With a focus on safety and comfort, use this grounding guided visualization to help support and prepare you for surgery or a procedure. (12 minutes)
Welcome to this guided visualization for surgery or procedures. We'll need a safe place so when things get scary and a surgery or a procedure can be scary for sure. So join me on this journey to a place of warmth and safety, the place that will protect and comfort as you face this procedure.
We begin by settling in and getting comfortable. Wherever you are, allowing your body to unwind a little as you begin to let the tension in your body just drop away. Take a few breaths as you do this. Perhaps letting out a gentle sighs you let that tension release with each breath. Breathe in and breathe out. Nice and slow. Nice and easy. If you ever start to feel tense, you can always come back to simply taking a breath in and releasing the tension as you breathe out.
You are sitting, snuggled in a large, comfy chair in front of a blazing fireplace. The room is warm and comfortable, illuminated by the glow of the fire and of a few scattered lamps. This room could be in a house or in a cozy cabin for choice as yours, but you can see out of the window that outside it is snowing. You have a wall and comfortable as you sit, perhaps with your feet to toked up beside you, off stretched out in front. Get easing at the fire, you watch the bright yellow flames flicker as they wrap around the logs in the fireplace. A contrast to the deep orange and the embers flowing below.
The soothing crackle of the flames and the occasional pop of the wood is calming and relaxing. You can feel the heat of the fire radiate out, warming your skin. The faint orange glow from the fire gives the room a wall and inviting hemisphere.
Your favorite pictures are on the wall. And in the corner, a grandfather clock ticks. It's pendulum swinging sedately back and forth to and fro. The room smells faintly of wood smoke, and you take in the fragrance as you breathe in and out.
Breathing and out. You hear the sound of wind and glancing out of the window. You see the snow is blowing around. It looks cold and stormy out there. And so you throw a blanket of your lamp and burrow down a little deeper.
Beside you on the table, you notice steam rising from a mug of your favorite drink. You pick it up and bring it close to your face to smell the aroma. Smell the rich fragrance of the drink as you take a sip, relishing the flavor. Feel the heat of the drink move down as you swallow, warming your belly and then spreading to your limbs.
This is a safe place full of comfort and support. This sanctuary you can go to in times of need.
Whenever you need to stick a step back and take a moment before you face the next challenge, or when a difficult day takes its toll, this is the place you can go. A respite, a place to replenish the spirit. Allow yourself to unwind little as you let this place restore you.
Breathe in and out, absorbing these feelings of comfort with each breath. As you take a little more notice of the room, you realize many of your favorite things on air by, non -mentos from that special day, or awards that signify proud achievement.
Items that hold significance that represent strength and comfort are a whole that aren't length if you need them. At any time you can reach out and take an item, hold it and recall the feelings associated with it, and then allow that feeling of positivity to bolster and support you as needed.
You finish your drink just in time as a cherished pet account or a dog perhaps jumps into your lap. Experience that quiet joy is the express that unreserved affection for you. They settle in, smuggling down as you pet them. The warmth of their body, adding to the overall feeling of comfort you experience here in this safe place.
The faint crackle of the fire and the tick, the top of the grandfather clock. The flickering of the flames and the warm blow from fire, breathing and breathing. Outside, the snow continues to form and the wind continues to howl, but you are warm and safe here before the fire.
by moving into this safe place. You have taken the step back from the harsh weather of your day. You have created a separation from any feelings that might overwhelm. As you dwell in this place of calm and comfort, you are creating a space where you can respond to whatever is occurring outside. Instead of reacting, you give yourself time to take a moment, choose, and then respond.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Your pet looks up. Reacting to movement in the room and you see welcome guests join you. Settling into the armchairs and sofas nearby you recognize the faces of friends and family of loved ones from both past and the present. In a moment of insight you realize that you are not alone in this safe place. You have supported earth and allies. Allies who understand how difficult it is, like exhausting you can be, who are there to cheer lead and remind you that you are not alone and you can do this. Regardless of whether it be a nielestic or a surgery, you can do this.
Let the love and support from those around you bolster and recharge your spirits. Feel the love and affection from your pet boost your morale. Hold that treasured object. Recall how it felt to receive it and let that give you strength.
Go ahead the texture of the blanket around you and the comfortable chirp and eath. Absorb the warmth and glow of the fire that protects you from the stormy weather outside. Let your safe place be safe. Breathe in and breathe out. Breathe in and breathe out.
And there as you take in all this treasured help in the background you see another the familiar face. Your own. Perhaps it is just a reflection in the window. Perhaps it is an aspect of your own character and will sending you a message. That your higher, better, stronger self is also there. Always to comfort and support.
Breathe in and breathe out.
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