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imagery
oil well
psychospiritual approaches
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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Let your imagination drift through the layers of your mind and body until you have found yourself automatically taking the time to relax. Notice yourself become totally and utterly limp and open and unafraid and let yourself feel good about this change. Allow yourself to realize, that the only part of you, that is not going along with the exercise of relaxation, is your skin. That embarrassing part of you, that is sometimes crusted and inflamed and uncooperative in any case. Let yourself ask this always difficult surface of you body what it wants, why it acts that way. It's ok, if you feel surprised if it answers back, giving precisely the information that you requested. And if perhaps, the information comes to you in a form that must be absorbed slowly and without conscious understanding, that also is OK. For a small, important interim solution, has come also to the fore and this at least, will work out now. Breathe in and out three more times and let yourself wander farther through imagination until you find yourself standing in the rustic barnyard of a small backwoods farm. And right before you is a primitive hand pump. Just the kind of pump that was used long ago, to bring up water for drinking and washing and cleaning house. Examine this pump carefully. Notice that despite its apparent age, there is not a speck of rust upon its surface and the mechanism works easily. Allow yourself to pump the handle and hold your hand beneath the spout. Let yourself be overjoyed, when the fluid that comes out tingles with freshness and with life when the first drop touches your skin and feels oily between your fingers. Instinctively you bring your hand up to the first place that is dry or that itches upon your skin and feel the fresh aliveness soak the flakes, the crusts and redness, bringing soothing relief and gentle healing to these places irritated so long. Realize that this must be the often celebrated but until now legendary "Oil of Life," that you had heard of many times but never quite believed in until now. Take all the oil you need and all the time it takes to enjoy it. Then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)
uses: eczema; psoriasis
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