Visualizations and Healing

One of my favourite ways of getting to know someone and allowing them to move into a free state of mind and openness to imagery or symbols is the psychological word test. It is used by many psychologists in a similar manner to a Rorschach test. I do not think there is as much value in the Rorschach test because there is no communication between the interpreter and the patient. No doubt there are circumstances when an open sharing of what the psychologist perceives is not advantageous but often it is a desire to gain a position of power and control at work. It can also mask the ineptitude of the practitioner.

In the psychological word test you establish a personal paradise before starting. In the trip through paradise the interpreter withholds the interpretation until all the answers have been given to the visualizations of that person's personal and free paradise. Just helping the person lose their fears and setting the proper mood takes skill and compassion or (hopefully you can access your empathic connections) love. It will build good visualization skills in people who have never done it before. Visualizations are very much a part of wholistic healing and dreams are one of the most important ways of working on the visualized regeneration. Breathing is a regimen of continued impact and becomes unconsciously able to attune the forces that proper visualization can attune ones' body to allow such creation. It all works together in harmony with beauty and a lack of fear when one knows the soul 'within'.

The following quote says that fear and insecurity impact how one acts towards their own body in some interesting ways. The book it is taken from is The Healing Power of Dreams by Patricia Garfield Ph. D.:
"Transformation Rituals
New Behaviors as Health Returns

People who have been injured or ill mark their return to wellness by specific behaviors. These actions are sometimes straightforward 'freshening up'. Rona, for instance, after being out of-work for several months with a mangled wrist, had her hair colored and newly styled and got a manicure the week prior to returning to her job. Hand therapists report that one of the surest signs of increased vigor in a woman with a hand injury is beginning to use nail polish again or getting a manicure. Such women, like Rona, are feeling well enough to want to look attractive. Yet these behaviors imply even more.

We saw how an alienation of the afflicted body part is typical following an injury. Using nail polish indicates that the woman is re-connecting with her formerly disowned body part. We need to