The Journey Inward
Guided Imagery
Do you have a vision of the person you’d like to be, but she feels so far away from who you are now?
Your vision is the first step on the exciting journey toward her.
Personal imagery,
combined with the senses,
is your roadmap.
Say yes to your imagination, and take another step toward your own uniqueness and the possibilities within. Whether you desire creative inspiration, more motivation, helpful habits, calmness, Guided Imagery can help you take the first steps forward on your journey.
Traveling unfamiliar territory can feel uncomfortable, even perilous, but with Guided Imagery, it’s safe and effective.
What is Guided Imagery?
Guided Imagery is a safe and easy method that will help you embrace the power of imagination and your intuition. With calm relaxation, insightful information, ideas for results and solutions you are seeking become available. When you connect your mind and body using gentle processes that combine images with the senses, relaxation techniques, artistic expression, and storytelling, new avenues open up for a path forward into your future with confident inner knowing.
Each personalized session will be designed with your unique needs & desires in mind. While in a relaxed state, new information becomes available, bypassing the everyday mind to new answers hidden in the subconscious mind within.
Begin your journey with Guided Imagery where your destination will begin to appear.
Susan began her journey with a desire to lose weight.
Susan’s imagery, a can of diet coke, symbolized the belief that refills and low-cal convenient foods would bring success for weight loss and how she felt about herself. With that false belief, her goal for losing weight wasn’t happening. She realized that “filling up” is not the same as “fueling up” with better choices for herself. In that moment, self acceptance led to her return to painting and writing a memoir which gave her energy and fulfillment, along with weight loss and better food choices.
Aimee was looking for direction in her creative endeavors.
Aimee felt like something was holding her back from her creative life. Her disappointing book launch left her questioning everything. Her symbology, a stone slab table, showed her that sacrifice is letting go of old beliefs about how things “should” be. Her large table imagery reminded her of an altar for creativity. “Let go of expectations, this is your spot!” was the message. That permission from her higher mind motivated her to set up an art space and begin new creative projects.
“I feel inspired and encouraged to explore the possibilities from our session together.”
“It was very beneficial to receive the images, symbols, and notions that came up in the journey. I was comforted, felt less anxiety, and nourished. Thank you Catherine for a powerful experience that opened up stuck doors into a rich visual and spiritual journey.” -H.P.
Frequently Asked Questions
You will be provided a link to connect via an online video connection on Zoom.
For your hypnosis session, find a comfortable meditative place to sit where you can see your computer screen and hear me speak.
We will discuss what’s not working in your life, and how you want it to be. I then explain what to expect during your session. (Image Hypnosis is approximately 40 minutes of the first session).
I will be your Practitioner from start to finish. I am Client-centered, choosing the techniques best suited to your situation. I look forward to speaking with you and assisting you.
Cancellations are subject to a $25.00 processing fee and must be requested by email prior to session. Refund will be issued within one week.
Image Hynpsis is purposeful imagination along with the senses to achieve a specific positive goal or outcome. Studies using fMRI’s show that whether a subject actually experiences something or only imagines it, the brain activity recorded by the fMRI is the same.
Guided Imagery - is visual and sensory-oriented. The practitioner guides you through a visual journey for a specific purpose (such as relaxation, health, performance, emotional release) using all the senses: imagined sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste).
Interactive Guided Imagery™ - Is a powerful form of Guided Imagery with a non- judgmental communications component. The pace and direction of the session ensures the experience has personal meaning for the client.
Hypnosis - The practitioner speaks specific words and phrases to suggest a positive outcome. Imagery is often used within and in conjunction with hypnosis.
No. Your goal is discussed and agreed upon prior to imagery. Your imagery is individualized for you and your specific request. During the session you have full awareness. The subconscious mind is your protector. You will take only positive suggestions that you morally and intellectually agree with.
Yes. All religions are compatible with image hypnosis and guided imagery as it is simply using the imagination for a positive result.
All religious groups (with the exception of Seventh Day Adventists and Christian Scientists) accept hypnosis as a therapeutic tool. Some faiths even use a form of self-hypnosis (such as meditation) as part of their rituals.
That is OK! Imagery is perceived by using the senses in a multitude of ways and is not limited to seeing an image.
Hypnosis is a natural, relaxed state of inner-focused attention. Your conscious mind relaxes and your subconscious mind becomes open to positive suggestions. We go ‘in and out’ of hypnosis many times during the day, especially right before falling asleep and upon waking in the morning. We are often in a state similar to ‘hypnosis’ while we watch a movie or drive a car. (Have you ever arrived at your destination and forgotten most of the drive home? Or become so involved in a movie that your body responds physiologically to it though it’s not ‘real?’) These are subtle forms of hypnosis. While stage hypnosis is used for entertainment, therapeutic hypnosis, called hypnotherapy, is used to assist a person toward a desired goal.
No. This method is for people from all walks in life including sports, corporate positions, writers, teachers, therapists, moms, entrepreneurs, and artists . Art is there for those who want to explore that aspect but is not required for successful, effective results.
Some information in the above FAQs include adaptations from teachings at HypnosisSolutions.net and the Academy for Guided Imagery.