Visualization

Dr. Carl Simonton to al. (1993) stated that learning to use mental guidance to produce physical relaxation should help strengthen our belief that we can use our minds to support our bodies. People can create mental images of desired states and events. By forming a mental image a person makes a clear mental statement of what he or she wants to happen. As a result of this positive expectation the person begins to act in ways consistent with achieving the desired outcome and helps to bring it about (concept of self-fulfilling prophecy). Visualization is about using your imagination, filling your head with pictures, day-dreaming with a purpose.. Picture a favourite place, a happy scene from your past, a beach, a forest, a garden, a tree. Build up a picture of your favourite place - colours, objects, people. Only place those objects there that you want. Only allow the people you want into your vision - or nobody at all. This is your safe, secure place. It is totally within your control. Go there when you need to relax at any time of the day.
Use visualization to aid recovery from illness. Picture your illness as a soft ball inside you. Gather all of the illness into this soft ball and then with the out breathe blow it far away from you, watch it disappear over the horizon.
Imagine your belly as a furnace. As you breathe in you are stoking the fire and as you breathe out the heat energy flows right to the tips of your fingers and toes. This heat energy gathers up the illness and brings it back into the furnace to be destroyed. Watch the fire destroy the illness and ease the body.