keep stirring and almost all of the volume in the pan comes out right. Suddenly it dawns on you that repairing such inconveniences is just another part of cooking and before the pudding cools, you pass it through a strainer and take out the offending lumps. Take an extra moment to be proud of your realization. Then allow your eyes to open once again. (Chavez)

uses: fibrocystic lumps in the breast


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