Test Your Self Guided Imagery Skills

It is an incredible experience to be taken on a journey by someone with a slow melodic soothing voice, to experience guided imagery and meditation, but you can also practice guided imagery on your own. When you are having a particularly tense or stressful moment, try this self guided imagery as a template (or you can create anything your imagination allows) and please feel free to leave feedback about your experience in the comment section below this blog post.

Get into a comfortable position on a chair, bed, floor, outside, wherever really as long as you're not driving a car. Close your eyes and concentrate on being mindful of your self and your body. Slowly focus on relaxing every part of your body - begin with your feet, then ankles, then calves, and so on until you reach the face (spend a good bit of time focusing on relaxing each part seperately - chin, mouth, tongue, cheeks, eyes, brow, etc), and finally to the top of your head. When you feel fully relaxed and sort of in a half sleep type of state, allow your mind to be a solid colored canvas (black, white, orange, pink, any color at all). Then imagine seeing your hands lift up in front of you. In one hand is a lemon. Take your time noticing the color, the texture - is it bumpy, is it smooth. Then slowly visualize your other hand begin to twist the lemon in half (ah! our lemon is pre-cut!). Notice the smell, the mist of juice as it pulls apart. Go slowly and allow yourself to fully enjoy this lemon. Then take your lemon halves and walk outside. Plant your lemon halves in the ground (whatever type of ground that may be - grass, dirt, sand, any type of ground that you imagine) and watch as a small plant springs from the ground. This plant may stay small or it may grow to be a tree. Enjoy some time seeing what you have created. After spending some time in the company of your creation and when you feel you are ready, begin to slowly wiggle your toes and your fingers. Then move your arms and legs, stretch really well, and open your eyes. How do you feel?