Author and therapeutic play practitioner Amanda Seyderhelm shares the 6 steps to delivering a creative visualisation, that uses your natural power of imagination to help your child relax and be happy.
I work as a therapeutic play practitioner for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. When my clients are stuck, I write creative visualisations to help them visualise their desired outcome.
Creative visualisation is a technique that uses our natural power of imagination to create what we want in life. The concept underlies positive thinking, and originated in the US within the New Thought Movement.
In this article, I'm going to give you the 6 point process I use for a creative visualisation. The key is to start using your creative imagination in a more conscious way to create what a child wants to manifest - security, relaxation, happiness - ask your child.
The six steps to creating a visualisation
Each creative visualisation is unique but the formula is the same: imagine you are in your desired condition - (what do you want?), and tell yourself (affirm) that you are.
1. Get Comfortable
Find a quiet space where you will not be distracted and can focus on getting relaxed. Make sure there is no noise, and you can darken the room by either turning off the lights or blacking out any windows.
2. Close Your Eyes and Relax
Close your eyes to keep yourself from focusing on what is in the room. Relax your body completely from head to toe, breathing in deeply, and letting go fully after each part of your body relaxes.
3. Picture the Achievement of Your Goal
Picture the goal you would like to achieve. By combining right-brain images with left-brain affirmations you will create dynamically powerful results. For one of my clients I chose the concept of a worry well set within a sanctuary, a safe space where she could let go of her worries and be inspired to be in a space of her own. Your visualisation should be vivid so that they you imagine yourself being there. Use all five senses, and include complementary colours red/green and blue/orange to make the images more vivid.
4. Keep the Images Fresh in Your Mind
Repeat the creative visualisation if you feel yourself being negative. The visualisation is completed by the ‘coming out‘ process which allows you to come back into the room and into full consciousness.
5. Stay Positive
Affirmations are one of the most important elements of creative visualisation. To affirm literally means “to make firm”. It is a way of “making firm” that which you are imagining, and it must be stated in the present. Write your affirmations down and repeat them regularly.
6. Remain Open
Be open to new ideas. New opportunities are more likely to arise if you remain open.
I hope this article has inspired you to start using your own creative visualisations. I’d really like to know what you’ve most gained from the information I’ve shared, so PLEASE share your feedback (or questions) in the comments box below.
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Amanda Seyderhelm
21 July 2013
Amanda Seyderhelm is an award-winning publisher, creative arts facilitator, therapeutic play practitioner, and author of Isaac and the Red Jumper, for bereaved children, now recommended by The American Cancer Society. Her eclectic approach to writing and creativity incorporates her vast professional experience in the publishing industry and the educational sector along with more than ten years of study and practice of eastern spirituality. Through her Agency, HARK, her writing and initiatives have produced a list of self-help and mind-body-spirit authors published by major publishers, and creative workshops to help children find their voice. Amanda donates 10% of all her publishing income to the charity Treetops Hospice because they nursed her mother at home with dignity and respect.
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