meditaion and imagery

Singapore 2016

Youcan not

hopewithout

imagination

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hopewith

imagination

QuotesQuotes

• "If you can imagine and dream you can "If you can imagine and dream you can also Do it” Walt Disneyalso Do it” Walt Disney

• "Imagination is better than "Imagination is better than knowledge”knowledge”Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein

• ““The imagination rules the world”The imagination rules the world”Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte

Mindfulness

“When we let go of our thoughts, we may experience”:

1. LOVE

2. Happiness

3. Calmness

The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)

From neuroimaging and subjective descriptions, the PCC has been found to be activated during self-related thinking and deactivated during meditation

Mindfulness is the practice of bringing one's attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the practice of meditation.

The term "mindfulness" is a translation of the Pali-term, which is a significant element of some Buddhist traditions. The popular mindfulness movement was initiated by Jhon Kabat-Zinn.

Studies have also shown that rumination and worry contribute to mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and that mindfulness-based interventions are effective in the reduction of both rumination and worry.

John Kabat-Zinn and MBSR

In 1979, John Kabat-Zinn founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program at the University of Massachusetts to treat the chronically ill.

This program sparked the application of mindfulness ideas and practices in Medicine for the treatment of a variety of conditions in both healthy and unhealthy people.

MBSR and similar programs are now widely applied in schools, prisons, hospitals, veterans centers, and other environments.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)

MBCT is a psychological therapy designed to aid in preventing the relapse of depression, specifically in individuals with Major depressive disorder (MDD).

It uses traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) methods and adds in newer psychological strategies such as mindfulness and mindfulness meditation.

Cognitive methods can include educating the participant about depression.

Mindfulness and mindfulness meditation, focus on becoming aware of all incoming thoughts and feelings and accepting them, but not attaching or reacting to them.

MBCT

Research supports the effects of MBCT in people who have been depressed three or more times and demonstrates reduced relapse rates by 50%

Awareness- paying attention

Present experience-

moment by moment

Acceptance

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is an approach to psychological intervention defined in terms of certain theoretical processes, not a specific technology.

In theoretical and process terms we can define ACT as a psychological intervention based on modern behavioral psychology, including Relational Frame Theory, that applies mindfulness and acceptance processes, and commitment and behavior change processes, to the creation of psychological flexibility.

Relaxationand Meditation-

techniques• Breathing:• Counting• Focusing• Deep

• Mindfulness Meditation:• Focusing in the here and now• Gazing at an Object

• Thought Stopping• Body Scan• Autogenic Breathing (warmth &

heaviness).

Awareness Light trance

modarate deep

sleep

imagery

Imagery

Simple Definition of imagery:

•: pictures or photographs

•: language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind

•: pictures of people or things in a work of art

Source: Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary

Imagery-definition

means to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

Usually it is thought that imagery makes use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds.

The word imagery is associated with mental pictures. However, this idea is but partially correct.

Imagery, to be realistic, turns out to be more complex than just a picture.

http://literarydevices.net/imagery/

Imagination-definition

The power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images (reproductive imagination) or of recombining former experiences in the creation of new images directed at a specific goal or aiding in the solution of problems (creative imagination).

www.dictionary.com

Guided Imagery-definition *

Guided imagery is a mind-body intervention by which a trained practitioner or teacher helps a participant or patient to evoke and generate mental images that simulate or re-create the sensory perception of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, movements, and images associated with touch, such as texture, temperature, and pressure, as well as imaginative or mental content that the participant or patient experiences as defying conventional sensory categories, and that may precipitate strong emotions or feelings in the absence of the stimuli to which correlating sensory receptors are receptive.

The practitioner or teacher may facilitate this process in person to an individual or a group. Alternatively, the participant or patient may follow guidance provided by a sound recording, video, or audiovisual media comprising spoken instruction that may be accompanied by music or sound.

* Wikipedia

Imagery-Steps

• Preparation• Creating atmosphere• Comfortable position• Eye fixation• Relaxation/meditation• Treatment• Post hypnotic

suggestions• Ending• Sharing

Inductions• PMR-Jacobson• Body scan• Changing colors• Moving a band• Breathing• Here and now• Dropping a coin or

pencil• Gazing on an object• Thought stopping• Closing the gates.

Deepening techniques

• Counting• Sunset• Stairs• Elevator• Stepping down from a hill• Motor techniques: heavy hand, hands getting

close, dropping a coin, etc.

Imagery:Guided and

Hypnotherapy

• Safe/Relaxing Place• Anchoring• Collecting sea

shells• Sailing• Clouds.

Future progression/projection

• TV• Theater• Mirror• Fortune teller• Time tunnel.

Techniques-Past

• TV• Theater• Meeting the child• Meeting the

parent• Album-abloom• Stairs.

MetaphorsVisualizing

HealthChanging Colors

The River

Imagery techniques

The Indian Reservation and the Trees

Imagery techniques

Techniques

• The house metaphor

•Hot air balloon

Other techniques

• Butterfly• Bird in a cage• Resource market• The happiness events of

childhood• Forgiveness

Distancing techniques

• Cloud•Wave• Balloon• Leaf•My friends john• Camera zoom• Drawer• Blackboard

Children and adolescents

• Safe/favorite place• Animal metaphors• Favorite animal• Favorite activity• Clouds• Favorite movie• Hero• Computer game• Anagram• Metaphors• Story or ferry tales

Future-past progression/projection

Age regression and schema focusing

Safe place and Distancing

Stories and metaphors

Dissociation between past and present

Desensitization

Breaking the continuation of automatic behavior

Aversion

Positive reinforcement

HypnoanalysisPsychodynamic techniques

• Cloud• Crystal ball• Anagram• TV• Theater• Old pictures• Motoric system:

Pendulum Finger signaling Automatic writing.

Resistance techniques

• The wall

• Letting of habits/ the mirror

• Inner guide• Aversion• Reframing.

Milton H. Erickson

Where classical hypnosis is authoritative and direct and often encounters resistance in the subject, Erickson's approach is permissive, and indirect.

He used metaphors and stories in his work.

Indirect techniques

Problem-Issue

MetaphorSolution

Solution

Recommended books-Relaxation and Imagery

Important points• Utilization• Yes set• Verbal-Nonverbal-Paraverbal• Tests: Semaphore, Lemmon• Pendulum• Sitting position• Repetition• Silence and breaks• Open suggestions• Positive feedback• Passing and leading• Starting faster and gradually

slowing down• Music.