Guided Imagery: A Source of Stress Reduction for Pastors

Have you tried meditation, reflection, contemplation, rumination, counseling, therapy, zoning in or zoning out, and you still are not able to enjoy peaceful harmony in your life? Well, this book is about a technique called Guided Imagery. The practice of Guided Imagery can help one to reduce the onset of, and to change the outcomes of life''''s stressors by imparting a means to learn new coping skills, and enable the individual to regain power by taking a proactive rather than a "wait and see" approach to the issues of life. Guided Imagery can be likened to taking off one''s rose-colored glasses and seeing clearly for the very first time. As you read this book, you will see how Guided Imagery can provide a way to "refocus, regroup and recommit" pent-up energies in one''s life toward positive outcomes and changes. The technique of Guided Imagery examines life''s situations that have already occurred, or will occur, and uses them for what they really are, or can be. In other words, taking the stumbling blocks that may make you fall into stepping stones of opportunity for healing and growth. Guided Imagery is a way of seeing, and reentering a time or place that has caused you harm, and uncovering hidden or misunderstood feelings and emotions but in a positive, and curative manner. Guided Imagery offers its reader an invitation to come and to see, and not only to see but to also enter into that vision or that experience as an active participant, not as someone who has been hypnotized. Guided Imagery can enable one to see, to feel and to experience through personal feelings and emotions, a newness and freshness, and to learn from it, to be healed by it, and to overcome through its positiveuse and reflection. Guided Imagery is an empowerment that speaks to the tripartite being of man - spirit, soul and body to come together for healing of the whole person. There are within each of us, written into our members, all of our life''s experience