Positive Imagination and Affirmations for Breathing and Health - Part 2 |
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"Healing Imagery" |
Editorial Note: Positive Imagination for Breathing and Health has two parts: Part-1"Relaxation for the Body, Breath and Mind" and Part-2 the "Healing Imagery." You can do either one or both parts. If you choose both parts, you may do them as two sessions at different times of the day or in continuation, Part-A followed by Part-B.
I believe we should exercise positive imagination and self-affirmation just as we should perform mental and physical exercises on a daily basis. Such mind-body exercises strengthen our hope and will power and keep us in a state of preparedness for positive health actions. I invite you to a few such healing images, positive beliefs and self-affirmations.
Equipment Needed
Have a cassette recorder or any other type of recording device on which you can record this script or something along the lines of this script in your own voice. You can change any words, ideas or images of this script to the ones that you prefer or feel more natural to you. In fact you can re-write the whole script in your own style and format. As you record your script, play soft and soothing music of your choice in the background.
Software Needed
1. Belief in yourself and in the power of your mind.
2. Inner knowing that entire body is represented in the mind and mind is present through out the body.
3. Right feelings and emotions to correspond with the words in the script. Remember the saying, "Put your money (or your heart) where your mouth is?"
4. Faith in your action. Increase the potency of the mind-body medicine by placing your faith in the action you are about to take. Even though the body tells otherwise, imagine positive outcomes for yourself any way.
5. Mind over matter. By resolving to place your mind over your own matter, it might just be possible for you to imagine that positive changes have already occurred even though you might be experiencing discomforting symptoms that very moment.
Caution: This exercise invites you to relax and pay relaxed attention to breathing. If physical and mental relaxation or bringing attention to your own breathing makes you uncomfortable, you may skip this exercise. If any part of this script upsets you or creates a negative feeling in you any way, please delete that portion and use the rest.
Position: Make yourself as comfortable as you possibly can in a sitting or lying down position.
Body Scan--Putting the Mind into the body
Scan and relax one body part at a time and silently say to yourself the name of the body part just scanned
o Eyes, ears, nose, cheeks, lips, inside mouth, palate, throat and guts, silently saying "face."
o Right arm and hand silently saying "right arm"
o Left arm and hand saying "left arm"
o Scan shoulders, neck and head "shoulders, neck and head"
o Entire right side of the body "right body"
o Entire left side of the body "left body"
o Scan the lower body "lower body"
o The upper body "upper body"
o Scan the entire body "whole body"
Joint Breathing: Putting the breath and the mind into the body
Every time inhale "as if" inhaling through the crown of your head.
Exhale "as if" through the joint specified, and so on.
Inhale through the crown and Exhale as if through the toes
Inhale crown-exhale toes 1
Inhale crown-exhale toes 2
Inhale crown-exhale toes-3
Exhale as if through the ankle joints
Inhale crown-exhale ankles 1
Inhale crown-exhale ankles 2
Inhale crown-exhale ankles-3
Exhale as if through the knees
Inhale crown-exhale knees 1
Inhale crown-exhale knees 2
Inhale crown-exhale knees-3
Exhale through the hip joints
Inhale crown-exhale hips 1
Inhale crown-exhale hips 2
Inhale crown-exhale hips-3
Exhale as if through the pelvis and perineum
Inhale crown-exhale pelvis 1
Inhale crown-exhale pelvis 2
Inhale crown-exhale pelvis 3
Exhale as if through the solar plexus and lumbar area
Inhale crown-exhale solar plexus 1
Inhale crown-exhale solar plexus 2
Inhale crown-exhale solar plexus-3)
Exhale as if through the heart area
Inhale crown-exhale heart 1
Inhale crown-exhale heart 2
Inhale crown-exhale heart-3
Exhale as if through the pit of the throat
Inhale crown-exhale throat 1
Inhale crown-exhale throat 2
Inhale crown-exhale throat-3
Exhale as if through the center of the eyebrows
Inhale crown-exhale center of the eyebrows 1
Inhale crown-exhale center of the eyebrows 2
Inhale crown-exhale center of the eyebrows-3
Back to exhaling as if through the toes!
Inhale crown-exhale toes 1
Inhale crown-exhale toes 2
Inhale crown-exhale toes-3
Inhale crown-exhale toes 4
Inhale crown-exhale toes 5
Inhale….and exhale through the left side of the body
Inhale…and exhale through the right side of the body
Inhale…and exhale through the center of the body
Inhale….and exhale through the upper body
Inhale…and exhale through the lower body
Inhale….and exhale through the outer side of the body
Inhale….exhale through the inside of the body
My breath lengthens vertically
My breath expands horizontally
Whole body breathes!
Feeling the entire body altogether
iny, tiny pores on the entire skin of the body are relaxed and opened up.
Pores of the skin are breathing in and out
Whole body is pulsating in…and out.
Whole body breathes in.
Whole body breathes out
Inhale body lengthens
Exhale body relaxes
Inhale…Exhale 1
Inhale…Exhale 2
Inhale…Exhale 3
Inhale…Exhale 4
Inhale…Exhale 5
Soft and relaxed side-ribs breathing
Inhaling side ribs lift and expand
Exhaling side ribs relax
Gentle, soft, slow and rhythmic breathing.
Soft and relaxed abdominal breathing
Each time I inhale, my diaphragm lowers and gently presses down my liver, stomach and intestines.
In mind's eye, my LIVER is green.
Inhaling, liver becomes shinier and brighter with healthy green.
Breathing out, all the toxins leave as grayish color.
Breathing in, greener liver
Breathing out grayish toxins
Breathing in, greener liver
Breathing out grayish toxins
In mind's eye, my STOMACH is red
Inhaling, stomach becomes shinier and brighter with healthy red.
Breathing out, all the toxins leave as grayish color.
Breathing in, red rich stomach
Breathing out grayish toxins
Breathing in, red rich stomach
Breathing out grayish toxins
In mind's eye, my SPLEEN is yellow
Inhaling, spleen becomes yellow and brighter with healthy yellow.
Breathing out, all the toxins leave as yellowish-grayish color.
Breathing in, shinier yellow spleen
Breathing out grayish toxins
Breathing in, shinier yellow spleen
Breathing out grayish toxins
In mind's eye, my small and large intestines are white.
Inhaling, intestines brighten up with light.
Breathing out, all the toxins leave as grayish color.
Breathing in, brighter intestines
Breathing out grayish toxins
Breathing in, brighter intestines
Breathing out grayish toxins
Breathing in, brighter intestines
Breathing out grayish toxins
In mind's eye, lungs are bright and white
Inhaling, lungs brighten up with light.
Breathing out, all the toxins leave as grayish color.
Breathing in, brighter lungs
Breathing out grayish toxins
Breathing in, brighter lungs
Breathing out grayish lungs
Breathing in, brighter lungs
Breathing out grayish toxins
In mind's eye, I see guardian angel rubs special ointment on my chest
Front, sides, and back
Through the skin it goes to my lungs
All inflammation in the lungs subsides!
Airways become healthy and strong
Air sacs in my lungs function efficiently!
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Copyright 2007, Mind Publications
Posted January 2007
Dr. Vijai Sharma
Your Life Coach
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