Guided Imagery Meditation (Pathworkings)

Guided imagery meditation is a form of meditation that draws upon the power of guided imagery to help you enter into a state of deep relaxation and mental stillness. It is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to eliminate stress and to experience total inner peace.  Your mind is your most powerful tool for achieving a state of relaxation and inner stillness and imagery is the language that your mind uses to communicate with your body. When you picture stressful or negative events in your mind, your body will react to those ideas and you will feel stressed. If you imagine soothing, joyful experiences, your entire body responds by becoming relaxed and by releasing natural chemicals that make you feel more positive. As you listen to a guided imagery meditation, you will be guided to visualize scenes that have a deeply calming effect on your body, your mind, and your entire nervous system. A number of wonderful health benefits result from this experience. For example, your muscles loosen up and relax, your heart rate and blood pressure stabilize, the function of your immune system improves, your emotions settle, and your whole outlook becomes more serene.

With guided imagery meditation, we simply replace the use of a repetitive mantra with a gentle stream of positive mental images. These visualizations work in two ways:

1. They keep your mind engaged so that you are not chewing on all the typical day to day thoughts that usually fill your head. This gives your mind the opportunity to take a much needed break and to become calm.

2. These visualizations are of inherently peaceful scenarios, so by their very nature they tend to give rise to feelings of relaxation, peace, and a sense of “inner spaciousness” and freedom. The experience can be quite blissful!...read more>>>...