Guided Visualizations
“Abstract Feeling
Drawing"
Make yourself
comfortable in the chair. Place both
feet flat on the ground and rest your hands in your lap.
If you feel
comfortable, you can close your eyes - this may help you to focus easier.
Take a slow, deep, cleansing breath
in through your nose.
Completely exhale slowly through your
mouth.
(repeat the inhale and exhale three
times)
Pay attention
to your body. Notice any emotions that
may be most prominent. Is there any one
feeling that is louder than the other feelings you are experiencing right now? Give that feeling your full attention.
Take a slow, deep, cleansing breath
in through your nose.
Completely exhale slowly through your
mouth.
What color
is that feeling? Is it a light or dark color? (pause) I is a bright color or a
muted color?
Is your feeling a solid color is it patterned?
(pause)
Allow that feeling-color
to fill your torso. (pause)
Allow that color now to fill up you arms (pause)
your legs (pause) and even your head. Even if this is a scary or uncomfortable
emotion – feel it.
Know you are
safe here. Feel the full intensity of
this emotion.
Take a slow, deep, cleansing breath in
through your nose.
Completely exhale slowly through your
mouth.
Now, gather your
feeling color back into your center, and allow it to take on a shape. What shape is it? (pause) Does this shape
have smooth or sharp edges? (pause) Is
this feeling-shape sationary or is it moving? (pause)
Take a slow, deep, cleansing breath in
through your nose.
Completely exhale
slowly through your mouth.
You are
going to come back to this room now.
When you are ready, and in your own time, open your eyes.
Look at the
colors laid out on the table. Find the
color that represents your emotion, and use it to draw the shape that you saw.
Using lines,
shapes and colors, draw the color and the shape that you saw during your
visualization.”
