Creative imagery consists of making mental pictures and reinforcing them with silent but strongly positive autogenic phrases or suggestions. By using visual symbols plus verbal affirmations, we create an inner dialog that is immediately understood by both the verbally oriented left brain and the visually oriented right brain. Our symbols and suggestions are fed through these twin brain hemispheres into the subconscious. Since the subconscious uncritically accepts all symbols and suggestions fed into it, our instructions are immediately relayed to the autonomic nervous system (ANS) to be carried out.
ANS pathways parallel all arterial blood vessels and they control blood vessel diameter. They also control all involuntary body functions from blood pressure to heartbeat and breathing rates, kidney function, immunocompetence, digestion, and production of enzymes and hormones.
By learning to speak the language of the right brain— using symbols and imagery instead of words—our blueprint for wellness is communicated directly through the ANS to the involuntary controls of most bodily functions. And whatever we have visualized and suggested gradually becomes a reality.
Once you have learned deep relaxation, creative imagery is easy to learn and results often come swiftly. At the UCLA Medical School, headache pain was relieved in 60 percent of sufferers the first time they used creative imagery.
Nor do we have to tell the body what to do to relieve headache pain. All we need do is visualize ourselves free of headache, in perfect health, and able to do everything that headaches normally prevent. You don’t need to tell the mind how to achieve headache freedom. The subconscious will figure that out at the subclinical level.
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