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rx
imagery
anger strangle
psychospiritual approaches
definition
image: Close your eyes. As you breathe in and out three times slowly, allow yourself the freedom to notice any and all restrictions in the flow of your breathing, however small and insignificant they may seem to you. Your attention is an important tool that in order to serve you, must be focused . Let your attention now rest upon each of these restrictions and notice how significant each feels as your breath ebbs and flows into the lungs. Let the feeling of cut-off flow grow until you recognize the intensity of the situation. Allow yourself to know that you have let yourself be have strangled by the unexpressed and sometimes unadmitted power of your own anger. Allow yourself at last to feel the knotted cords that bind in your breath and know at last that you may unbind them one by one. There may be few but perhaps there are many. Yet it does not matter. What is important at this moment is that each tangle, no matter how tightly drawn, can be undone. Let the first one come loose and let yourself know and feel, the memory that is tangled with that knot, being released as well. Let yourself forgive yourself for holding such anger and then let yourself truly forgive the one, or even the ones, that you have been angry at. Something odd happens as the feeling of forgiveness takes hold. The special, unmistakable pain of deep inactive anger lets go, to be replaced by a fleeting moment of deep hurt before blowing entirely away. Realize, that if any other emotion had come to replace the anger, then the knot would not have been released and no healing come to be. After the first cord has been loosed, let the second be undone and so on until all the strangling reminders of unexpressed rage have been let go and all restriction has blown away. Take all the time you need to savor the release, then allow your eyes to slowly open once again. (Chavez)
uses: release anger
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