An uplifting guided visualization, envisioning the very cells of the body as you receive your chemotherapy infusion. (15 minutes)
Welcome to this guided visualization for chemotherapy. Join me on a journey into your body as it receives chemotherapy and fusion. Although we're focusing on the time of the infusion, this can be practiced before or after the treatment as well.
We begin by settling in in a comfortable position. Allow your body to unwind and let go a little bit of tension in your body. Take a few breaths, perhaps letting out a single side as you let that tend and jump away with each breath. Breathe in and breathe out.
Remember that at any time if you start to feel tense, you can come back to taking a deep breath and letting it out. In and out.
Feel your body as you rest. The subtle movements of your breath, the pressure of the bed or chair beneath you, the steering of air around you. Notice any sensations coming from within, any subtle tingling from your fingers, the occasional grumbling of your stomach. Your body is moving as it should. Feel yourself at rest and let those subtle sensations inform as you create an image of your body from head to toe. Relaxed and comfortable as you rest, simply breathing in and out.
And slowly, allow the perspective to change from viewing your whole body to seeing just a small part of it. You can choose the location. It could be on the surface or deep inside. Zoom into that place, let it become smaller and smaller. As your viewpoint changes, shrinking down even further, you begin to see your body as never before, from the perspective of a cell.
And there are cells all around you. Your body's built in blocks, seen with more detail and clarity than you ever imagined. And there's a gentle light shining through the cells, illuminating the scene in a way that reminds you of sunlight seen through closed eyelids. Observe how the cells fit together to create the blood and tissue of your body. You can see that they are full of life and fatality. You observe the rich color, each cell, regular and even in shape. There's cell walls, strong and healthy.
Notice also the variety of cells all playing their part and keeping you well. Red blood cells flowing, providing energy to other cells. Why blood cells protecting you from affection. You can even see beneath the surface, faint shapes inside the cell. These are organelles, like them in the country and in the nucleus. Those individual parts that make up each cell, and they are all working as they should. They are almost glowing with vibrant energy.
Take a moment to Enjoy this feeling of vibrancy and health of your cells and body flourishing. Breathe in and breathe out.
Now let your mind's eyes shift its perspective until it focuses on a cancer cell. Notice how different It looks a duller color, weaker cell walls, irregular and haphazard. Unhealthy. There is activity within the cell. Movements from the organelles, but that energy seems distorted, misaligned, as it frantically draws resources from your body to simply reproduce again and again. See the contrast between these cells and your healthy ones. Breathe in and breathe out.
As your mind eye observes, allow a new player to enter the scene. The chemical that is your chemotherapy has been introduced and as it spreads, you see a subtle change in the environment. Perhaps there is a change in color as the chemotherapy moves into and around the cells. Perhaps a lighter hue or a glow. However you perceive it, that change reminds you of power. Because that is what the chemical is, the power to remove any cancer from this picture.
Follow the change as the chemotherapy spreads through your body. See how it impacts the cells it encounters. Even healthy cells are influenced by this power, but their inherent strength and vitality shrugs of any negative effects. The same cannot be said of the cancer cells. At first, those cells graciously absorb the new arrival attempting to use it as resource for the reproduction. But soon enough, you see a response, a change in the activity in and around the cell. The frantic activity stutters, stalls, like a runner tripping, losing their stride.
This chemotherapy, this color, this power has begun to work.
Deep inside each of those cells, at the very center, the nucleus and then at the other organelles begin to fall apart. The ability to reproduce has been stalled by the chemical, and a chain reaction is triggered. With nowhere to go, the distorted energy that drove these cancer cells loses control and the inner workings splinter and fragment. The cell walls weak to begin with, turn dull and come apart like tissue paper. Watch as multitudes of cancer cells come apart and die.
Breathe in and breathe out.
The color, the glow, the power, which is the chemotherapy drug, spreads and flows through your body, finding any cancer cells as it penetrates, you see them wilt and die.
Return to a view of your cells all around you. Rose of healthy cells, vital and strong, with that gentle glow, eliminating them. Notice the fragments of the dead cancer cells as they are absorbed by your body's immune system. White blood cells, macrophages, draw the front fragments to themselves as they digest the debris. Steadily, your body returns to a state of health and vitality. Any after effects of the chemotherapy on your healthy cells fade as your body returns to strength. Observe your cells and the organelles within. Your whole body, healthy,
and vital as you breathe in and out. Let your perspective expands now, drawing away as it moves until you return to seeing your whole body rest in comfortable, healthy and vital. Notice any sensations, any subtle tingling from your fingers There's the occasional grumbling of your stomach, the pressure of the bed or chair beneath the aisle. Feel the subtle movement as you breathe in and as you breathe out. Your body is moving as it should. Breathe in and breathe out.
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