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Week Three Discussion Board
1. Take part in one of the guided imagery exercises available to you under "Additional Resources"
(Stress, Pain Relief, or Sleep). Describe what the experience was like for you. Was there anything
you experienced that you were surprised by, liked or disliked, or any other feedback? Was it similar
to or different than the imagery you have experienced in class thus far?
Note: If you choose sleep
please use this exercise at bedtime and complete your DB post the following day, to truly
experience it the way it was meant to be experienced.
2. Summarize the assigned article, including its significance for clinical practice. Does it relate at
all to any of the contents of your Naparstek reading? How so?
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The guided imagery exercise I choose experience was one of the stress relief imagery
exercises. I specifically listened to the
Guided Imagery for a Peaceful Perspective.
When I
focus on imagery, I find it easier for me to focus when there is some kind of peaceful music
in the background or sounds of nature. I focus too much on outside noises and this helps me
focus in. I liked the music that was in the background of this exercise because it was not too
distracting. I was surprised how equally distributed the speed of the speaker was. There are
times where online videos for imagery the speaker talks too fast or too slow not placing
pauses where needed. I also found it beneficial that this imagery perspective went back and
forth from feeling the systems throughout your body but then also referring to our “peaceful
place” verses focusing on one or the other. I was able to focus and home in on this peaceful
place that I had created in my mind. I pictured myself laying in a hammock looking at the sun
beaming down. It was almost like I was able to feel the sun and the small breeze going by
that was rustling the fall leaves. There are times that I feel more relaxed during imagery but
then when it is completed those feelings do not stay. I think being able to be in my own space
and do this on my own time it aided in my body being able to keep its relaxation feeling after
the video had completed. This exercise is definitely similar to the ones that we do at the end
of class. However, when we are in class, I always feel those exercise are about eight to ten
minutes but feel longer; this particular example was the opposite it was seventeen minutes
long, but it went by so quickly. Which is not necessarily a bad detail, just a very interesting
outlook on perspective.
Throughout the reading of the article
The Image in Medicine: Notes of a Clinician
in addition
to the book
Staying Well With Guided Imagery
by Naparstek I found some common
similarities. Within chapter 3 of Naparstek the book went through many different modalities
of imagery. Each of these samples had some commonalities. Each of the samples started with
the saying “To begin with, see if you can
position yourself as comfortably as you can, shifting
your weight so that you’re allowing your body to be fully supported by your chair or couch or
whatever is supporting you. Try to arrange it so that your head, neck, and spine are straight.
And taking a deep, full, cleansing breath ... inhaling as fully as you can ... breathing deep into
the belly if you can ... and breathing all the way out” ( Naparstek, 1994). The book chapter
gave many examples whereas the article explained more in detail about how these exercises
function and are successful. The article mentions that “to the imagination, operates by a
different set of laws than those that apply to physical objects, and to understand it’s healing
power, one must examine it in its own right rather than fit it to a framework constructed to
explain the properties of physical objects” (Epstein, 1986). I choose this quote because during
our reading it mentioned that you cannot force these examples to work but rather let them
come into your mind. Details such as lighting, positioning, and breathing all create a space
for the mind to actively engage but these specific imagery exercises are created, and structure
is made for the mind to create its own images. From the examples it seems the mind takes
more efforts to analyze mental processes that induce physiological mechanisms that link the
body and mind. For example, cellular imagery takes more practice as it is not like the
imagery process for creating a peaceful environment to help with emotions such as anxiety,
stress and other heavy feelings. Both the article and the book chapters have mentions of
clinical vignettes. The similarities being certain imagery works that can aid individuals who
have tried other forms of conventional medication or medical treatments. An example I tried
from the book chapter was
Transforming an Issue Located in the Body.
I used this example to
focus in on pain located within the body. This modality was harder for me than the “peaceful
place” imagery. I believe with practice both emotional and physical based imagery can help
in clinical practice for a multitude of situations. These readings helped link the bridge to one
another.
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