The first step in creative imagery is to enter deep relaxation (Technique # 14). Although not essential, you can deepen this relaxation by adding biofeedback (Technique #15).
You should now be tying down, deeply relaxed Begin by getting in touch with your headache pain and experiencing it. Exactly where is it? What are its dimensions? Is it constant or pulsating? Can you give it a shape, color, smell or taste?
Then continue with one or more of these frequently-used imagery techniques.
• Project Your Headache Out of the Body Place your awareness on the location of the headache. Visualize its exact shape and dimensions. Now detach this block of pain out of your head and see it several feet in front of you. Meanwhile, visualize a gaping empty space in your head where the pain was formerly located. For instance, you might picture your entire forehead removed from your body.
You can do several things with the painful area you have just detached. You might “see” yourself dropping it into a garbage can. Connect the can to a hot-air balloon and watch it soar away out of sight, never to be seen again.
Or you can visualize the detached painful area out in front of you and fill it with ice-cold water. After it is completely numbed and blue with cold, return it to your head.
Or you can magnify the detached painful area to ten times its original size. Then shrink it down to one-tenth its original size. Repeat this exercise ten times. When back to normal size, fill the painful area with a soothing, bright green light. After a few minutes, return it to your head.
Usually, these exercises so overload the brain with sensory stimulation that pain impulses have difficulty getting through. By the time the exercises are over, the headache has often disappeared.
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