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Section 14
Track #14: See it! Believe it! Get it!

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Note-Taking Exercise

Write a statement of your visualization.  I want….

How should you handle any doubts or contradictory thoughts that arise during your Creative Visualization?

What five points are mentioned regarding maintaining a light, gentle, and positive ?
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Additional Meditations
To complement the Relaxation Exercises provided on the CD, here are two additional exercises you might consider using.

Glowing Spheres - Opening the Energy Centers
This is a meditation for healing and for getting your energy flowing. It is an excellent one to do in the morning when you first wake up, or at the beginning of any meditation period, or anytime you want to be relaxed and refreshed:

Lie down on your back with arms at your sides or with hands clasped on your stomach. Close your eyes, relax and breathe gently, deeply and slowly.

Imagine that there is a glowing sphere of golden light surrounding the top of your head. Breathe deeply and slowly in and out five times while you keep your attention on the sphere of light, feeling it radiate from the top of your head.

Now allow your attention to move down to your throat. Again imagine a golden sphere of light emanating from your throat area. Breathe slowly in and out five times with your attention on this light.

Allow your attention to move down to the center of your chest. Once again imagine the golden light, radiating from the center of your chest. Again take five deep breaths, as you feel the energy expanding more and more.

Next put your attention on your solar plexus; visualize the sphere of golden light all around your midsection. Breathe into it slowly, five times.

Now visualize the light glowing in and around your pelvic area. Again take five deep breaths, feeling the light energy radiating and expanding.

Finally, visualize the glowing sphere of light around your feet, and breathe into it five more times.

Now imagine all six of the spheres of light glowing at once so that your body is like a strand of jewels, radiating energy.

Breathe deeply, and as you exhale, imagine energy flowing down along the outside of the left side of your body from the top of your head to your feet. As you inhale, imagine it flowing up along the right side of your body to the top of your head. Circulate it around your body this way three times.

Then visualize the flow of energy going from the top of your head down along the front of your body to your feet as you slowly exhale. As you inhale, feel it flow up along the back of your body to the top of your head. Circulate the flow in this direction three times.

Now imagine that the energy is gathering at your feet, and let it flow slowly up through the center of your body fro your feet to your head, radiating from the top of your head like a fountain of light, then flowing back down the outside of your body to your feet. Repeat this several times if you wish.

When you finish this meditation you will be deeply relaxed, yet energized and exhilarated.

Pink Bubble Exercise
This meditation is simple and wonderfully effective.
Sit or lie down comfortably, close your eyes and breathe deeply, slowly, and naturally. Gradually relax deeper and deeper.

Imagine something that you would like to manifest. Imagine that it has already happened. Picture it as clearly as possible in your mind.

Now in your mind’s eye surround your fantasy with a pink bubble; put your goal inside the bubble. Pink is the color asso­ciated with the heart, and if this color vibration surrounds whatever you visualize, it will bring to you only that which is in perfect affinity with your being.

The third step is to let go of the bubble and imagine it floating off into the universe, still containing your vision. This symbolized that you are emotionally “letting go” of it. Now it is free to float around in the universe, attracting and gathering energy for its manifestation.

There is nothing more you need to do.

Transcript of Track 14

Here are the steps in the “See it! Believe it! Get it!” stress reduction exercise.

First, think of something you want to have happen. If you recall, stating what you want to have happen is the first step in solution-focused thinking, followed by how will I make it happen, what resources do I have, and what else may result from getting what I want.  It might be an object you would like to have, an event you’d like to have happen, a situation in which you’d like to find yourself in, or some circumstance in your life which you’d like to improve. 

Based on my five examples of possible stressors given in Track 1, you might imagine some form of one of the following:

Hester happily participates in the entire Bingo activity, one of her favorite activities.  Her shower schedule has been changed, and the CNA takes her for her shower as Bingo is ending. 

Or, you walk past Effie’s room, and you can see her winding the yarn, given to her by her CNA Wendy.

Or, Mary was transported to the Bible study, and you see her contently participating in singing a religious song. 

Or, you see Harry alert and involved in your Men’s Discussion Group, because his medication, which makes him drowsy, is now given to him after the group is over.

Or when you came to get Helen for the weekly Crafts session, one of Helen’s favorite  activities, she was in her room.  Helen’s Speech Therapy had been changed, so Speech does not prevent her from attending her favorite activity.

Now  let’s prepare for your visualization. As with the other exercises in this CD set, get into a comfortable position. Relax  your body completely.  Starting from your toes and moving up to your scalp, think of relaxing each muscle in your body in turn, letting all tension flow our of your body. Breathe deeply and slowly, from your stomach. Count     down slowly from 10 to 1, feel­ing yourself getting more deeply relaxed with each count.

10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

When you feel deeply relaxed, start to imagine the thing you want exactly as you would like it. If it is an object, imag­ine yourself with the object, using it, admiring it, enjoying it, showing it to friends.

If it is a situation or event, as with my 5 examples, imagine yourself there and everything happening just as you want it to. You may imagine what people are saying, or any details that make it more real to you.

When you hear the musical tone, turn the CD player off to really expand upon imagining what it is that you want.  You may take a relatively short time or several minutes to imagine this — whatever feels best to you at this time.  Have fun with it. It should be a thoroughly enjoyable experience, like a child daydreaming about what he or she wants for his or her birthday.  MUSIC

Now keeping the idea or image still in your mind, mentally make some very positive, affirmative statements like we discussesd on Track 11 to yourself aloud or silently, as you prefer regarding your positive visualization, such as:

 “I see Wendy, the CNA, starting the yarn winding project with Effie that was left in the bag in her room

If doubts or contradictory thoughts arise, like “Wendy, the CNA will never give Effie the yarn winding project,” don’t resist them or try to prevent them. This will tend to give your doubts and contradictory thoughts  a power they don’t otherwise have.  And you have slid from solution-focused thinking to problem-focused thinking. Just let your doubts and contradictory thoughts flow through your consciousness, and return to your positive statement and positive image.

Create an idea or mental picture of the object or situation, see if you can maintain a positive focus, exactly as you want it. Think of it in the present tense as already existing the way you want it to be. Picture yourself having the situation as you desire it, now. Include as many details as you can, as long as you maintain a positive focus. 

If doubts and contradictory thoughts creep in again, remove some of the details, and perhaps just focus on a white light around the staff member, or a white light around the resident; or if you need less detail to maintain a positive focus, envision a white light over your facility.

You may wish to make an actual physical picture of what you want to have happen as well, by making a line-drawing with felt markers, a scrapbook, or a collage.

If it feels right, bring your idea or mental picture to mind often, both in quiet mediation periods, and also casually throughout your day when you happen to think of it. In this way it becomes an integrated part of your life, it becomes more of a reality for you, and you project it more successfully.

The next point is extremely subtle, but extraordinarily key.  Focus on what you want to have happen clearly, however focus on it in a light, gentle, and positive way.  Remember you are generating positive energy.  It is extremely important not to feel like you are striving too hard for it or putting an excessive amount of energy into it.  By striving or struggling this will tend to hin­der rather than help.  So as you are creating your visualization, be aware of the energy you are generating.  Think of yourself as suggesting to the universe that this certain thing is what you would like to have happen, or something better.  However, you are not angrily demanding, whining, crying, or pleading for what you want to have happen.

In summary, this two CD set has proposed the basic concept of shifting from a problem focus of what is the problem, why do I have this problem, who is at fault, and what else will go wrong; to solution focused thoughts of what do I want more of, how can I get this, what resources do I have, and what is another result of my getting what I want.  The following stress reduction topics have been expanded upon to facilitate your implementation of shifting from problem focused thoughts to solution focused thoughts.  These topics were:  The Activity Director Pressure Cooker, Your Quest for Calm, Oprah’s Method, Getting Unstuck from your Stress, How to Pivot to the Positive, Defusing 6 D’s in your department, Instant calm- 6 second skill, How to Lose your baggage, Acting As-If, Have presence of mind, Words that Heal, finding the “little sun” inside of you, 4 keys to t.r.u.e. calm, and See It!  Believe it!  Get it!

It is hoped that you will select the tracks in this two-CD set that are most meaningful to you, and play them often.  Clearly, one playing of a track will probably do little to reduce your stress.  As time goes on, you may find that different tracks are appealing to you, that were not in the past.  We have given you our best regarding stress reduction techniques, in this course.  I hope that should you decide to set stress reduction in the facility as a priority in your life, these tools will become a valuable asset to you.