Empowering, Enlivening & Enriching Lives
with Creative Visualization
for the New Millennium
 
 

 
Introduction and Q&A

Get ready for an exciting journey as you discover who you truly are inside your expanded state of consciousness and as you uncover your hidden potential to fully realizing your infinite potential.  Understanding one basic truth: God lies within ... we can therefore move on from here .... You are your own best healer, guide, guru, teacher, friend and companion. All the answers lie within.

  • Your journey will take you to many a sacred, magickal place where you will be shown your greatest gifts through your untapped or hidden inner resources.
  • Your journey will take you to discover your awaiting inner counsel of teachers, dream guides, guides and assistants to assist you.  Be prepared to not only discover them but find they actually discover you along the way.

DREAMING AWAKE
Remember being a young child in the summer, after school has been out for about a month.  There you are, its a rainy summer day and you're in the house wondering what to do in the middle of a long afternoon.  You lounge across your bed and look out at fat rain drops slide down your window and begin to daydream your afternoon away:

  • You're at the high school dance and the date-of-your-dreams boy asks you to dance; heart-pounding you say, "Yes!"
  • You won awesome tickets to a Mets game.  With a crowd roaring in the background and the help of your well-worn, trusty glove you've just caught the final inning's crucial pop foul.
  • Your art project receives the highest award ever and is featured in a big write up in the school paper.
  • You are picked as one of the lead ballerinas of the city ballet company's upcoming holiday "Nutcracker".
As a youngster, you could sit and while away the hours daydreaming, pretending to be somebody, be something different, more special, healthier, wiser, smarter, cuter, prettier, happier.

Why? You needed to feel more of something for you felt yourself lacking somewhere.  We all have this inside, its our conditioning from way back when we were small and the neighbor kid beat us up for looking at them cross-eyed or the school kids taunted us mercilessly with lies and crude remarks about our skin, height, weight, hair, coloring, heritage, or beliefs.  ... Or from the programming we applied to ourselves from abusive parents living their lives with a bottle in one hand and a belt in the other.  ... Or from the subsequent abusive spouse spouting off obscenities at us, finding ourselves in their skewed sexually deviant or shameful dramas, or feeling the sting of verbal abuse fueled by deep-seated fears of inadequacy.

These and many, many other reasons are why we choose to judge ourselves - usually harshly, or why we continue the cycle of abuse by drowning ourselves in compulsive obsessions via our jobs and careers, drugs, alcohol and illegal substances, addictions to foods, shopping, pill popping, mind-numbing television, and the list goes on and on and on.

We are all searching to better ourselves, to feel better, be better.  When we recall our youth, hopefully with some modicum of pleasure, we recall how free we felt, how alive when we allowed our imaginations to run amuck, frolicking in an amazing fantasy world.

When you consider how easy it is to daydream you can then understand TGI a bit more.  TGI, however, is not the unfocused, lazy daytime dreaming we did as a youth, rather, it is a focused, intentionally directed daytime dreaming state.  TGI is the process of going within a daytime dreaming state and managing, monitoring, and modifying our reality.  Your conscious mind  creates, interprets, modifies, and adjusts (transforms/heals) itself according to what you innately need to heal.

Q.  How is this different from nighttime dreaming?

With the exception of the rare lucid nighttime dream (you know, the vivid dream you wake from in the middle of the night saying, "Oh wow that was incredible!"), dreaming awake is better than nighttime dreaming for a few reasons.  We can actually remember all the parts of dreaming awake while the nighttime dream fades away the morning after.  And, again, with the exception of the nighttime lucid dream (where you know you're dreaming) (with the outside chance that you've not taken dream courses from don Juan Mateos the Toltec Spiritual Warrior) you are unable to affect or change your nighttime dream but when you dream awake you can change every facet to suit your needs, doing so until you are fully and completely satisfied.

Q.  Why does this work so well?

Transformational Guided Imagery (TGI) is a most powerful healing tool you can study and learn and eventually teach others.  TGI is interactive as well as a solo healing tool.  It will open up gateways of knowledge, truth, understanding and flow within you.  It will empower you.  It will pass ALL BOUNDARIES within and heal you.  It is that part of TGI that confounds psychologists and psychotherapists.

It is that very part of TGI that is known as:

the Hidden
the Unseen
the Mysterious
the Unknowable

Yet it is that very mystery that propells us to health and well-being.  It is in our bodily nature to be well and healthy.  TGI naturally assists in this process.

Q.  Do you literally guide me through a "guided meditation"?

No, TGI is very different from guided meditation which elicits a specified outcome.  In a typical session a facilitator will suggest or guide up to a point but is not allowed to go beyond the inherent subconscious creativity of a client where they create their own outcome, and to know where that fine line exists takes intuitive self connection on the part of the facilitator.

As you truly have all the answers within, we just simply work together to bring those answers easily forth through gentle intuitive guidance.

Q.  I don't want to be hypnotized, is this deep hypnosis?

No.  The beauty of TGI, is that the client always knows they are in complete control over their session; feeling comfortable, safe and secure in the knowing that they are not under deep hypnosis, or at the mercy of the facilitator. At any time clients may open their eyes and ask to stop the session.  A state of light self-hypnosis is inevitable anytime one works in a focused, meditative state.  The client's privacy and person are maintained as the integrity of the situation depends upon this action by the facilitator. Complete trust in the facilitator aids the client's feelings of well-being and trust, thus allowing for a comfortable, relaxed, yet effective session to occur.

Q.  What is unique about TGI as a healing tool?

According to modern psychology, they purportedly agree our conscious minds cannot be trusted to solve problems of body, mind and spirit because "our minds are an integral part of the problem."

In wanting to release our core programming (old emotional baggage), TGI works beautifully to objectively heal deep inner pain issues through bypassing the conscious/ego, and is one of the strongest, most powerful healing tools available to release core programming so effectively and directly.  TGI shows you how truly wonderful, dynamic, creative and divine you really are, gracefully.

Q.  Can I use TGI in conjunction with other healing therapies?

Yes!  TGI is different from many of the physical healing tools available (i.e., acupuncture, massage therapy, etc.).  Why?  Because TGI works from the inner psyche level on the individual mental, emotional and spiritual level as opposed to the physicality of other healing modalities which affect the physical, emotional and spiritual levels.

TGI wonderfully compliments physical therapies as the healing works as a one-two punch.  In fact, many clients prefer physical release work right after a TGI session.

EXAMPLE
Six months before the Winter Olympics, one of the athletes, a downhill skier, nearly lost his life in an accident.  He was laid up in the hospital with broken legs, and later recuperated in the comfort of his home with nursing assistants.  He had his heart set on his dream ... the Winter Olympics and was a superb athlete. He knew the power of the mind so while he remained bedridden, he began his "exercises and training" for the games anyway.

Six months later, he was at the games.  Standing, feet in ski shoes, ready to win.  Not only did this young man win in his event, but he was in incredible physical shape, far more robust, athletically built and precise with his downhill run routine.  All the other athletes trained, sweated, and struggled all those months, too.  But why did this young man who hadn't lifted a finger to train, suddenly appear out of no where and whisk away a win in the event with a gold medal?

His training was ALL IN HIS MIND! For hours a day he would focus on his downhill practice runs, imagining he was actually skiing downhill, he would go thru a drill of exercises working all his muscles.  That is all he did.

Amazingly true story.  The Sports Medicine industry (doctors/psychologists) know the value of this work because they understand the power of the mind and I am about to share with you some of their secrets.  Please ... read on!