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Bonus Exercise-- Visualization for Health Enhancement
Use images that are vivid, strong, and meaningful for you. You can create any
image you like. It doesn't have to be a medically accurate image. If you feel good when
you hold an image in your mind, that’s the right imagery for you. Adhere to your
medical treatment and make use of inner powers of healing. Imagination or visualization
of a positive and healing imagery is like adding condiments to your food. Be creative in
your imagination.
Note, we don’t really know if visualization helps with symptom control or not.
But visualization has been utilized by many cancer patients. There are many patients
who claim that visualization definitely helped them. It has great psychological value
because it empowers the visualizing patients and satisfies them with the sense of doing
something for themselves. I recommend it and I regularly do it for my own benefit.
Visualization should be done every day after you have relaxed the body and
calmed the mind. For clogged arteries, imagine a miniature “Roto Rooter” truck cleaning
out your clogged pipes. Breathe and visualize the gunk that was there in your blood or
was sticking to the wall of your arteries is draining down and coming out through your
toes. You may even visualize a pool of black tar liquid collecting near your feet that you
drained out with your out breath.
To support your immune function, create such pictures in your mind that support,
stimulate and strengthen your immune function. For example, imagine your immune