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Cancer 6 Forgiveness and Letting Go of Guilt & Resentment

This session is more of a reflective talk than a visualization. It explores how guilt and resentment can interfere with healing by creating stress and emotional stagnation. You are invited to craft your own visualization or metaphor to help release these burdens. Letting go can open the way for greater emotional clarity and therapeutic benefit.A talk on how to create your own visualization. Photo thanks to Cottonbro at Pexels.

Cancer 4 Weathering the Radiation Storm

This creative visualization helps prepare your mind and body for radiation therapy by imagining your body as a landscape of neighborhoods—some filled with sturdy, well-built homes (healthy cells), and others with weakened, dilapidated structures (malignant cells). A powerful storm representing the radiation comes through, destroying only the damaged structures while leaving the strong ones intact. This metaphor helps reinforce the idea that radiation can be precise and effective. Use this visualization to boost resilience and reduce anxiety before treatment. Photo thanks to Elliot FZ at Pexels.

Cancer 3 Trusting Your Surgical Team

This creative visualization helps cultivate trust in your surgical team by imagining your surgeon as a perfectionist gardener caring for a vibrant garden—your body. With delicate precision, the surgeon prunes only what is necessary, allowing health and beauty to flourish. This visualization supports a sense of confidence, safety, and cooperation with the surgical process. Enjoy the imagery, and let it guide your mind toward healing. Frequent practice is encouraged until you can do it on your own and adapt it as needed. Photo thanks to Kampas Production at Pexels.

Cancer 2 Shutting Off the Blood Supply to Tumors

This visualization is for people with malignancies who want to take an active role in their therapy. You engage the mind-body connection by metaphorically calling in 'troops' to seek out and remove cancer cells. With a tone of playful command, you visualize immune cells surrounding, targeting, and shipping out the unwanted cells. A touch of humor encourages emotional lightness while fostering serious internal cooperation with medical treatment. Listeners are encouraged to repeat the visualization frequently until they can do it on their own, and to adapt it creatively to suit their own imagery and needs. Photo thanks to Clickerhappy at Pexels.

Cancer 1 Immunity Support Calling in the Troops

This visualization is for people with malignancies who want to take an active role in their therapy. You engage the mind-body connection by metaphorically calling in 'troops' to seek out and remove cancer cells. With a tone of playful command, you visualize immune cells surrounding, targeting, and shipping out the unwanted cells. A touch of humor encourages emotional lightness while fostering serious internal cooperation with medical treatment. Listeners are encouraged to repeat the visualization frequently until they can do it on their own, and to adapt it creatively to suit their own imagery and needs. Photo thanks to Michail Nilov at Pexels.

I Am The Captain of My Ship (18:45)

I am the Captain of My Ship: Gaining Perspective and Empowering Change. When you are hoping to bring more mindfulness into your life or you are facing life's challenges, you may repeat the following very empowering set of affirmations based in part on the de-identification exercise in The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli. Synthesis Center Press, 2010. Repeat these affirmations in a relaxed and open meditative state. Repeat this meditation in its full form once or twice a day for a couple of months. I hope you find it a useful cognitive therapy resource and mindfulness activity.<br>

Steed 20-Item Scale: Ability To Benefit From Visualization (20 minutes)

There are several kinds of meditation, including observational, concentration, and visualization. One's ability to benefit from creative visualization has been found to be determined by one's ability to be absorbed into imagined experience and to experience trance-like phenomena. This oral questionnaire contains items related to this absorbance and trance phenomena. Take it, score it, and see how likely you will benefit from guided meditations and creative visualizations. It's very interesting. <br><br>