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imagery
fire and ice
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breath in and out three times and allow your body to relax. The essence of who you are sinks gently through the surface, beneath your now quiet body and down into the ever quiet Earth. You notice that the Earth is solid and deep, and that you drift slowly within its vast stillness, without awareness of either time or direction. But there is a soft and familiar impression that you are moving deeper, deeper and ever deeper, as you drift pleasantly to a place of beautiful, vital, and profound importance, of which you had not yet become consciously aware. You wonder briefly, just why it is, that you havent told yourself before, about the place and meaning of where it is you are going. But the Earth remains solid and soundless and unknown, so you continue drifting as you have.
You feel a mild surprise however, as you find yourself passing from the embrace of solid Earth into the openness of a seemingly endless cavern, a place of eternal ice, where immediately your senses begin to freeze. Freezing is natural here and seemingly you can not help yourself, but as you continue to drift, stiffening and ever more uncomfortable, you notice that from the floor of the cavern, a certain gas appears to be seeping upward and bubbling away. As you look more closely at this strange activity, it becomes clear that in places a flame dances hot above the escaping gas.
For the first time since this particular adventure began, your conscious desire comes into play, directing your drift to a point beside one of the flames in an effort to regain warmth and comfort. A great disappointment. The shocking truth, is that here, now, in this subterranean world, where nothing exists but fire and ice, you burn. The shock of discovery triggers the memory that you have always burned, have rarely been comfortable. Which thought brings in turn the question: When have I felt harmonious?
The answer comes on a wave of memory, easy and happy and true. When Ive let myself be the wick of the flame, and not the substance that either burns or does not burn, my total balance has been right! When could I have forgotten this feeling? Relaxing gently away from the question, you carefully place yourself over the bubbling path of escaping vapor. Let it burn through your dream body, noting with satisfaction, that this way you yourself do not burn, but you feel wonderfully vigorous, exquisitely lithe and flexible, and perfectly comfortable in every way. As you let go of the adventure, opening your eyes and feeling good all over, a last thought flits lazily through your mind. At the same time you smile with satisfaction. Perhaps I should always let myself and others know, even those little things I havent allowed my self to know that I know."
(Chavez)
uses: goiter, hypothyroidism, hypothyroidism, fatigue, obesity, conditions related to the thyroid
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