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Interactive Guided
Imagery. . . |
 Donna
has been Fully Certified in
Interactive Guided Imagery by the
Academy For Guided Imagery since
2002.Imagery is the natural
language of the unconscious mind. It
is not just about “seeing” things.
It is the flow of thoughts you can
see…smell…feel…hear…and taste.
Imagery is also a key component to
our body-mind’s innate intelligence
system. Our bodies have an
intelligent language -- they speak
to us all the time. They tell us
when our stomachs are full, when we
should go to sleep, when we are
stressed out, if a person is
trustworthy or not. However,
sometimes we don’t choose to listen,
or we’ve forgotten how to listen to
our bodies. Interactive Guided
Imagery (IGI) provides us with a
kind of language guide (interpreter)
to help us hear, understand and
communicate back to our body’s
intelligent system.
Research shows us that imagery has a
powerful influence on almost all the
major control systems in the body.
IGI is used as a physical and
emotional healing tool. In some
cases IGI can work in concert with,
or be an alternative to prescription
drugs. IGI has been used for several
years to teach adults and children
to connect to and utilize their own
powerful healing ability, to remain
healthy. IGI has a long standing
history in the healing traditions of
mankind, as evidenced by the placebo
effect, suggestion, positive faith
and bio-feedback.
Our unconscious mind holds valuable
information regarding the origin and
nature of our illnesses and the
potential resolution of our
illnesses. My role as practitioner
is to help guide this valuable
information into the conscious mind
to help discover what action to take
regarding healing illness, or
symptoms. We can also use the vast,
untapped power of the mind to
increase states of health and
wellness.
This work is based on several years
of medical research and various
self-healing programs. It utilizes a
blend of Dr. Carl Simonton's and Dr.
Bernie Siegel's cancer programs; Dr.
Martin Rossman's and Dr. David
Bressler's Academy of Guided Imagery
Programs and Dr Andrew Weil's
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Talking With
Your Symptoms: |
IGI helps us learn how to better
understand the emotional meaning of
our symptoms. By “dialoguing” with
our symptoms we can discover what
information our symptom have for us.
The symptom may be trying to tell us
it will give us relief if we are
willing to give the symptom what it
wants or needs.
- Example: An
overweight 33 year old man has
tried various diet plans to lose
weight with marginal success. He
learns how to use IGI to
dialogue with the part of
himself that wants to indulge in
food and the part that does not
want to indulge in food. Through
this interaction, the two parts
make a compromise with each
other about his eating behaviors
and life style. After a couple
of IGI sessions with these two
parts, his eating habits change
and he begins to lose
weight.
- Example: A 40 year
old career woman and single
mother is suffering from severe,
intermittent back pain. Medical
tests reveal no known pathology
as a cause. She uses IGI to
dialogue with her back and
discovers she is over-worked and
stressed out from driving
herself to be a “super mom”.
Through this dialogue she
understands that she needs to
develop stronger boundaries for
herself at work and at home to
reduce her stress. Once she
begins to do this, her back pain
disappears.
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Using IGI for
Surgery & Healing from Treatments: |
- Example: A 62 year
old man needs bypass heart
surgery. He learns to use IGI to
reduce his stress level and
prepare his body-mind system for
surgery. He plays an IGI audio
tape during surgery to reduce
blood loss, infection and to
allow his muscles, organs and
tissues to relax. The surgeon
finds operating easier. He uses
IGI tapes in the recovery room
and at home to visualize
specific body parts healing. His
pain is reduced. His prognosis
is excellent and his
recuperation time is rapid.
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Insurance companies, surgeons,
medical doctors, dentists and
psychotherapists also promote the
use of IGI for adults and children.
Interactive Guided Imagery is
required training for students in
the Integrative Medicine Program
that Andrew Weil, M.D. teaches at
the University of Arizona Medical
Center. The Medical Center also
recommends IGI to patients with skin
and digestive, sexual and
genitourinary problems, allergy and
autoimmune disorders and any illness
in which healing seems blocked or
stalled. Interactive Guided Imagery
is also used successfully in helping
people reduce stress and worry. You
can use imagery to facilitate your
own relaxation anywhere, anytime.
Research indicates that most all
successful athletes, business
people, performers, scientists,
inventors, and artists use imagery
to preview their options, improve
their technique, transform blocks to
success and increase their capacity
to achieve their goals and dreams. |
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