In this uplifting guided visualization, envision the 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 a chemotherapy infusion. Although focusing on the time of an infusion, it can be practiced before or after a treatment as well. We begin by settling in and getting comfortable. Allow your body to unwind a little as you let the tension in your body begin to let go. Take a few breaths, perhaps letting out a gentle sigh as you let that tension drop away with each breath.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Remember that at any time you start to feel tense, you can come back to just taking a breath. and letting it out in and out. Feel your body as you rest, the subtle movement as you breathe, the pressure of the bed or chair beneath you, the stirring of the air around you.
Notice any sensations coming from within, any subtle tingling from your fingers, the occasional rumbling of your stomach, your body moving as it should. Feel yourself at rest and let those subtle sensations inform you as you create an image in your mind's eye of your whole body from head to toe. Relaxed and comfortable as you rest. Simply breathing in and out. and out.
Then slowly, gradually, allow that perspective to change. From viewing your whole body to just seeing a small part of it now, choose the location it could be on the surface or deep inside. Zoom into that place, becoming 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 is building blocks, seen with more detail and clarity than you ever imagined. There is 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 vitality. You observe their rich color, each cell regular and even in shape. There's our walls strong and healthy.
Notice also the variety of cells, all playing their part in keeping you well. Red blood cells flowing, providing energy to other cells. White blood cells protecting you from infection.
You can even see beneath the surface, shapes inside the cell. These are organelles like the mitochondria and 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, your selves and your 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 warns, irregular and haphazard. Unhealthy.
There is activity within the cell, movement from the organelles, but that energy seemed 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 as your mind's 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 colour 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 this 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 that encounters.
Even healthy cells are influenced by this power. But their inherent strength and vitality, shrug off any negative effects. The same cannot be set of the cancer cells.
At first, those cells ferretiously absorb this you arrival, attempting to use it at the resource for that reproduction. But soon enough, you see a response, a change in the activity in and around the cell. The frantic activity's sputters, stalls, like a runner tripping losing their stride.
This schema therapy, this color, this power has begun to do its work. Deep inside each of those cells at the very center, the nucleus, and then 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, Turned all and come apart like tissue paper. Watch as multitudes of cancer cells come apart and die.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Look how the glow of the power, which is the chemotherapy drug spreads and flows through your body, finding any cancer cells. And as it penetrates, you see them wilt and die.
Return to a view of your cells all around now. Rows of healthy cells, vital and strong, with that gentle glow illuminating them. Notice the fragments of dead cancer cells as they are absorbed by your body's immune system. White blood cells, macrophages, draw the 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.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Observe yourself and the organelles within. Your whole body healthy and vital as you breathe. Nice and slowly. In and out.
Let your perspective expand now. drawing away as it moves until you return to seeing your whole body resting comfortable healthy and vital notice any sensations any subtle tingling from your fingers or the occasional grumbling of your stomach The pressure of the bed or chab and if you feel the subtle movement that you breathe in and out feel your body moving as it should
Breathe in and breathe out.
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