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imagery
darkwood brightmeadow
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Let yourself sink gently down into the deepest levels of your endless imagination and then relax into the realm of self acceptance, that you inevitably will find there. As you wander through all those private memories and personal qualities, hopes and intentions, that are present for your inspection, there, within the treasury of your imagination; eventually you will find a dark forbidding forest about which you cannot help but have forebodings or perhaps memories of fear, frustration, and disappointment. A challenge place, within which to prove yourself against an impossibility of success. A place perhaps, even of humiliation and failure, without sunlight or warmth. A location within you, where you are alone. Realize that these unwanted feelings bare a familiar flavor, and let yourself be determined that this time through, you will meet the challenge wonderfully well and not be overwhelmed. Allow yourself to breathe in and out three more times, bringing in the power of life on each inhale and scattering discouragement to the winds on each exhale. Then let yourself drift placidly through the dim, unpleasant but no longer threatening landscape. Looking first for companionship that you can trust and be relaxed with. Far off through the trees, catch a distant view of the one who is your true beloved. There is not much you can recognize at this range but in your heart you are certain. Let yourself approach her quietly and notice that at the same time, she herself is approaching you. As she gets closer to you, certain things about her may surprise you but even so you take warm delight in them. It takes the space of many heartbeats for the two of you to come at last into each others' arms and with each step your awareness of exquisite, unexpected differences from your conscious expectations is enhanced and with each enhancement, you grow more pleased. Suddenly and at last you are together, embracing with relief and enthusiasm, that seem to last forever. When, after an endless moment, you lift your eyes from her perfection, you notice that you have come together in an opening among the trees. A meadow saturated in transcendent sunlight, protected from all intrusion, filled with the love she holds for you as well as the love that you hold for her. Allow yourself to feel, to your amazement and delight, that your bodies are becoming intertwined. Not only limb by limb but cell by cell and that together you become and immortal, towering and ever fruitful tree; standing unchallenged by the forest that surrounds and protects you but no longer can encroach upon you. Realize in your heart, that your dearest wish is fulfilled and your greatest pleasure attained at last. Take all the time you need, to savor the wonder and satisfaction, then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)
uses: impotence
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