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This meditation was composed specifically for people with AIDS, and may be adapted to benefit all concerned with immune dysfunction. Begin with "Induction", which is a method for inducing deep relaxation through breath awareness and hypnotic suggestion with countdown from 10 to facilitate creating your own place of great power. The meditation ends with "Vitality of Life", given after the following image(s):
image: Now focus on your bones. Penetrate your awareness inside of your bones, imagine the marrow inside of your bones. The marrow is a factory keeping your blood nourished, fluid, balanced. Just as your blood nourishes your whole body, your marrow nourishes your blood. As though the marrow were like an underground spring feeding the rivers of blood that move through the landscape of your body. Your blood is full of richness and all kinds of cells. There are T-cells and B-cells that flow through your blood, your body's army of defensive guards. Imagine them. Imagine each and every T-cell and B-cell as strong, armies of them guarding and watching for foreign invaders. The T-cells are the generals, and whenever they discover any foreign invaders, they instruct your B-cells to produce antibodies, and these flow into your blood and kill everything that should not be there. Imagine all this activity now....
And when the invaders are killed off by the antibodies, you have monocytes in your blood, traveling in the tissue, cleaning up all the debris left behind by the successful fight of the guards, the antibodies. Keeping the landscape of your body clear so all the cells in your body, in every area in your body, are able to do their own job easily, clear of any problems. . . . You have lymph nodes through out your body. The lymph nodes are like sentry posts; that's where the T-cells and B-cells live and reside. They recognize when more T-cells and B-cells are needed, and they multiply and go back out to the blood doing their work. Imagine the sentry posts, your lymph nodes, where T-cells and B-cells live and multiply, traveling to fight infection, killing any viruses, and monocytes mopping up the debris. Imagine all this. Feel it.. . Know that this is so inside your body. Your body has cared for itself in the past, your body cares for itself now. You heal yourself. . .
This army is vigilant, activating your immune system and successfully destroying infection. Leaving health wherever this army of cells travels. Imagine how they know to recognize what disturbs the balance in any area. There are two kinds of T-cells: the helper cells which activate your immune system as you've been imagining, and the suppressor cells. You only have half as many suppressor cells, and it is all you need. They complement the helper cells that direct the killing of the foreign viruses. The suppressor cells let the helper cells know when they can relax, take a break knowing they've done the job well, until they are needed again, needed to eliminate anything that disturbs the balance of your body. Imagine both kinds of cells . . . in just the right proportion. All of these cells communicate well with each other. Each knows its job and is never fooled. Imagine the sense of keen awareness each of these cells has.... Trust it.
.... Each cell is strong. Your whole body is regaining, maintaining health. If you sense any imbalance in the makeup of your army or in the lymph nodes, if you notice any imbalance anywhere, imagine asking the cells what is needed to regain balance. Let your imagination make up what they tell you. Trust it. ... Imagine how you can compensate so your body can regain, maintain, its health. Imagine sending vital healing energy to this army. Now travel with the army with your awareness, and notice if there are any foreign viruses in your body, and imagine the antibodies attacking them, killing, them, monocytes clearing the debris and your body returning to health and balance and harmony....
Acknowledge the powers you've become attuned to. Know that the very fact that you've imagined these things makes them possible, makes them probable. Know that you are now aligned with powerful harmonizing energies and you will intuitively act in accord with them. You have evoked healing powers... Know that your body will continue to respond to these healing energies.... Give yourself permission to believe in yourself, in your body, in life itself...
(Serinus, p. 184)
Vitality of Life (abbreviated here, can be used at beginning or end.): Feel the life that flows through you always, the spontaneous, inexhaustible energy, vibrant, radiant energy moving through you like a river that's never twice the same. Imagine this force of energy, the rhythm of this energy, energy which your life rides on from moment to moment. Feel it teeming in every cell of your body, through every pore, every organ, energy, radiant energy. Feel this energy's connection with all of life force energy, energy that permeates everything, the glow of the life force. Feel the vitality of the life force surging through you. With each breath you can feel it, experience it more vividly.
(Serinus, p. 203)
uses: AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, cancer, any immune dysfunction
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imagery for immune system
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