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Guided

Imagery

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Massage

Therapists

an Introduction with

Sue Burton Hidalgo

Guided Imagery has many studies that support it as having results, here are a few:

Allen Hord, Peter Sebel & colleagues, Emory Universitypatients who listened to imagery audiotapes during surgery (listening even in the NON-WAKING STATE) required less morphine during their recovery than those who didn’t listen

Carole Holden-Lund, Southeast Louisiana University School of Nursingimagery lowers surgical stress and speeds up postsurgical wound healing

Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, Englandpatients who used guided imagery audiotapes during surgery recovered faster and left hospital on an average of one and a half days earlier than other patients

Dr. Nicholas Hall, George Washington University Medical Centersubjects used imagery to increase circulatory white blood cells and levels of thymosin-alpha-1 hormone used by T helper cells

Dr. Frank Lawlis, University of Texasimagery used to increase number of neurofils (debris ingester cells in immune system) in bloodstream

Drs. C. Wayne Smith & John Schnieder, Michigan State Universityneurophils (debris ingester cells in immune system) functioning can be affected in specific ways by imagery)

Dr. Karen Olness, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospitals of Cleveland, OH

children were able, with imagery, to elevate levels of immunoglobulin (indicators of heightened immune function

Cont. Guided Imagery has many studies that support it as having results, here are a few:

Dr. David Spiegal, Stanford Universitystudied long term effects of imagery on middle-aged women who had metastasized breast cancer. These women used simple imagery: imagining themselves floating gently on water, feeling relaxed and peaceful. They lived an average of two times longer than the control group (36.6 months vs 18.9 months) and with less pain and discomfort, fewer mood swings, more optimistic outlook, and greater feeling of control.

Drs. Ikemi and Nakagawa, Yokohama City University School of Medicine in Japan84% of subjects asked to envision poison ivy as harmless eliminated standard histaminic responses to it (itching, redness, swelling, blisters), also the REVERSE - broke into rash when imagining harmless plant to be poison ivy

Drs. Cornelia Kenner and Jeanne Achterberg, University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TXseriously burned patients using imagery experienced less pain and used less medication. Also another study on the orthopedic unit, people who had multiple fractures , imagery alleviated pain and anxiety

Dr. D. H. Schuster, Iowa State Universityimagery reduced shock and increased blood flow in severely injured patients

Jeane Lyles, Vanderbilt University

imagery reduced adverse responses to chemotherapy

Why am I qualified to teach?Trained to an advanced level as a hypnotherapist by internationally recognized people such as:

Robert Dick, MD psychiatry Harvard University and teacher at University of North Carolina

Vann Joines, PhD, internationally recognized trainer and author in Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis

Tom Kenyon, MA, internationally recognized for Acoustic Brain Research, Sound Healer extraordinare, Breathwork Specialist, NLP & superlearning instructor

Carolyn Deal, PhD, worldwide top trainer for Silva Mind Method, advanced Hypnotherapy Trainer

Thomas Bandler, PhD, cofounder of Neurolinguistic Programing

and many more….

I have taught Meditation actively since 1980 and am the author of the online course https://suehidalgo.thinkific.com/courses/the-art-of-meditation

I teach hypnotherapy and have an active practice using NLP, hypnosis, and my infamous “spidey senses” for my own energy healing school here in Metro Detroit. Like me on FB: https://www.facebook.com/sue.hidalgo Among my many skills, I’m a LMT.

What imagery is and why it works

The physical tissues of our body cannot be separated from our emotions. Thebody understands and reacts to the perceptions and sensory input automatically.Our muscles are geared to be responsive to emotional judgments, an example:this is dangerous; run! As bodyworkers we are familiar with the physical musclesof the body and aware that the muscles hold emotions. Touch is possibly themost powerful accompaniment for increasing the effectiveness of imagery!

For physical and emotional well-being to happen deeply, imagery needs to beexperienced in the body rather than floating out away from the body. I amsure you are aware that abused persons need a lot of respect as you touch. Ourbody is our link to our aliveness, so bodywork while doing emotional work isvery powerful! Our cells are 100% alive, and we can keep them that way by beingalive in our attitudes. Just saying we are something doesn’t work unless we cancome to build sensation to support what we are saying.

When we remember or anticipate we do so with our whole body. What themind/body believes to be true creates physiological responses - when we read arecipe we can salivate. Images in the mind may not elicit as intense impact on thebody that ‘real’ events do, yet they do elicit the same responses. For example:when we remember the feeling of embracing a loved one, then thinking on thisour face can flush, our pulse can quicken, and our hormones energize. Realmemories or imagined events, our body still has a response in the language ofchemistry and biological processes. These memories are “body-bound”,hardwired in at a below conscious level. As we become aware of what isbeneath our awareness we can make new decisions about how to respond/reactand can relax.

We all have said, “I don’t know why I reacted like that!” Our bodies sweat or tremble or become excessively angry or afraid attimes when it seems unreasonable to do so. Even after the original event is seemingly long forgotten our body has reactionsto current events that it pairs, unconsciously, to the original event. Sometimes the only way we are conscious of theserepressed emotions is body tension or the increasing anxiety or depression or weakened or malformed since of personalidentity. The releasing of these memories is called defusing or processing or becoming at cause (able to be the master of ourcause and effect). This workshop is designed to point you toward developing some “talking skills” for working with the client’ssensory input and the way it is held in the muscles.

What imagery is and why it works cont.Imagery is the language of our body, the immediate language of sensation and perception.Imagery includes all of the body’s 5 sensory input modalities - sights, sounds, smells,tastes & feelings. Imagery also includes our perceptions (our judgements) about ourphysical sensory input.

Imagery may not work for everyone, but it works for more than we would think. It also isnot predictable who it will work for. A hint on who imagery works well for are usuallypeople who have vivid daydreams and can become extremely absorbed in a task (forexample: reading or driving). Imagery is shown to reduce symptoms, engender hope,optimism, peace of mind and to combat illness, isolation, fear, depression, and anxiety.

In therapy the literal truth of a remembered event is less an issue than the person’sreaction to it. What counts to most therapists is the use to which the client puts thesememories, perceptions and emotions. Dr. Richard P. Kluft, director of theDissociative Disorders Program at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospitalexplains, “All types of memory (whether retrieved under hypnosis or not)can contain a degree of inaccuracy, because all memory is a reconstructiveprocess. ...accuracy varies from individual to individual.”

Imagery works with relaxed states of consciousness, alpha states and theta states.During “altered states” our body heals quicker, we learn better, and become morewilling to change and grow. Altered states are mental, physical, and emotional timesof greater focus of our attention, also called being in the zone or in the flow.We are all in and out of altered states all day long. An example is a diver poised on the diving board, focusing on feeling andenvisioning the dive they are about to make, seeing the end perfection of performance, relaxed yet wholly intent. The diveris practicing and important principle of guided imagery, behaving as if we are a sense of mastery over what is to happen touse, we are in control. Being in control, centered within our self, is a very powerful part of self confidence, self-esteem andpositive personal boundaries. A sense of mastery over our lives can normalize one of our most basic of vital signs, bloodpressure. Studies at Western Electric showed that when workers felt they had some say about their jobs absenteeismdropped, productivity increased, and there was a decrease in on the job accidents.

What imagery is and why it works

Guided Imagery can be a potent adjunct to the healing process; more and more medically based research is proving itseffectiveness. A myomassologist who can offer a little guided imagery with the bodywork session has a psycho/spiritualcutting edge that can mark them above other good “technical” bodyworkers.

However, we are not talk therapists. Keeping in mind the wisdom of referring to professional psychotherapists orhypnotherapists, a great deal of assistance can still be offered during a body work session.

Clients usually come to a myomassology session with a couple of agendas for ending theirsuffering:

1. therapeutic bodywork to help with physiological misfunctions,

2. emotional, physical, mental or spiritual relaxation - the easement of tensions andincreasing of positive energies. Both these agendas can be well served with guidedimagery.

Touch is possibly the most powerful accompaniment for increasing the effectiveness of imagery! For physical and emotionalwell-being to happen deeply, imagery needs to be experienced in the body rather than floating out away from the body.Getting into our head is called ideation. REAL change happens with physical level sensations.

Myomassologists know the body holds vivid imagery within its tissues! Cold sensations can be trauma about to open andrelease; sensations of heat are release of trauma.

Our bodies are alive with feelings, some expressed, some repressed. Our muscles and organs hold all these emotions. There are areas of the body devoted to Fear, Anger, Sadness… Everything we experience is experienced somewhere in our body.

We store, access and create thoughts and memories with our 5 senses and our conclusions about those inputs. We can change our reactions by pairing new senses, new conclusions, to what we sense. As myomassologists, while we are working we can help that re-organizing and recreating positive input.

Meditation and self hypnosis are very alike in their processes. Both work with parts of our consciousness being contacted and observed as well as technique processes changing input.

Guided Imagery works with imagery, yet also uses input for all the 5 senses, smells, tastes, touch and sound.

“the Spirit is the Master, imagination the tool,

and the body the plastic material.

The power of imagination is a great factor in

medicine. It may produce illnesses in man and in

animals, and it may cure them. Ills of the body may be

cured by physical remedies or by the power

of the Spirit acting through the Soul.”

Paracelsus1493-1541, Father of Modern Medicine

We change our conclusions about our experiences via working with our subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is immature, very much under 10 years old. Our conscious mind is (hopefully) the mature agent of change. Our superconscious mind can be a powerful ally, a guide.

Our nervous system emits frequencies, anywhere nerves are in the body. However, these frequencies are primarily recognized and mapped as waves of our brain: brainwave patterns.

The slowest pattern is manifested by adults while they are asleep (and not dreaming). This is a primary level of consciousness of infants through age two.

An infant is born with a primaryand slow brainwave pattern, andas they age, they grow into fasterpatterns as different areas of thebrain develop and become active.Adults manifest all of thesebrainwave types, but they move inand out of them throughout theday and night. Changes in levels ofconsciousness cause observablechanges in the patterns of thebrainwaves produced.

The next level of consciousness indescending speed is the Thetastate, experienced by adults justbefore falling asleep and waking,and while doing very repetitive,rhythmic tasks. But oddly, this isalso the state of consciousnessthat is present during physical orpsychological threat, a deeplyemotional state that is concernedwith survival and is associated withpremonition and vigilance.

Theta is also the primary level ofconsciousness of children betweenthe ages of two and six years.

The brainwave pattern generated by a person who is thinking rationally, evaluating information to see if it is trustworthy is the primary brainwave state of the fully awake adult. Children do not think analytically until they are near the age of twelve, so they do not generate these types of brainwaves.

Slower brainwaves also occur duringconsciousness for the adult,experienced during relaxation,prayer, and while doing tasks ofhabit that do not require ourdeliberate attention. It is the idealstate for hypnosis as well, and it isthe primary level of consciousnessfor children between the ages of 6to 12 years. The Alpha state can betriggered without our awarenesswhich makes us vulnerable tomanipulation and post-hypnoticsuggestion.

Many factors can be used by manipulators to slow down our level of alertness and our waking brainwavepatterns in order to influence us to accept their ideas. Our body will also adapt to match and mirror frequenciesof light and sound in our environment, and this affects not only our breathing and pulse which will respond tosuch rhythms, but our brainwaves will also speed up and slow down in response, a phenomenon calledbrainwave entrainment. Deep, diaphragmatic breathing and raising our eyes to 30 degrees to look upward willalso cause our brainwaves to slow down, an purely physical response but ones that we encounter throughoutthe day. I remind the reader to learn more about these previously explored topics by clicking on the embeddedlinks if they are unfamiliar with the material. Children from the ages of approximately ages 6 to 12 yearsgenerate these patterns while they are awake.

Step 1: Over a couple of days, work out a singular goal

Step 2: Make it clear enough for your ‘inner child’ to understand

Step 3: Pair it with highly charged emotional energy

Getting Results• The length of time that a visualization needs to create change within the body can be a short as

one session, or may take more steady repetition to overcome ingrained, often subconscious, thought programming. Research shows that some illnesses respond to 3 times a day for 21 days on and 7 days off.

• Body posture for imaging is best done sitting upright in a chair, but relaxing in bed or an overstuffed chair is okay, too. Sitting or standing or walking, the major point is putting the mind on an outcome and returning the mind to the outcome when the mind wanders.

Another helpful tool in creating imagery that tends to work more fully is breathing in a fuller, more relaxed breath for a minute or so as preparation for the imaging session. Breathing helps to quiet the body and mind.

There are four qualities that help create a healing state of mind:

• 1) intention - willpower, giving the will a direction to focus on

• 2) quieting - external environment so you can focus, and internal quieting such as relaxation

• 3) cleansing - “cleaning up our act”, willingness to be in a state of integrity with self and others

• 4) changing - willingness to change, willingness to “let go” and “let God”, releasing efforting.

Getting Results cont.

By the way, it’s okay for it to take more than one session for you or the client to ‘get it’! The first time you work together in imagery may be just to get comfortable in exploring the technique rather than expecting impressive results. It is okay if at any point in your work with a client you or they feel uncomfortable with these techniques to drop them as part of your session work.

If you become ‘activated’ by your client’s emotions, put your breath and awareness into it and breath gently to release your attachment. It is okay to refer your client to a licensed psychotherapist, and probably is preferable, if the processing work becomes more than an adjunct to your bodywork for them.

You really don’t have to be a superhero, and it is probably best if you let go of your need to heal others.

Until you have some considerable experience applying the ideas you’ve learned in this workshop and in reading the books in the bibliography, please work with people who can be responsible for their own choices, the ‘healthy well’. I tease, yet I mean it, that I only work with ambulatory neurotics –which is most of us!

Getting Results cont.In depth Imagery sessions include several parts:

InductionAn induction means creating a state of relaxed mind, possibly even trance (a state of focused concentration in which extraneous details that are ordinarily on the edge of consciousness are even further removed, such as not hearing the doorbell ring when reading a good book). Induction is a part of hypnosis, the first technique used by Sigmund Freud to access the unconscious mind of his patients. Induction is created in a wide variety of ways, usually with concentration and deep-relaxation techniques. The client may be asked to focus on breathing light into their body, imagine their body floating or on astairway moving up or down, floating in water, etc. In the examples of imagery meditations in the following pages you will see some of the methods.

Goals of the SessionGoals of the session are the actual body of the session, and are set with the client before the session begins. I am teaching 8categories of imagery content with the idea that you will use one of these formats as a body of the session.

Grounding the SessionGrounding the session involves summarizing the body of the session (the goals) at the end of the session, affirming those goals as met.

Return to Normal ConsciousnessThen the client is reminded to focus on their breathing and the simple movements of their body by stretching and returning their awareness to the treatment room.

On the following page is a script for Self Confidence. Let’s experience it first, then go back and find these parts.

Self-Confidence - Sue Hidalgo

Self confidence issues are often grounded in our grief about past performance we saw as ‘failures’, our fear that we will fail again, our guilt that weare ‘imperfect’, ‘incapable’. We become tight and try too hard rather than just relaxing and doing our best.

“Begin by focusing on your breath. Take full breaths, allowing yourself to breath in slowly, hold the breath for a count or two, then breath out fullyand slowly.

Imagine yourself with a large, radiant ball of light below your body. The ball of light is bigger than your entire body. You can imagine the warmth andcomfort of the ball of light as it begins to ascend into your body. Like a sponge soaks up water, your body soaks up the light. Imagine the light beingdrawn up into your calves as you breathe in. Then, with the breath, draw the light up into your knees, your thighs, and into your pelvis. As the lightcomes upward, its warmth allows your muscles to relax. The light soaks upwards into your solar plexus, and your emotions relax, as your very beingis strengthened. The light flows into your chest, and overflows into your arms. Light flows freely from your fingers, making your arms radiant, strong,able to give good and receive good. The light flows up into your throat, freeing up your powerful ability to speak. Your mouth and tongue feelrelaxed, free. The light flows into your face, your nose, your ears, your eyes. All are filled with flowing light, allowing you to see, to sense, to know, allwith more assurance, more confidence. As the light fills your brain, you become able to think clearly, definitively. As you bask in the light, yourstrength, your confidence, grows, until you glow even more brilliantly.

The light represents your Able Self, your clear-eyed ability to see and know and take actions on good choices that support you and the world aroundyou. Feel yourself relaxed. Know you are able to take the perfect amount of time you need, no more, no less, to be able to make clear decisions.Sensing your body, you can feel a difference in your body, perhaps in your chest, your head, your throat, your posture, as you imagine being able totake the time to make a sound decision. Imagine that you take a stand, or take an action, and how you feel in your body as you confidently move intoaction. Each and every time you give yourself permission to know you are able to choose wisely and well, with clear deliberation and incisive action,the light within you glows, and all is well.

Return your attention to your breathing, stretch your arms and legs, and return your awareness to present time sensations such as the lighting in thisroom, the weight of your body, the warmth or coolness of the room.”

You can gain verbal inventory from the client to choose imagery content. As you work on a problematic area of your client’s body the client can be encouraged to say what they see, feel, smell, taste, remember ... this will help with building imagery content for a simple, quick session at that site or for more in-depth imagery in their next session. In your case notes jot down some of the client’s descriptions and begin to build an imagery processing style profile. Here are some examples of sensory words that are familiar to bodyworkers: tight, congested, sore, heavy, weary, dense, open, comfortable, lighter, soft, spacious, easy, lengthening.

What is an imagery processing style?

• We all have five normal senses: taste, smell, hearing, touch, and vision. When we use our mind we are ‘registering’ in one of these senses, and usually one is our primary. Finding your style of imagery processing is simple. Everyone fantasizes andimagines. A simple example is the thinking about what we should have said in an argument. Another example is the inner rehearsing of how we’re going to do something, such as say the right thing to that cutie we met yesterday. Allow yourself tothink, for a moment, and see if you are hearing the rehearsal, seeing the cutie, or feeling feelings. What is your processing style?

• Imagery needs to use words that use multiple senses: smell the smells (salt-air, strong pine needles, pungent grass, breathing in the warm air, breathing in the crisp air), hear the sounds (surge of the pounding waves, wind rustling through the leaves,bird song bursting with joy), taste (lemons, coffee, sweat, sweetness), touch (feel the air brushing against your skin, the softfeeling of fabric against your arms or legs, the ground firmly supporting your every footstep, the cozy warmth of the sun or thefireplace or the blanket), feelings (remembering the love of someone from the past or present - how good that love feels going into your heart, love you have felt for another, nourishing moments). Use multiple sensory words.

• Maybe you could write in some other similar words you have said or heard from your own sessions.

Getting Results cont.

People process nonverbally before they answer verbally. It’s instinctive, automatic.Here are some generalizations, clues to communication preferences:

• Visual people breathe higher in their chest and their voices are higher. When asked a question they will probably look upwards to sort. They may have a paling of skin color, or tight, high shoulders and a tense abdomen.

• Auditory types almost never breath when they talk, when they do breath it is more even breathing with the whole chest. When asked a question they will probably look to either side or down and to their left to sort. Their voice tempo may be even,melodic, resonant and they may talk in a stream. Their skin coloring may be even and their muscular tension may be evenly distributed.

• Kinesthetic people pause when they talk. Their voices are deeper and they breath deeper, low into the stomach. When asked a question they will probably look down and to their right to sort, and they may even chronically hold their head below the horizontal and tilted to the right. Their skin coloring may increase and have flushed coloring. Their muscular tension may seem relaxed, but with sudden, abrupt movements.

• About 5% of people are reversed and consistently look in opposite directions.

Short Scripts are as effective as long.

Here are some successful samples of

Scripts for your reflection.

Your massage therapy clients will most likely be supine or prone on a massage table. This is most relaxing and receptive for the nervous system.

If they or you are sitting, this posture will be best. Tilting the chin upwards or downwards too much cuts off oxygen and encourages sleepiness.

Eyes can be open or closed, but if open, keeping them at “half mast” helps to shut visual input that encourages mental chatter.

Dropping the Burden/Releasing Pain - Sue Hidalgo

“While working with your client in a tight or painful body area, have them imagine either that: they are holding onto a heavy stone, or that a heavy stone is on the tight body area. Ask them to really imagine that they can feel this weight, that they can intensify the heaviness, the tension. You may even have your client tighten up surrounding body areas, perhaps inviting the client to squeeze their whole body into a tight knot. Then, when they are ready, have the client take a deep breath in, and let go with a deep, exploding sigh, while at the same time imagining the stone cracks and crumbles into a powder that is blown away with each successive breath, allowing their tissues to become more and more relaxed.”

(An alternate visualization is to throw the stone away, or to allow it to roll off their body.)

The process can work: super simple, less than a few minutes,easy to create and carry out scripts.

Energic ImageryEnergic imagery focuses on unblocking fluid energy. Good examples are seeing the vital energy, also called chi, moving throughthe body, working on the energy centers of the human energy field - the chakras, seeing our body as it truly is - waves andparticles in motion, vibrations moving easily and compatible with one another. Light and color and sound are effective inhelping the human energy field to work properly. Pulling energy up from the earth, through the soles of our feet, seeing theEarth as an unlimited supply of vibrating, free-flowing energy similar to the minerals and chemical elements of our physicalbody, inhaling this energy up and drawing it up through our body with the inhale, with the exhale allowing the tingling energyto flow and disperse into our organs, bones, nerves, and muscles.

Some healers call the physical body the “heavy” body and that which animates the physical as the awareness or light body. Theheavy body registers sensations. The light body (within and around the heavy body) experiences sensations and addsinterpretation or value. When the breath of life, sacred breath, inner spirit stops, then the light body floats free of thephysical/heavy body. The heavy body is no longer animated and returns to dust.

Egyptian Healing–Gerald Epstein, “Healing Visualizations”

“Close your eyes and breathe out three times. Then, imagine yourself standing in a large open field of green grass. See yourself stretching up toward the bright golden sun in a cloudless blue sky. See your arms becoming very long, stretching, palms up, toward the sun. The sun’s rays come into your palms and circulate through the palms and fingers and beyond the fingertips so that there is a ray beyond each fingertip. If you are right-handed, at the end of each ray of the fingers of your right hand see a complete small hand. At the end of each ray of the fingers of your left hand, see an eye. There are five hands and five eyes. If you are left-handed, see the fingers on your left, the eyes on your right.

Now turn these hands and eyes toward your body and use the eyes to see your way through your body, emitting light in or on the area you are investigating so that you can see what you are doing. In the small hands you can use a golden-bristled brush for cleaning, laser-light tubes for healing, golden scalpels for surgery, cans of golden or blue-golden ointment for healing, as well as gold thread for sewing. After finishing your work, come out of your body by the same route as you went in. Any waste materials you took away with the small hands should be thrown away behind you. Hold your hands up toward the sun and let the small hands and eyes retract into your palms to be stored there for future use. Then open your eyes.”

Gerald N. Epstein(born November 6, 1935)

is an American psychiatrist who uses mental imagery and other mental techniques to treat physical and emotional problems. An author and a researcher, he is the founder and director of a mental imagery school for post-graduate mental health professionals, teaching imagery as a tool for healing and a "bridge to the inner world. His work is tested through his own practice and New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

Read Epstein! Great books with simple, clear, effective techniques.

Some researchers believe that metaphoric imagery is more powerful than physiologically correct imagery. Metaphors are symbols and affect the soul and body simultaneously. Metaphors are the language of the soul, going deep into the psyche.

Metaphors allow our own internal imagery a springboard for its own wanderings, its own path to untangling itself. Metaphors can move through resistance to change as they are not seen as commands.

Metaphors are helpful especially when an individual is in a looping pattern of arguing within themselves

River of Life Gerald Epstein, “Healing Visualizations, Creating Health through Imagery”

“A friend of mine was suffering from a bad cold. “I feel awful, Jerry,” he said. “Do you have an imagery exercise that can help me?” This is the exercise I prescribed, which anyone can use to help get over a common cold. The exercise is called The River of Life.

Close your eyes. Breathe out three times to relax yourself. See your eyes becoming clear and very bright. Then see them turning inward, becoming two rivers flowing down from the sinuses into the nasal cavity and throat, their currents taking away all the waste products, soreness, and stuffiness. The Rivers are flowing through your chest and abdomen, into your legs, and coming out as black or gray strands that you see being buried deep in the earth. See your breath coming out as black air and see your waste products emerging from below. Sense the rivers pulsating rhytmically through the body and see light coming from above, filling up the sinuses, nose, and throat, all the tissues becoming pink and healthy.

When you sense both the rhythmic flow and the light filling these cavities, breathe out and open your eyes.

I told my friend to do this exercise every 3 hours for 3 to 5 minutes until his cold cleared up. Two days later, he reported to me that he had done the exercise for one day and promptly recovered.”

Cutting Karmic Strings The Tibetan Figure-8 Sue Hidalgo

The Tibetan mystics are age-old masters at working with subtle energy flows of the human body and aura. Often, they use acombination of meditation and visualization. They know, for example, that in many areas of the human body, energy moves inFigure-8 patterns, which -- no coincidence, I’m sure -- also are Infinity symbols. This can be seen clairvoyantly.

The Tibetans further know about an energic Infinity pattern which forms between two human bodies. Its pattern is an 8 lyinghorizontally, each of its loops touching an individual near the navel or solar plexus. Called a karmic string, this pattern causestwo persons to share each other’s energy fields, probably without conscious awareness.

How Do Karmic Strings Form?

Karmic strings between people are created and released daily. They usually form after conflict which is not immediatelyresolved. These karmic strings can be dissolved spiritually through the energies of grace or forgiveness. When we don’t taketime to live with grace, clarity, and thoughtfulness (and who among us does?), then mounting unresolved conflicts can cause afeeling of being “strangled” by life itself! Decision-making becomes riddled with uncertainty, doubt, or compulsive action.

Reincarnation leads us back to the same circle of people. But by consciously entering a state of forgiveness, even unconditionallove, we release bonds which bind us to one another and to the process of incarnation. Releasing these bonds helps both theone doing the meditation and those who are being released.

Karmic strings can also tie us to earlier versions of ourselves in this lifetime or in previous lifetimes. Inner Child psychologicalwork and similar techniques can help ease unsupportive, conflicted ties within our present incarnation. Strings may also formwith situations or events.

See the visualization exercise which can help you dissolve karmic strings. Because of the nature of the unconscious, it is wise towork with only one person, situation, or incarnation at a time.

Tibetan Figure-8 Visualization

This is an exercise to release karmic strings. To release strings with yourself, simply insert yourself into the visualization in place of the other person.

• First, stir up the unconsciously held energy. Talk or journal or reflect on your relationship with the person you wish to release.

• Now visualize yourself inside one loop of a black figure-8 and the other person in its other loop. You are bound together at your navel areas. The primary string is the Tibetan 8 flow ring, but in your imagination, ask for other images of attachment inother areas of the body to be revealed to you. Often these ties are black, brown, or other darker colors, in the form of chains, ribbons, ropes, or the proverbial “apron strings”. Take your time to locate as many as you can. Do your best to view these connections impartially, without undue emotion.

• With your hands, make motions of pulling the 8 out of yourself, like unplugging an electric cord. Unplug any other attachments as well. Be thorough in dissolving all attachments.

• Now, both with your hands and the power of your mind, draw a fiery blue ring of light around yourself. Draw another separatering of fiery blue around the other person. Blue is an ancient color for spiritual protection in many mythological/religioussystems. In Angelology, fiery blue is associated with the sword of Archangel Michael.

• Then draw a golden Figure-8 between yourself and the other, encompassing the two blue rings. The color gold is associated with compassion, understanding, and love. Across this gold “bridge” imagine the two of you communicating freely and openly, without attachment or dependency. If necessary, see a barrier on the bridge, keeping boundaries.

• As a final step, rethink your association with the other person. Show the unconscious and conscious self how the heavy emotions you associated with that individual have actually dissipated! Work with the visualization as often as it takes to completely dissolve the negative karmic attachments. -S.B.H.

The Gauge - Sue Hidalgo

“While working with your client in a tight or painful body area, have them imagine a gauge or a thermometer. This gauge reads the Negative Energy stored in the area, in the form of tension and pain. Ask them to start with the reading being off the chart, sort of like a cartoon of a gauge, a cartoon of a thermometer “blowing its top.”

Now invite the client to breath gently, allowing their breath and your gentle bodywork to cause the gauge to read a more reasonable and comfortable number. Invite the client to know that they can totally empty out the Negatively Charged Energy, and the muscle to fill with Positive Energy.

Then coach your client to tell you what positive thing they would like to fill the area you are working on with, perhaps flowers, starlight, laughter, someone they love such as their child. Invite the client to notice the difference in their body from replacing Negative Charge with Positive Energy.”

End State Imagery

For specific desired outcomes, holding an image of what you want, imagining yourself already in the condition or circumstances that you wishfor. An example is, for a patient with arthritis seeing/feeling the hands and wrists moving with greater ease and range, picking things up,unscrewing jar tops, opening doors, etc.

Another example is a client who wants to achieve a state of excellence. That client would think of someone who does what they like, orsomething that they like, and would imagine the perfect outcome. They would image themselves being the one doing. Over and over the clientcould add more colorful pieces to their fantasy, until they can feel the block within them dissolving, and until they begin to experiencemovement in their life actions that will lead to the positive ownership of the state of excellence.

The Perfect Performance - Sue Hidalgo

“Make yourself comfortable by noticing the weight and warmth of your body. Relax your body further bytaking a deep, cleansing breath, inhaling as comfortably as you can, pause and then exhale fully. Repeatanother time. Then breath in and send warm energy of the breath to any part of your body that is tenseor sore or tight. Breathing will loosen and release any tensions, and they will cleanse as you exhale. Anyrepetitive thoughts can also be sent out with the breath, allowing your mind to be empty, still, like a clear,calm lake.

Now imagine yourself doing something, whatever activity you have chosen to work with for this exercise.This could be any activity you wish to improve upon, such as playing a sport, dancing, performing yourwork with ease, playing an instrument - anything. See your self doing the activity, utterly absorbed andfocused, so focused you lose all sense of yourself. Notice your posture, your movements, noting any thatyou could improve upon. See, in as much detail as comes easily, doing this activity again, this time withfar greater ease, just doing what you do, freely and easily, flowing in perfect sync. Imagine your bodybeing elegant and graceful, intelligent and easy, while doing this activity. Like a beautiful bird aloft on theback of a wind, a musician in perfect pitch and timing with the music, a dancer becoming the dance, asinger becoming the song.

Holding this moment, breathing it in, kissed by perfection and the joy of being alive and filled with gratitude for just being. Tell yourselfyou will do it this way, effortlessly, every time from now on, and that you will improve in performance, ease, and joy each and everytime!

And so, when you are ready, taking another deep, full breath and exhaling fully, knowing you can come back to this heightened place,this richness of experience, whenever you wish. Allow yourself to come back into the room whenever you are ready, knowing in a deepplace that you are better for this. You stretch your muscles, notice your breath, and open your eyes as you are ready.”

Feeling State Imagery focuses on qualities of being, and is the most basic of imagery forms. An example is the sanctuary site, a special retreat, real or imagined. I believe this is my most used script over the 40 years I have been in practice.

The Sanctuary - Sue Burton-Hidalgo

“Settle into your body more deeply by feeling the rise and fall of your chest as you breathe in and out. ........ Allow yourself tofocus on the sound of your breath as it comes gently in and out of your body. You may even notice that the sound of the breathcoming in is a sound similar to “soooooo...” and the exhale is more of a “hummmm....” Listening to your breath allows you tobecome more relaxed, more easy within yourself physically.

As you relax, you may turn your mind to a memory of a special place, somewhere in nature or indoors, somewhere that alsohelps you feel safe and relaxed. Let’s call this your ‘sanctuary’. The sanctuary may be at the beach, hearing the surge of thewaves, the warmth of the sun, the tangy, salty smell of the salt-sea in the air. Sanctuary may be in the forest, leaning against thesturdy trunk of a tree, smelling the pungent strong smell of pine needles, or the warm smell of moss and leaves. You may evenbe indoors, in your favorite chair, perhaps feeling the warmth from a fireplace with the palms of your hands.

Please allow yourself to focus on the particulars of your special place, your special memories. Allow yourself to smell it. ......Allow yourself to see it. ....... Allow yourself to feel it, the warmth or the coolness.

As you feel reconnected with these special memories, the muscles of your body relax, your inner organs are filled with peace,with clarity, and your are better for these moments of remembering.

Allow yourself to return your attention to the here and now, to this room, bringing with you this heightened ease, peace, and

well being.”

Psychological Imagery

Psychological imagery deals with body centered events such as hope, despair, anger. Psychological events have actual locations inour bodies!

We always get what we want, so if what we are getting now is not what we want consciously, then it is because what we want issubconscious.

Issues stuck in the upper body tend to concern belief systems concerning the right to be who you are.

Issues stuck in the lower body tend to concern belief systems concerning the right to be, to exist.

Hardness and anger tears come out of the right eye, sadness and grief from left eye tears.

Fatigue is the inability to relax into our environment.

Sadness and fear cannot hurt us, but clamping down on these feelings can.

Guilt is resentment turned inwards; it is someone else’s craziness internalized in us. (We might start with forgiving ourself,forgiving them. At the least we could start with letting their disapproval be OK with us.)

Pot suppresses sadness. Food suppresses everything. Alcohol suppresses fear. TV suppresses everything.

We will benefit in our health from learning not to ignore our feelings and to realize that comfort, comforting, and pleasuring ishealthy.

Our cells are 100% alive, we can keep them that way.

“Anger is a major stumbling block to humility. Without humility we can’t be of real service to our fellow humans. Anger is a response of self-absorption and self-inflation can lead to indifference and hatred. Where anger, indifference, and hatred reside, love cannot. Anger often gives rise to desire for revenge and sometimes its enactment. In truth, such responses only fan the flames of anger, keeping it alive. Anger, directed either at yourself or at someone else, in most instances is an overreaction to a situation. Letting it get out of control poses the dangers noted above and propels you into the position of judge and jury.

This does not mean that it is wrong or bad to experience anger. It is not a bad emotion, but one that must be managed. This applies to all emotions, positive and negative. Experience them, but don’t dwell in or on them. Acknowledge their presence and then deal with them. The antidote to anger is forgiveness. Forgiveness is first directed at yourself and then at the one toward whom you are angry.” Epstein

Releasing Anger Sue Hidalgo

“Close your eyes and see yourself sitting inside your anger. Perhaps your anger is centered within your chest, or in your solar plexus, or here in this muscle that is so tight. Anger is a hot thing, and most often destructive. Your body can be called the ‘house’ of your soul. And like a firethat destroys a home, flames licking higher, burning the timbers, destroyingmemories, destroying the home that has sheltered you, anger can harm your body.

Now is the perfect moment to imagine that the heat, the constriction here in yourbody can be released. Take some breaths in, and with the in breaths, imagine a beautiful rain

has come to put out the fire. This soothing rain flows into your muscle (chest, solar plexus),and immediately extinguishes the fire.

Breath out a few times after releasing the anger, and place in the newly vacated space an opposite image, such as sitting in the centerof a rose, or floating on a cloud. Remember, it is best to find your

own images, the ones coming directly from your own experience. Then open your eyes, knowing that the anger is gone.”

Physiological imagery attends to the overall processes within our bodies,for example, vascular constriction that causes headaches. Another example, the cleansing systems of our lungs,renal system, or lymphatics. To work with the lymphatic fluid flowing you need to know the pathways of thelymphatic flow ... the basic dynamics of the body process must be correct. To correct such physiological problemsas allergies, headaches, PMS, high blood pressure we need to know how the body works to have such problemsoccur to begin with. Again, have your client consult their physician, or you or they need to read up in healthencyclopedias that can be found in the bookstores or libraries.

All the types of imagery tend to overlap, physiological will look like psychological and metaphoric at times, andvice versa. Sometimes in describing their physiological pain the client will use metaphors, such as, “My heart feelslike it has been stabbed.” Or “I feel as though I have a brick on my chest.” You would work with the metaphor theclient gives you to help them describe the problem in more detail, then to remove it. All dialogue with the paincan be helpful in moving toward its release. Breathing into the pain as you place your hands on it often helps toalleviate or release it as well. It is suppression, disconnection, isolation and depression that can kill us.

A natural for physiological imagery is the cardiovascular system. The following meditation is designed to even outyour blood pressure and help you maintain a strong heart and healthy, open arteries, along with some imagery fornormalizing blood sugar.

The following imagery is a bit long. It’s a sample of a script you may wish to play for the client to hear rather than for you to say.

You could record scripts for your clients as adjuncts to their session with you.

Cardiovascular Imagery - Sue Hidalgo

“Make yourself comfortable by noticing the weight and warmth of your body. Relax your body further by taking a deep, cleansingbreath, inhaling as comfortably as you can, pause and then exhale fully. Repeat another time. Then breath in and send warm energy ofthe breath to any part of your body that is tense or sore or tight. Breath deep into the belly if you can and breathing out, as fully andcomfortably as possible. Again, sending the warm energy of the breath to any part of your body that is tense or sore or tight, andreleasing the tension with the exhale. As you release and cleanse with your warm breath, you can feel safe and comfortable, relaxed andeasy.

Any repetitive thoughts can also be sent out with the breath, allowing your mind to be empty, still, like a clear, calm lake. And now,gently allowing yourself to turn your attention inward, focusing inside. Notice how your body feels, and then turn your attention toimagining you can sense the subtle movement of your blood your body. Take a few moments to notice your remarkable system ofcirculation, so strong and steady. Maybe you can feel the blood’s warmth, moving all through you. Maybe your blood will sing to you,humming as it moves along through veins and arteries wide and powerful at your center and delicate filigree at their furthermost edges.

Your cardiovascular system has its own intelligence. It has a wonderful ability, to repair and heal everything it touches. Your blood is likea rich, gentle river, flowing along through clean, strong pipes. As it fluidly moves through your body, it brings rich supplies of nutrients.The flow of the blood expands the veins where that is needed, softening the walls of the arteries where that is needed. It strengthensthe arteries’ weaker areas, if there are any. The blood knows exactly what is needed, and where it is needed. Any debris, such as fattybuildup or crusty spots, are swept along, turning into tiny, tiny dots that will be safely and easily carried along for proper disposal.

This steady, gentle river feeds the tissues along its banks. It knows how much nutrients and sugars are needed to seep into thesurrounding tissues. The tissues soak up the nutrients and become strong. New vitality, joyful and purposeful, flows into the tissues.Allow yourself to imagine that all through your body the penetrating warmth and power of this gentle, strong river of blood, is workingeasily, properly.

And so, when you are ready, taking another deep, full breath and exhaling fully, knowing that the innate intelligence of your body, whichknows what to do, and how to heal, is always working fully and capably for you.

Allow yourself to come back into the room whenever you are ready, knowing in a deep place that you are better for this. You stretchyour muscles, notice your breath, and open your eyes as you are ready.”

Spiritual Imagery

An Integral Yoga (Sri Aurobindo) meditation is connecting with the silent Self, Calling down the Silence. In this meditation, onewould start with focusing inward on the thought, “I open up to the silence.”

Another focus is called ‘Practicing the Presence’. It is based on the belief that the Source has an infinite capacity to give. Thequestion for the time of meditation is , “What is my capacity to receive my good?” Then the process is one of opening to theenergy that the Divine has to offer.

The Inner Physician Sue Hidalgo

“Make yourself comfortable by noticing the weight and warmth of your body. Relax your body further by taking a deep, cleansingbreath, inhaling as comfortably as you can, pause and then exhale fully. Repeat another time. Then breath in and send warm energyof the breath to any part of your body that is tense or sore or tight. Breathing will loosen and release any tensions, and they willcleanse as you exhale. Any repetitive thoughts can also be sent out with the breath, allowing your mind to be peaceful.

Now allow your mind to focus within your body. Each and every cell of your body has a type of ‘mind’, an intelligence that is innate.A blood cell knows what it is and what its job is, just as nerves know and just as bone material knows. All these processes happenautomatically, beneath the surface of our conscious mind, our bodies are constantly rebuilding, renewing, and going on about theirown paths whether we are asleep or aware. Let’s imagine, though, that we CAN become aware, that we can work with oursubconscious ‘Self’, to learn from it, to guide it via the promptings of our awaken mind and heart, which we can call our‘Superconscious’ or ‘Soul’. Let’s imagine that our ‘Superconscious is a wise Physician, the wisest, kindest, and most capable ofhelpers. Imagine that you can see and describe this wise ‘Inner Physician’. Take a few moments to explore connecting, knowing thishelper. (If you cannot see anyone, use a familiar figure such as Jesus or Buddha. The messenger is symbolic anyway, it is themessage that is the focus here.) Perhaps you will sense a presence, or hear that small, still voice within which IS the voice of your‘Superconscious’. When you have contact, phrase your question in simple, clear terms.

A question might be, “Inner Physician, please tell me about this recurrent hamstring tension?” Then allow yourself to receiveimpressions, which you can later piece together more logically. Right now your only focus is to receive, not to understand or sort.

Do not be discouraged if you do not receive an answer immediately. If your rational, conscious mind is too active, then the answermay come later as you are resting or sleeping.”

SPECIFIC FOR OUR INDUSTRY

Bodyworkers have natural opportunity for using imagery with their clientele. And this will make your hands/joints very happy!

Emotions and Muscles Sue Hidalgo

We know that muscles move or lock in response to consciously orunconsciously held emotional qualities. For example, brachioradialishelps us to “hold on” to something we have “grasped”. We feel equal tothe task, and feel that the world around us is cooperative, and thismuscle that “grasps” functions well. When we feel that we may beconquered if we cannot “hold on” then we also may feel grief or guiltover our inability to “hold on”.

On the legal-size page that is an extra handout for this class is a list ofmuscles, their associated meridians, and emotional/behavioral key wordsassociated with those muscles. The emotional/behavioral correlationscome from the in--depth work of the originators of the One Brain system.Here is an example... Psoas muscle, associated with the kidney meridianand the emotional/behavioral correlations of being aware and willingversus responding with hysterical anger.

Touch the origin and insertion of your client’s muscle and say to them,“allow your mind to free associate, to drift into the circumstances in yourlife now or in your past, or into your future concerns ... allow yourself toreceive, acknowledge, and release thoughts of __emotional/behavioralcorrelations from the One Brain list , that may be held in this muscle.Please give yourself permission to relax, to breathe evenly in and fullyout, releasing these memories or concerns, and to allow this muscle tobe perfectly toned, ready to respond or ready to relax.”

Touching the origin and insertion of the muscles is the induction, as is thestatement about free association. The goals of the visualization sessionare looking for the emotional/behavioral correlations. The grounding ofthe session is breathing evenly in and out and allowing the muscle to beperfectly toned.

As a practitioner of massage, you have a clueWhich muscles are activated in your clientele.

Acupuncture Meridiansare associated with specific Organs, with specific emotions. Here’s a little something about that!

Our body is the repository of our experiences. Our muscles hold emotions and are tied to actions. The capacity of “holding on” , our capacity to grasp and retain, is stored in the forearms.

Light touch, like holding a butterfly, allows memories to surface, whereas deep touch can override our capacity to remember.

Information listed on the next page is from Touch for Health and OneBrain methods, both classes taught at Irene’s MyomassolgyInstitute by Irene.

The technique is to lightly touch, while speaking the words on the list:

belly of the muscle the origin and insertion the muscle and its associated organ the muscle and a specific point on the meridian the muscle and ‘run’ the meridian slowly from

it’s beginning to ending points.

What Words?OneBrain’s

Behavioral BarometerA professional OneBrain

session begins with identifying a behavior that

needs transforming.

These behaviors, held in the musculature, nerves, organs

and mind, are literally defused by speaking the

emotional action /behavior while

new behaviors are infused by speaking the emotional action/behavior.

MUSCLES, MERIDIANS, EMOTIONS Three-In-One, Inc., from their ONE BRAIN system

Abdominis rectus ....................Small Intestine ......... Refreshed and willing vs. fiery and angryAbdominis oblique ............... ..Small Intestine .......... Reliable and equal vs. self-punishing and grief and guiltAbdominals, lower ..................Small Intestine ......... Motivated and assured vs. letdown and fearful of lossAbdominis transverse .............Small Intestine .......... Sincere and equal vs. defeated and grief and guiltAdductors ................................Pericardium .............. Adaptable, full of acceptance vs. annoyed and antagonisticBrachioradialis ........................Stomach .................... Cooperative as an equal vs. conquered and fearfulCoracobrachialis ......................Lung …………………….... Choosing to and acceptance vs. attacked and antagonismDeltoid anterior ......................GallBladder ………...... Attractive and enthusiastic vs. frustrated and hostileDeltoid middle .......................Lung ............................ Congruent and attuned vs. immobilized and indifferentFascia lata ...............................Large Intestine ........... Fascinated interest vs. hurt resentmentGastrocnemius....................... Triple Warmer ............ Prepared and willing vs. overwrought angerGluteus maximus................... Pericardium ............... Assurance and considered vs. Fear of loss and overlookedGluteus minimis .................... Pericardium ............... Reliable and equal vs. self-punishing grief and guiltGluteus medius...................... Pericardium ............... In balance and attunement vs. rigid indifferenceGracilis................................... Triple Warmer ............. Adaptable and acceptance vs. annoyed antagonismHamstrings lateral................. Large Intestine ............. Choosing to and Acceptance vs. attacked antagonismIliacus..................................... Kidney .......................... Delighted and enthusiasm vs. deprived and hostilityInfraspinatus.......................... Triple Warmer .............. Equality and productive vs. ruined and grief and guiltLatissimus dorsi .....................Spleen ........................... Essential and interest vs. dumb and resentmentLevator scapulae.................... Stomach ..................... Optimistic acceptance vs. questioned and antagonismNeck Flexors.......................... Stomach ..................... Attractive and enthusiasm vs. frustrated hostilityNeck extensors posterior...... Stomach ……………....... Delighted enthusiasm vs. deprived hostilityOpponens pollicis ..................Spleen ....................... Purposeful equality vs. unacceptable grief and guiltPectineus............................... Pericardium ………….... Oneness fulfilled vs. separation morbidPectoralis major clavicular.... Stomach ..................... Gentle attunement vs. disconnected indifference

MUSCLES, MERIDIANS, EMOTIONS cont.

Peroneus............................... Bladder ...................... Receptive willing vs. incensed angerPiriformis ...............................Pericardium ………...... Acceptance, acceptable vs. burdened antagonismPopliteus ................................Gallbladder ............... Choosing to and acceptance vs. attacked antagonismPsoas ......................................Kidney ....................... Aware willing vs. hysterical angerQuadratus lumborum............. Liver ........................ Admirable enthusiasm vs. put-upon hostilityQuadriceps .............................Small Intestine .........Tuned-in interest vs. embarrassed resentmentRhomboids............................. Liver ......................... Bold assurance vs. disappointed fear of lossSacrospinalis upper................ Bladder .................... Choosing to and acceptance vs. attacked antagonismSacrospinalis lower................ Bladder .................... Choosing to and acceptance vs. attacked antagonismSartorius................................ Triple Warmer .......... Calm oneness vs. unacceptable separationSerratus anterior ....................Lung ........................ Needed and interest vs. wounded resentmentSoleus.................................... Triple Warmer .......... Choosing to and acceptance vs. attacked antagonismSubclavius.............................. Heart ....................... Choice vs no choiceSubscapularis......................... Heart ....................... Attunement and in tune with vs. pessimistic indifferenceSupraspinatus ........................Central .................... Unified oneness vs. separation unimportantTeres Major............................ Governing ............... Motivated assurance vs. letdown fear of lossTeres Minor ............................Triple Warmer …...... At-one-ment and oneness vs. deserted separationTibial anterior .........................Bladder …………….... Choosing to and acceptance vs. attacked antagonismTibial posterior ......................Bladder .................... Adaptable acceptance vs. annoyed antagonismTrapezius middle.................... Spleen .................... Essential interest vs. dumb resentmentTrapezius upper...................... Kidney .................... Sincere equality vs. defeated grief and guiltTrapezius lower .....................Spleen ..................... Unified oneness vs. unimportant separationTriceps ....................................Spleen .................... At-one-ment and oneness vs. deserted separation

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