Transformational Guided Imagery The Journey

As we begin every TGI session, it is important to prepare your body, mind, and spirit by performing this simple-t0-do, light meditation exercise. This particular exercise I am sharing is simple and may be freely utilized. It is helpful in balancing and aligning your 12 chakra systems as well.

Begin your preparation by sitting or lying in a comfortable position; sitting on a couch cross-legged with a comfortable pillow propping up your back is very effective. A session may last from one to two hours so make yourself as comfortable as you can. The following is the opening meditation:

With eyes closed ... Imagine a small red cloud coming before your inner vision. See it floating before you. Inhale the little red cloud through your nose, slowly and gently, inhaling deeply, filling your lungs and belly with this little red cloud. Now through your mouth, slowly exhale the little red cloud from your belly and lungs.

The red cloud represents your root chakra or 1st chakra

The next cloud you see is a small orange cloud. Do the same inhale/exhale exercise for this colored cloud. Inhale the orange cloud through your nose slowly and completely, and exhale the orange cloud through your mouth.

The orange cloud represents your sacral chakra or 2nd chakra

Do this exact same inhale/exhale technique for the remaining clouds.

Yellow cloud, solar plexus or 3rd chakra
Green cloud, heart chakra or 4th chakra
Pink cloud, this is for your high heart chakra, or known as the high heart area
Blue cloud, for your throat chakra area, your throat center, 5th chakra
Purple cloud, for your third of ivy, or your Third Eye chakra, 6th chakra
Silver cloud, your crown chakra, 7th chakra
Seafoam green cloud, your 8th chakra
Pink/orange cloud, your 9th chakra
Blue green cloud, your 10th chakra
Pearlescent white cloud, you're 11th chakra
And last but not least, a beautiful golden cloud, halo, 12 chakra

This concludes the opening meditation. You should now be in a gentle, relaxed state of being. You may feel free to get up and move about as you wish, take a sip of water, and so forth, and yet are capable of returning to this state of relaxation. You are now ready to begin the initial TGI exercise in the Head Center ...

THE TGI EXERCISES

Head Center
Imagine you are able to go inside your head. Would you like to go there? If so, be in the space in your head, between your ears, behind your eyes, right in the center of your head. Can you get there? Can you see anything? Sense anything? Feel anything? Can you sense a size to this space? How big or small is it? Can you identify colors, sounds? How do you feel?

If you can answer these questions, wonderful. If not, and you don't see anything at all, try "pretending" to be in that space. Logic aside. Remember, this is like a daydream but structured and focused.

Feel free to spend as much or as little time in this place as you feel you can allow. Come back to this place in your next meditation time, another day perhaps, until you feel more comfortable.

Once you are here in your Head Center and feel relatively comfortable, having another look around ... is there anything you wish to change about this space? The size? Is it too large, too small? Is there a light source? Have the colors changed? How do you feel?

Since you are pretending, feel free to embellish this place as much or as little as you wish.

Every time you leave your Head Center, thank it for allowing you the opportunity to get to know it, and experience it. If you wish to give some kind of gift now, feel free to do so.

One client wanted a comfortable recliner in his space, rock n roll music in the background.Another wanted their favorite dog by their side so they made a little space for the dog with a bed and some food and water.Still another found their Head Center to be a huge auditorium.Another saw a teepee with a wolf guide waiting within.One saw their favorite room from childhood complete with their favorite play toys.Another saw the inside of a space ship with a huge control console of computer systems.And yet another found a beautiful garden oasis right in the center of their head.One client's Head Center was the entire universe with a floating platform at the center.Yet, another saw nothing but a comfortable womb-like black void filled with possibilities and potential.

As many people as there are in the world ... there are just as many unique Head Centers to be explored and uncovered. The Father has Many Mansions ... we each of us have worlds within worlds. This is one of the reasons why I love this work.

Remember to utilize the tips listed above. Interact with everything animate and inanimate around you.

If, hypothetically, the second time you enter your Head Center, you discover a potted plant sitting right in the middle of your space, feel free to ask it why its there, if it has a message for you, if there is anything you can do for it.

The same method of approach used in the Head Center can be utilized in any one of the following locations. Feel free to use your imagination and create new and different places to visit.

Now, after your experience in your Head Center, to get you oriented a bit ... Let's go on a brief visual tour.

From the center of your head, face forward as if you were staring out of the two eyes in your head. That is facing forward. Be facing forward and at this time I will give you a bit of orientation.

Right Hemisphere
Look to the right, from here you may see a path, walkway, gateway, entryway, doorway which will take you into your right hemisphere.

Left Hemisphere
From facing forward again, now look to the left, from here you may see a path, walkway, gateway, entryway, doorway which will take you into your left hemisphere.

Third Eye
Facing forward again, look directly ahead, between your two physical eyes, and up just a little ... here you will find your Third 3rd Eye.

Crown
Being in the center of your head again, look upwards and know that this is a place you can go to and explore as well. It is your Crown.

Vertical Line
Facing forward look around and see if you can notice a hole in the floor of your Head Center. If you can find one, then look for a vertical line, or a plumb line. This will be your connection to and through your physical body. From here you can climb aboard this line and travel down through your body, stopping at various organs and areas, communicating and healing along the way.

One client visited his lungs and saw they were sad, gasping and filled with intense dark charred smoke tar from his smoking. He came up with the idea to flush his lungs clean with a big fireman's hose that appeared out of nowhere. He sprayed and sprayed each lung and made sure there was good drainage at the base of each lung by placing a release valve at the bottom of each lung for drainage out into the 'universe' for recycling and cleansing. His breathing improved at that moment and he felt renewed interest in quitting smoking, especially after communicating with his lungs and realizing how sad they were.

Hallway
Be back in your Head Center facing forward again. Turn 180 degrees around and face the back of your Head Center this time. You may find a hallway or passageway going out the back of your Head Center. This is the hallway where we work directly on any fears you may have.

One person immediately saw several doors on the left-hand side of the hallway, went in the first and explored a traumatic past memory from childhood but they did it with a sense of calm detachment. Here they cleared out the experience and reclaimed their power and immediately their chronic back pain lessened significantly.

Another client saw several doors on both sides of the hallway, went into the first door on the right and saw family member issues they immediately dealt with, cleared the space, redecorated the room, forgave and blessed the situation and reclaimed their power. Upon walking back out into the hallway they discovered that half the doors had disappeared. Sometimes we can deal with an issue that creates multiple levels of healing along the way.

SUMMARY

As you may have discovered in reading the above, the Head Center's function connecting and connotes simply that ... the center of activity. As you have learned from the above exercises, most if not all activities or exercises emanate from or are begun in the Head Center.

Why have I included the extra step of noting the Head Center's environment? As you review your log/date records you will begin to notice a pattern and improvement just in the Head Center alone. Each time an exercise is performed, your Head Center's environment changes indicating progress in the way of perhaps a brighter light source, less clutter, more openness, etc. This is a great way to gauge your progress as well.

Many of these techniques will distract the rational conscious mind ... left brain (right-handed people) or right brain (left-handed people) ... and allow your unconscious or creative mind to emerge and give brilliant directions. The basic principal of therapy is to bypass the conscious mind and through indirect communication with the logical mind we utilize the creative right brain or unconscious mind for assistance.

These exercises offer procedural help, but the experience is yours. If you have a favorite exercise, stick with it. Do it over and over again. Develop your own variations of staging areas from your interests and personal mythology. Don't forget to journey journal.