- Are you facing a medical situation or crisis, and wish a physical healing? BODY
- Are you experiencing emotional pain and need relief; or remembering a past trauma and need comfort? MIND
- Are you on a spiritual journey, questioning your goals, your passion, your purpose? SPIRIT
WELCOME to the Synergy Seminars Home Page and your gateway to an exciting and transformational experience called GUIDED IMAGERY.
If you've been searching the web for Guided Imagery for whatever reason, we're glad that you've found us and we look forward to sharing all the rich possibilities for life change in this simple, but powerful process called imagery.
Synergy Seminars offers a variety of opportunities for you to learn about and experience for yourself the many benefits of imagery, such as breaking old habits and patterns, removal of prior trauma, self understanding, symptom removal, personal growth, stress reduction, pain control and even better communication skills in relationships.
Through one-day seminars, weekend retreats, books, CD's and even a full certification program that will train you to be a GUIDED IMAGERY THERAPIST, you can learn and experience a process that can literally change your life completely, and in a shorter period of time than you could imagine.
Guided imagery is as old as psychotherapy itself. Called by many different names - visualization, directed daydreams, active imagination - this process is a state of relaxation whereby we can bypass that censor we call the brain and go directly into the buried emotions of the unconscious. This place of healing can bring to the surface painful or negative issues that need to be seen, understood, or resolved, whether emotional or physical. The body cannot heal in chaos. Through this process of relaxation we provide our bodies the environment to balance and regain health and well-being
IntraPersonal Imagery tm (IPI)
The Journey into Self
After years of teaching and doing guided imagery as a therapeutic tool for healing the body/mind, we have finally given identity and birth to a name that most fully defines the Leviton approach to imagery and what we wish to accomplish through this method.
DIAGNOSIS: IPI is a relaxation method that enables the client to obtain instant access to feelings and the unconscious, bypassing that censor we call the mind. Trauma and pain can be identified, truth revealed about the past, false belief systems clarified, all without judgment. Understanding the past for the purpose of clarification and healing -- there is no bad truth.
UNDERSTANDING CAUSE & EFFECT: Why me, why this, why now? What is the meaning of these various experiences of my life? What is the message or leaning that I am to receive? Reconciling conflicts between the many subpersonalities or parts of me that I manage to externalize into outside relationships.
ACCEPTANCE & FORGIVENESS: Because there is no judgment, there can be an acceptance of reality, a "seeing" without distortion or denial, a forgiveness of self and others. Forgiveness does not imply condoning hurtful or unacceptable behavior; it is rather a releasing of the issue or trauma, choosing to not let it go on affecting one's life. To not forgive is to give total power over the rest of your life to the one who injured you.
HEALING: Of both the physical and the emotional -- changing perceptions and beliefs that have crippled us. The feeling good about self that sends forth a host of positive chemicals throughout the body that boost the immune system and enables a natural healing.
TRANSFORMATION: Enlightenment, empowerment, courage and strength by making contact with the spiritual dimensions of the true inner self and its connection with the GOD power of universal truth. Knowing that you and God are enough for any circumstance or situation.
What is Guided Imagery?
Simply put, Guided Imagery is a form of meditation. After a client is talked into a light, relaxed state, he is directed by a therapist to "see" a specific situation or circumstance in his mind, and then to allow the imagination to unfold a story. It's much like having a dream in an awake state. This story that is experienced is literally tapping into the subconscious, where much truth can be learned. Whether addressing issues of health, tapping into buried emotions of a past trauma or learning new insights into self, this process allows the body to heal, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
How is this process different from hypnosis?
Basically, the two processes are very similar. Guided Imagery, however, is a much lighter trance and allows you much more freedom to have an experience unique to you. Whereas hypnosis deals primarily with behavior modification with specific instructions and commands, imagery is more free flowing, affording new information and insight from the client, not the therapist.
What is IntraPersonal Imagery?
The Leviton's, after a combined 50 years of experience, have developed a specific approach to Guided Imagery called IntraPersonal Imagery. Taking basic Guided Imagery one step further, this process allows deeper insight into the experience with tools to interpret your experience, to learn the lessons the subconscious is trying to offer you.
How can imagery help me with a physical problem?
Since Guided Imagery is a process of getting in touch with our subconscious, you are literally tapping into the incredible ability of the body to heal itself. Through imagery, you can give the body permission to heal. Through an imagery, whether you are talking to a headache or preparing for a surgery, you can allow the body and the mind to speak to each other. This is where true healing begins.
Can Guided Imagery be combined with regular western medicine for healing?
Absolutely. Using imagery to talk to the body, you can tap into the subconscious with powerful suggestions to accept any medication or surgical procedure with less stress and far less side effects. Many studies at universities and medical centers have proven that using Guided Imagery before and during recovery from surgery finds patients using half the pain medication, leaving the hospital much sooner.
How can imagery help me with a relationship, be it a spouse, a friend, a family member?
Since imagery is a process of literally talking with our subconscious, using this process to find the reasons for conflict can be profound. Remember, in any relationship, we have the power only to change ourselves. The conflict between us is always the conflict within me.
Can imagery help with a phobia, such as a fear of flying, etc.?
A phobia, we believe is the subconscious reacting in an exaggerated way to a past trauma, or buried emotions from the past. Through imagery, going back to the original experience, you can heal the trauma, literally separate the emotions wrapped around the actual event, affording you the opportunity to relinquish the phobia.
Can imagery help me to lose weight?
There is an incredible body/mind connection. The body faithfully obeys our thoughts and affirmations. The old adage, "as we think, so we shall be," is definitely true. Imagery can be a powerful tool in talking to the body, allowing it to shed those extra pounds and also, to find out the reasons why our subconscious has programmed the need to have this extra weight. Begin with thinking and using the word "release", rather than "lose", for whatever we lose, we ALWAYS desperately try to find.
How does imagery work to address habit control?
Using hypnosis, affirmations can be given to the subconscious to stop a particular habit or addiction, replacing the need with something else, hopefully a good habit. Taking this one step further, imagery can supply the same affirmations AND delve into the subconscious to find out why we have this need or desire, and heal it on a deeper, permanent level.
Can imagery help with a drug or alcohol addiction?
Guided imagery offers a way to have instant access to our addiction, as well as the many traumas and issues that brought the addiction into our lives in the first place. Once we honor and talk to the addiction in a reasonable way, the addiction itself can give us good advice and direction on how to change our life. The objective is not to destroy the addiction, but to allow it to change. Giving this part of us permission to continue its original objective of protecting and comforting us, will provide new tools to cope with all life’s difficulties and struggles. Giving the addictive part the knowledge that there is nothing we can’t handle, transforms our addiction into inner power and strength.
Can imagery help in reducing some of the stress in my life?
Since imagery is the process of relaxing the mind and body to have a dream in an awake state, the state of just being there helps you relax and eliminate stress. It is scientifically proven that in this state of meditation, the blood pressure is lowered, the heart rate lowers similarly, and the immune system is increased. Further, in the imagery, an alpha trigger can be introduced, such as bringing your thumb and two fingers together, which can be used while in the awake state to literally bring the body back to this place of peace and relaxation.
How can I learn this process myself to help family and friends?
The Leviton's have developed a form of imagery called IntraPersonal Imagerytm, and offer a program to learn this process yourself. Through their certification program, you can be a part of this cutting edge technique for healing body, mind and spirit.
