{"id":944,"date":"2009-04-22T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativityandwellness.wordpress.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-04-22T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:57:50","slug":"guided-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Guided Imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of my readers know I write a new post for this blog once a week. Last\u00a0night I had the privilege\u00a0of leading\u00a0a workshop on &#8220;Guided Imagery for Comfort and Inspiration&#8221; to a courageous group of women survivors. Everyone had come\u00a0after\u00a0a long day of commuting, work and other responsibilities. I first taught the group how to release the tensions from their day. Then I explained that in guided imagery meditation the practitioner is in complete control. She\u00a0can use all of her senses&#8211;touch, smell, taste, sound, intuition as well as the visual sense, in meditation. I shared the most important piece of holistic advice I\u00a0know,\u00a0which is to\u00a0let go of \u00a0judgement of self and of others.\u00a0Most of the\u00a0rapt audience readily accepted the option of not editing their own imaginations. Others learned at the end of the workshop about this benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Each particpant\u00a0had an opportunity to experience three unique guided meditations that I had created just for them. As the program\u00a0drew to a close\u00a0I asked\u00a0the group to\u00a0say one word out-loud that described what they would take away from the workshop. Words like &#8220;peace,&#8221; &#8220;hope,&#8221; and &#8220;love,&#8221; quietly tumbled out of soft mouths. Other words such as &#8220;guidance,&#8221; &#8220;quiet,&#8221; &#8220;faith,&#8221; and &#8220;joy&#8221; were gently added to the mix. May we all feel at one with these qualities in our lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Creativity and wellness message for today: Let your own inner\u00a0guidance lead you to your individual place of comfort and inspiration.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of my readers know I write a new post for this blog once a week. Last\u00a0night I had the privilege\u00a0of leading\u00a0a workshop on &#8220;Guided Imagery for Comfort and Inspiration&#8221; to a courageous group of women survivors. Everyone had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?p=944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[92,167],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-wellness","tag-guided-imagery","tag-survivors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}