Interactive Image Therapy: A Pathway for Learning, Healing and Growth
“By using Interactive Imagery, you become the author of your own learning, healing, and growth. You enhance your self-esteem and sense of personal power and effectiveness when you come to appreciate the vast wisdom and knowing you hold within.”
Within each of us lie vast resources of wisdom and guidance.
You can draw on these resources to:
- Make decisions you can trust
- Discover unexpected solutions to the challenges you face
- Better handle challenging personal and professional relationships
- Access previously undeveloped strengths and inner resources
- Uncover and resolve blocks to optimal performance.
What is Interactive Guided Imagery?
Interactive Imagery connects you directly with your own inner wisdom and knowing. This is the work that I love the most. It has been my personal path of transformation and growth, a deeply spiritual path. It has been a privilege and a blessing to witness the powerful and positive impact that working with imagery has had in the lives of my clients.
In a state of deep relaxation, you invite your inner knowing to manifest itself in the form of an image. Your Guide may appear as a wise elder, an animal, or simply a loving presence. Through interaction with your Guide, you gain access to the wisdom and perspective it provides.
Imagery comes from deep levels of consciousness, bringing with it unerring awareness of just what you need to know to help you deal with whatever issue you bring to it. Through interacting with your Guide, you access this information and learn to apply it, bringing about positive change in your life. This interaction between you and your Inner Wisdom is at the center of Interactive Imagery.
Interactive Imagery Example:
One client, Don, wanted to create his own business but was entirely stuck. He encountered a Horse, confined in a paddock, longing to run free. The Horse invited Don to free him so they could ride together. Initially hesitant, Don eventually opened the gate and climbed on the Horse’s back. He started out walking slowly, but as he became more accustomed to and comfortable with the Horse’s power, they ran faster and faster, until Don felt the exhilaration of galloping freely across the plain.
Following this session, Don located the office space he needed and began making the necessary contacts to get his business going. Three years later, his business is still growing. He reports that he drives past a horse in a pasture every day on his way to work. Every time he sees that horse, Don encourages himself to let his power run free.
Awareness that comes from within has the power to transform
Often the insight you receive in imagery is no different from what friends or relatives have told you or what I, as a therapist might say. The crucial difference is that this awareness comes from within. When your learning arises from behind your defenses, it carries the power of personal truth. You effortlessly integrate whatever you need to know to create positive transformation in your life.
Everything you have ever experienced is stored in your unconscious. Your Guide knows what thoughts or feelings have been blocking you. It knows where these blocking beliefs come from and just what’s needed to resolve and release these internal blocks. You can trust that whatever your Guide offers you is precisely what you need to deal with any challenges you’re facing.
Your Guide is especially skilled at bringing you back to those times in your early development when you experienced trauma, leading to feelings, beliefs, and attitudes that keep you from functioning effectively in the present. In imagery, you experience these events with astonishing clarity and immediacy and with a fresh perspective that frees you from the impact they’ve had for years.
Interactive Imagery Example:
A client, Alison, had a Duck who took her back to an incident in her childhood when her mother was verbally abusing her. The Duck took one look at the mother, declared, “This is ridiculous!” and took the little girl Allison outside to play.
Alison had addressed this incident repeatedly in prior therapy. Now, for the first time in her life, she was able to perceive her mother’s abuse with the detachment that enabled her to question and reject it. Once Alison released the negative impact of her mother’s abuse, she began to grow into a new way of loving and accepting herself.
Everything you need to transform your life can be found within
By using Interactive Imagery, you become the author of your own learning, healing, and growth. You enhance your self-esteem and sense of personal power and effectiveness when you come to appreciate the vast wisdom and knowledge you hold within.
In the thirty-five years I have been working with Interactive Imagery, I have been consistently awed by the power, beauty, and elegance of the work. In the deepest of ways, each of us knows intuitively how we need to grow. With remarkable wisdom, insight, and compassion your Guides facilitate that growth, helping you to live to your highest potential and cultivate true joy and well-being.