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imagery
a sight for sore eyes
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Let yourself settle into the deepest layers of your imagination and as you do so, allow yourself to go backwards through time. To a place that perhaps you haven't thought about in quite some time. A place where you could always feel safe and secure and in charge of everything. Feel the sigh of relief ripple through your body as you enter this haven once again. Take a moment to enjoy the security and the serenity that it brings. Now in this place, there is a flashlight. One that you know for sure that you have never seen there before. Feel yourself reach out to pick it up, wondering all the time at its strange design. This flashlight has two lenses, each faced with a different colored glass. One lens is fixed up to shine blue light and the other, made so that it will shine with red. In your curiosity, an unusual idea strikes you suddenly and because you feel so safe, you never hesitate, but put it directly into play. One, (or Is it both?) of your eyes have bothered you in recent time. The white part itching perhaps and burning and also red to look upon. So you place the red lens of the flashlight before the point of pain and turn it on. Savoring, in an odd way, the sudden intensification of sensation, secure in your assurance that it will do no harm. The itching burn flashes to a peak and disappears, leaving nothing but the warmth of the red light shining upon your eye. Without thinking, you know for certain what to do and you turn off one light and turn on the other, bathing that eye now in a beam of blue. It takes but a moment and now that eye feels wonderful and you feel clever for having thought of such a great use for this odd light. At this time, it is worth your while to decide if the other eye could benefit from such a treatment too. Take all the time you need to make that choice and carry it out if necessary, then allow yourself another moment of satisfaction. Then allow your eyes to slowly open once again.
(Chavez)
uses: blepharitis, conjunctivitis
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