Staying Well With Guided Imagery

self-regenerating ritual that she uses between her sessions with her clients. She walks outside and takes a few moments to sense herself pulling in energy from her surroundings. She pulls it up from the ground through her feet, but also with her eyes from the beauty of the mountains in the distance, and with her nose from the scent of the flowers s

If you find yourself persisting in bossing, critiquing, and reprimanding yourself, try to do what a participant in a workshop once suggested: Create the image of putting all your self-criticisms, kicking and screaming, on a raft and floating them gently downstream.

strings, and voice. Most versions of Pachelbel’s Canon fill this bill. So does the adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony or the Barber Adagio for Strings. Mike Rowland’s Fairy Ring is a lovely popular piece that works well. These are just suggestions. Don’t let them preclude your own preferences.