An author’s experience with guided visualisation:

I have never written guided visualisations before; I have only ever spoken them aloud for a friend or a colleague. They can be fantastic tools for promoting relaxation and overall well being but can also be taken to other levels and are useful for all manner of purposes including problem solving, healing and conflict management.

So here is a short and simple visualisation that can be adapted to suit your own imagery and personal pantheon. It can be memorized or recorded and played back and can be used as a template for expansion and evolution. Enjoy.

You stand facing a crowded room. All is chaotic and dark and monochrome. There seems to be no colour as you scan the surroundings. The voices are loud and jumbled together. You cannot make sense of any of the conversations and as you watch you realise that no one actually sees you.

You turn your back on the crowd and see before you an old door. It seems out of place for it does not match the style of the room. With the noise carrying on in the background you reach for the antique handle and gently open the door.

As the door opens you start to catch glimpses of sunlight through the gap by the hinges. There flows through a delicious scent of fresh flowers and the air coming through is clean and pure and cooling to your face.

You open the door further and gasp in awe at the landscape that unfolds before you. Rolling meadows and fragrant grass expand to a perfect horizon and a beautifully stone laid path stretches toward a gazebo fabricated from the most perfect and beautiful marble that you have ever seen.

You step forward from the dark black and white room onto the path before you and marvel at the colours and the scents that feel the air. The noise behind you starts to fade and as you take further steps the voices become dimmer and dimmer and the door to this wondrous landscape gently shuts behind you with a subtle click. The voices are silenced.

You follow the path and marvel at the flowers that line the way. The sky above is cloudless and exudes a glowing blue that comforts and refreshes. The air is crisp and fresh and the breeze carries with it delicious warmth and the fragrance of eternal blossoms.

You walk on and follow the route that the path is kindly showing you. You arrive at the gazebo and place your hands on the marble pillars that surround a circular area decorated with the most beautiful mosaic. The pillars are smooth as silk and your hands feel the exquisite coolness of perfect marble.

You enter the gazebo and sit upon a chair that rests exactly in the centre. It is a familiar chair and one that offers rest, comfort and overwhelming peace.

Here you sit in perfect safety and in perfect comfort and allow each and every one of your limbs and joints and muscles and cells to relax and breath and rest. You gaze into the landscape that stretches for an eternity before you and as you do so your mind expands and stretches to fill this landscape with your peace, your comfort and your absolute joy.

This is your place. You can come here at any time you wish. Here you are safe. Here you are protected. Here you are at peace and here you are whole and happy and healthy. This is your place. This is you.

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