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visualizations are one of my more effective meditation tools. visualizations are quite easy --verily instinctive-- for me. i think with my senses then translate those senses to words when i need to communicate with others. translating words between spoken languages is easy schmeezy compared to translating sensory input to words.
recent weeks find me wishing to pick up where i left off back in march, 2020 in finding mask free, up close and personal therapy support for my little ship of fools. we have come a long way since the fatal car wreck took mommy and daddy from us in fall, 2019. i'm not so confident of which direction(s?) that long way has taken us. nor am i confident mask free, up close and personal support is available. covidic weirds still seem to emerge in unpredictable places and forms. i'm still dissociating into social anxiety flight mode when slapped by unexpected mandates.
i'm pulling one of my longest running visualizations out of the psychic mothballs for this task. a lion-tamer. when my psycho weirds present, i imagine myself in a circle of lions, snapping my whip to bring savage beasts into line.
anybody else use visualization as a therapy tool?
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
For example, that really helped on a doctoral exam question that stumped me about one of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s poems. I got back to remembering the answer when I recalled that the poem is shaped in the form of a sock on someone’s foot and pictured it in my mind, bringing it all back not via words but via shape.
I took that to my PTSD therapy about that same time. It helped me finally describe to my therapist how a military squad under Urugua's dictatorship put a pistol to my head and pulled the trigger twice. He never explained it before, during, or after, it was action without words. Only visualization worked to address it in therapy.
but that little trick of visualizing pages of the book(s) i am being tested on works like a charm for me. a written letter is a graphic symbol, after all. that little trick might even be the entire reason i am so good at taking written exams. on psych evaluations, i can sometimes tell you which books the person who wrote the evaluation studied. i reckon i oughta put that in the past tense. i haven't kept up with the latest greatest psych theories since the 80's when it became evident my constant self-help intake was doing more harm than good. self-help authors are not famous for agreeing with one another. having them arguing in my head was/is counter-productive to the extreme. expert wars?