Creative Imagery

Creative Imagery is a gentle, but powerful relaxation technique that focuses and directs the imagination to create what you truly want in your life. When your mind and body are deeply relaxed you are able to use your right-brain, your natural creative imagination in a more conscious way to create a clear image of something you wish to manifest. This may be love, satisfying relationships, health, enjoyment, prosperity, overcoming obstacles, attaining goals . . . Creative imagery has also been called ‘visualisation’ which can be misleading as imagery involves the whole body, the emotions and all the senses, hearing, smell, taste, seeing, (visual), but especially feeling (kinaesthetic).

How Creative Imagery is used depends on what you wish to manifest. For a positive outcome or goal, you would be encouraged to imagine yourself in that role, maybe speaking confidentially in public, using the same posture cues or gestures creates an anchor that you can then adopt at the event, or for weight loss visualising yourself the desired weight you wish to achieve.

Endorphins are the miracle hormones that relax tissues and release tension. Seeing yourself through kind and loving eyes and recalling thoughts and activities that trigger endorphins can release negativity and create a physical sense of wellbeing .

Creative Imagery can be used that focuses on healing processes within the body, such as imaging cancerous tumours shrinking in the body.

Creative Imagery has the built-in capacity to deliver multiple layers of complex, encoded messages using symbols and metaphors enabling the mind to use its own unique imagination to change or edit what is offered for what is needed.

Using Creative Imagery with children can be especially rewarding as it is usually near to second nature for them. Children have both a natural need and an ability for creative and imaginative play that makes the consciously applied use of imagery almost effortless for them.

Creative Imagery can help children to retain and focus their own imaging skills and put them to creative use in addressing the challenges that face them today. Metaphorical stories may be used therapeutically for children with particular challenges, such as irrational fears, anxiety, thumb sucking, nail biting, etc.