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Monday, April 13, 2009
Tension and Relaxation Exercise: Creating Your Special Place
In creating your special place you will be making a refuge for relaxation and guidance. This place can be indoors or out. When structuring your place, follow these few guidelines: Allow a private entry into your place. Make it peaceful, comfortable, and safe. Fill your place with sensuous detail. Create a middle ground, foreground, and background. Allow room for an inner guide or other person to be there with you comfortably. A special place might be at the end of a path that leads to a pond. Grass grows under your feet, the pond is about thirty yards away, and mountains are in the distance. You can feel the coolness of the air in this shady spot. The mockingbird is singing. The sun is bright on the pond. The honeysuckle’s pungent odor attracts the bee buzzing over the flowers with their sweet nectar. Or your special place might be a sparkling clean kitchen, with cinnamon buns baking in the oven. Through the kitchen window you can see fields of yellow wheat. A...
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