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imagery
discovering the walnut
psychospiritual approaches

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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Relax and let your imagination go pleasantly wild, and let it construct for you a series of four unrelated images that you have never seen before. Smile gently when one of them amuses you, sigh contentedly if one comforts you, and let your body give a little start, if one surprises you. It's all OK. And when you realize that everything is just as it should be, allow an image to float into your mind to represent your prostate gland. Let it be an image of a swollen ball, soft and puffy yet so full of itself that tubes that carry fluids passing through it are choked off by the pressure and the fluid in them cannot flow. Take a moment to contemplate that image and see how poorly it serves you. Notice that the element that is plainly out of place in this image is the swelling within the ball. Allow yourself to see and feel your hands reach out, to gently take this puffy ball between your palms and then begin to massage it gently. Watch, as droplets of excess material begin to rain down from its unhealthy surface and the soft ball begins to shrink and take on a stiffer, healthier texture, both on the outside and on the inside. Let your massaging fingers continue gently for as long as necessary, to thoroughly change the size and texture of your imaginary prostate ball until you discover that the outside surface now resists pressure with the same stiff resilience as might a walnut and the flow of fluids through the tubes that are inside of it, pass free and unrestricted. Take a moment to see just how well this image serves you. Then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)

• uses: prostate cancer, prostatitis.


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