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РусскийDestroying Inner Images
Threatening inner visual images can be destroyed, helping them lose their frightening or disturbing power. The following exercises are designed to dissolve or eliminate inner representations that disturb or block you.
As a rule, it’s always wise to do an ecology check first and extract any useful information, since after using these techniques, amnesia may occur.
You can do the ecology check as follows:
- 1. Let the image you want to dissolve appear before your mind’s eye.
- 2. Ask yourself the following questions as you look at the image within:
Does this image want to draw my attention to something I should do or avoid in the future? Does it contain another important message for me? If yes: What exactly should I do or avoid? What is this image trying to tell me? What must I do or change so I can let go of this image?
Light and Darkness
- Check whether the image contains an important message for you.
- Now imagine the image becoming darker — like a picture on a TV screen fading as you turn down the contrast. Eventually it becomes so dark that you can’t see anything. Alternatively, imagine it becoming brighter — a strong light shining until it overexposes the image completely. Finally, nothing is visible.
- Push the fully dark or light image down to the floor and then backwards, letting it move further and further away until it becomes a tiny dot and finally disappears completely.
Shattering a Mirror
“Crazing” is what happens to tempered glass — for example, car side or rear windows — when it shatters. It breaks into a thousand small pieces and falls apart. Imagine the inner image you want to get rid of as being like that car window, or painted on it. Strike it hard with a hammer and watch it break into a thousand tiny fragments and fall away. You may have to repeat this a few times to destroy it completely. Then sweep up the shards and dispose of them safely.
Burning Images
Imagine holding a lit match to the image until it begins to smolder, blacken, curl, and finally turn into a small pile of ash. Or picture a fire — perhaps a cozy fireplace — and throw the image into it, watching with satisfaction as it burns away in the heat. Another useful reference is a film strip stopping in a projector and the lamp burning a hole through the frame. You can also simply imagine the picture turning completely to ashes.
Letting Images Dissolve
Now imagine water dripping onto the picture. The colors start to blur, like a watercolor painting left out in the rain, until all that remains is a blurred patch of color with no recognizable shape. Sometimes, this remaining splash of color can even appear aesthetically pleasing. Other helpful references for image dissolution include turning a kaleidoscope, watching a watercolor on a sidewalk in the rain, seeing an image in a cracking mirror, or observing a reflection on a rippling pond.