HEALING EXCURSIONS
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010. Yesterday, I wrote and sent out an article about a technique for reducing stress. I call it Excursions. These are “guided imagery” sessions, in which a person experiences other dimensions of energy and other places…
I’ve been working with clients in this way for many years now.
Well, the Excursions can go a lot farther than my previous description. Let me start with a recent statement from a very close friend:
“I am just out of the Rehab ward of a local hospital due to a stroke that affected my left side. As I lay thinking about procedures that they use, I realized that it wasn’t enough for me.
“I remembered that Jon had done an audiotape titled Excursions for the purpose of expanding the power and scope of our imagination. We got together with the idea that he could help me imagine myself back to my normal physical state. We did six wonderful Excursions, and after the second one I could grip with my left hand which was something I could not do at all up to that point. As the Excursions progressed, my condition progressed rapidly to the place where I could return to the office after only two weeks on that ward.
“The medical establishment knows so little about our multidimensional SELF. And it was the Excursions from Jon that my imagination needed in order to reestablish the connection of my motor nerves with that part of the brain that had been cut off. There is nothing mechanical that can replace this magnificent healing technique because all healing of any significance must start with the imagination. I am so thankful for Jon and his unique talents.”
There is so much to say about all this. Let me start here. When a human being is in transition, which is to say, passing from a less inclusive to a more inclusive state of mind, many new possibilities enter the equation. Data, material, ideas, images, energies which formerly made no sense or could not be included are now relevant.
I’m not talking about an ironclad system of new beliefs or thoughts. I’m talking about an expansion in which SPACE AND THE FUTURE open up to an extraordinary degree.
In this state, Excursions can produce results that go far beyond the reduction of stress.
That is because healing takes place on many levels. You can’t count them all or label them or put them into neat categories. Connections which were formerly IMPOSSIBLE are now, suddenly, operating.
And when we glimpse or see those new connections, we realize we had been living in a limited set of spaces. We had been accepting consensus reality and molding our options and choices based on that consensus.
Through these improvised Excursions, imagination comes to the fore as a vital force, and old notions of reality are surpassed.
My friend was ready for such a transition, and in our sessions, she was somehow, quite naturally, able to accelerate beyond the “normal” process of recovery into another path of healing.
On my side of things, I need to take these Excursions into places and energies that exceed ordinary standards and models.
Perhaps this brief article gives you a bit more insight into what I’m working with.
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JON RAPPOPORT