To meet your Inner Physician, go into your Head Center and when you are ready and comfortable, call him/her forth.  Get acquainted and ask as many questions as you desire of your Inner Physician.  In a way, the Inner Physician is an internal dowsing tool but it is also much more for within each of us lie all the answers to our dis-ease.  Most if not all of our dis-ease stems from our emotions.  (If you have not read Louise L. Hay's book, "You Can Heal Your Life" please get the book and read it cover-to-cover.)  Therefore, when working with your Inner Physician on a physical ailment or dis-ease, be aware the problem or source stems from your emotional nature, ... the more emotion the more chance of it manifesting into your physical body. 

Have fun with this exercise.  Walk through your entire body with your Inner Physician, ask advice and counsel while speaking with each of your organs or systems such as the circulatory system.  Of course with this and every exercise, log and date the experience as much as possible.  Realize the Inner Physician is You, speaking to yourself.  By now and through these exercises you have begun to realize a glimmer of truth ... yes, you can trust yourself!  Isn't that wonderful?

MAINTENANCE ROOM
As we each have an Inner Physician, we also have a Maintenance Room filled with whatever and whomever resides there, maintaining our physical, mental, and emotional bodies.  This exercise is one of the most fantastic experiences because many people have experienced such a vast variety in their Maintenance Room and it is much like the Head Center in a way.  In the Maintenance Room exercise, begin in your Head Center look around for an entrance or pathway to your Maintenance Room.  It can be located directly from your Head Center, inside your Head Center, down through your body, etc. 

Once located enter and have a look around.  Do you like what you see?  How do you feel in here?  Is there anyone or anything here?  If so, communicate with them.  Do you have a Maintenance Man or Woman in your Maintenance Room?  What does he/she look like?  Are you satisfied with their maintenance performance on your behalf?  If so, thank them for their help and ask them if they would like something, a resource from one of the hemispheres perhaps, to help them further with their work.  If not, talk with them and find out why things aren't up to par, up to your standards, or expectations.  Communicate your displeasure and your desires.  Ask them for help and tell them you will assist them.  Most important, do show them your support and love no matter their condition or the condition of your maintenance room. 

When you have finished to your satisfaction, return to your Head Center and note any new changes in the Head Center (i.e., color, time of day, anything or anyone new, change in temperature, lighting, sounds).  Give thanks for the opportunity to heal and love yourself more.  Repeat as often as you like.

THE BOTANY GARDENS OR SQUAW MOUNTAIN JOURNEYING TECHNIQUES*
From your Head Center go to one of these two locals: 

(1) Stroll through the Botany Gardens; 
(2) Climb Squaw Mountain. 

How to get to them?  Just command or be in them.  Use this exercise to answer or find direct answers to specific questions or problems you are experiencing.  On this journey you will discover the solution to your problem/opportunity.  Additionally, upon entering your Head Center you may find that your right brain (creative consciousness) desires to journey elsewhere ... a place of its own choosing.  Perhaps this place represents a favorite destination of yours.  Wherever you go, after you come back from your journey you will have had an exciting personal discovery. 

When you have finished this exercise to your satisfaction, return to your Head Center and note any new changes in the Head Center (i.e., color, time of day, anything or anyone new, change in temperature, lighting, sounds).  Give thanks for the opportunity to heal and love yourself more.  Repeat as often as you like.

*Dr. Milton Erickson's "Journey Technique"

Walk Down Memory Lane Guided Meditation for the "Third (3rd) Eye Blind"
 

FIRST, ANSWERS TO A FEW QUESTIONS:

Q.  How do I as a facilitator respond to this type of reality?

Mechanically, what is happening inside this person is they differentiate or separate fantasy or daytime dreaming from memories.  Let's say a person has a memory of something very familiar to them.  We all do.  We remember smells, aromas of freshly baked bread.  We remember the delicate smell of a rose.

Let's take it a step further.  Now picture the rose in your mind's eye.

You see, there are some who simply cannot do this.  To these, I say, there is yet hope.  Fear not!  Yes, even you will "see".

So, when this type of individual comes across my couch I offer up the following simple-to-do meditation/exercise to break through the barrier of non-belief.  And help reconstruct their belief system to include other possibilities into their reality.

Q.  Why is this meditation different from any other?

It blends or merges an individual's daytime or fantasy world with their "real" world.  You will see the obvious "trigger" later on in the meditation.

Q.  What is a trigger and why is a it necessary?

The trigger is key in this meditation.  We have the basic components of:

Familiarization and comfort (relaxing the client into a gentle state of self hypnosis - this is similar to the effects of humor and laughter) through the use of the familiar memory environment.Pretending.  Pretending brings the client face-to-face with the opportunity to allow the inner creative part of them to flow.  Creative Imagination also sparks the will to create something wonderful giving the client hope; where they begin to experience their own potential.Re-programming Trigger.  Whether it is a clown, bear or another non-threatening image, it serves to ground the fantasy into memory reality.  It also serves to prove to the client they too can see and imagine and are fully capable of utilizing these dormant muscles.

The trigger is the subject of fantasy or daytime dreaming.  I tend to use the same triggers (a clown or teddy bear) with my clients.  Once while working with someone who had been deeply programmed and emotionally scarred as a young girl, the moment came in this meditation for the trigger.  My intuition told me, pre-empted my thoughts and suggested she would be frightened of the clown.

As you know, as facilitators of this method or any healing methods, it is not our intention as healers to frighten clients.  Integrity always.  Thus, I quickly changed the trigger to what I sensed she would "see" in her memory as something non-invasive, non-threatening ... what else but a cute Teddy Bear.   When the Teddy Bear trigger was introduced in the meditation, she strongly took to it, saw it without delay and felt entirely comfortable.  Intuition once again stepped in and saved the day.

Use your own inner guidance system, Dear Reader, and remember to pay close attention to the feelings you have at every moment.  It is easy to do when you trust, when you allow and stay centered within.  Then you can be the most effective for your clients, for yourself.

The meditation is a walk down memory lane with a twist.  The first part draws you into your memories.  The second introduces the trigger or bridge subject into your memories.

**Dr. George Fraser's Dissociative Table Technique or Dissociative Work Room" and "Affect or Somatic Bridge"

Walk Down Memory Lane Meditation (for the 3rd Eye Blind)

Sit or lay in a comfortable, resting position.  Close your eyes.  Breath deeply and gently.  Allow your body to relax.  Focus on your body's weight as you relax, feeling its heaviness as it settles into a restful state.  You are awake and alert, yet very calm and peaceful.

Go to a memory of familiar territory.  Your favorite room in your house.  For this meditation, we will use your own home; a place where you spend plenty of time.  Imagine or remember your most familiar room in your home.  If you are a teenager it may be your bedroom in your parent's home.  Otherwise it may be your kitchen or family room.  For the sake of this meditation, we will concentrate on your bedroom.

Keep your eyes closed and see your bedroom before you.  Remember what it looked like when you left it today?  What does it look like?  Remember all the things about your bedroom, the look of the bedspread, the curtains, your pictures or posters.  See the furniture placement, pillows, clothes, etc.

Stand in the middle of your bedroom.  Can you do that?  Yes, of course you can.  This is very familiar to you.  Look around now at your room.  Can you see the door leading from your bedroom to the rest of the house? Good.  Note that the door to your bedroom is closed in this meditation.  You are enclosed and safe in your bedroom.

How do you feel in this place?  Do you feel good in your bedroom?  Does it give you good feelings, happy feelings?  Sad feelings?  Feel this room and realize this is representative of who you are.

Now that you are here in your bedroom, comfortable and standing in the middle of the room, imagine that someone is entering your home.  You cannot see them yet for they are outside the house but you hear the sounds of the door's handle jiggling open.  You hear the door swing open yet you cannot see who is entering yet for you are still in your bedroom.

You hear footfalls coming through the house yet you cannot see who is coming.  You stand perfectly still in your room but are not afraid.  This is probably someone familiar to you; someone who knows your or the house well.  Yet, you stand with your eyes fixed on the door to your bedroom.

You now notice the handle to your door begin to turn.  The door swings open and a big teddy bear enters your bedroom.  Do you see the bear?  Can you describe what the bear looks like?  Is it wearing anything?  Describe it now.  How do you feel about this bear?  Does the bear have something in its hand?  If so, what?  If you wish to speak to the bear, do so now.  If you have a gift for the bear, give it to the bear now.  Thank the teddy bear for helping you.  See the bear leave your bedroom, leave the house, closing the door behind him or her.  How do you feel?  How does your bedroom look now?  Is it the same or different?  If so, describe.

You are finished and are ready to come out into the here and now.

Don't forget to ... JOURNAL!