Inhale deeply through your nose and exhale slowly and deliberately through your mouth. See sense and feel yourself facing a landscape of destruction; clouds of smoke, a rubble of steel, and concrete. Women and men entombed. With the next breath create space within yourself for all the feelings that rise up. All the sorrow, futility, grief, fear, contempt or anything else that seeks expression.
Breathe out once.
Now see, sense and feel the sky unfasten and beams of light pour over the dome of doom. Watch the destruction slowly turn over and over and over as it melts into thick. moist, fertile soil. Breathe out. Slowly.
Reach deep inside your heart and choose the seeds you wish to plant in this soil. They might be seeds of compassion, justice, passion, responsibility, determination, seeds of your longing for peace, or anything else you find worthy of planting. Know that only the seeds sewn in the service of the highest good flourish in this soil. As you plant your seeds feel a crystal clean cleansing rain wash over you, swelling all the seeds you planted with life-giving energy.
Breathe out and welcome a landscape bathed in sunlight, filled with the colors of peace, joy and all that your heart had planted.
Breathe out and open your eyes.
Create a peaceful, private space for your imagery work.
The most effective way to do your imagery is sitting upright
with your spine straight, arms at your side, legs uncrossed.
It's important to be consistent in your practice, to do each
exercise for cycles of twenty one days.
Imagery work is a dynamic process, a lived experience.
Notice how the images change in the course of the twenty one days.
Start each exercise with three breaths, starting with an out breath.
You reverse your habitual way of breathing signaling your unconscious
that you are reversing your habitual way of being in the world.
