USING OPPOSITES TO UNDO AND HEAL

To make this into an image, you would see yourself feeling blue. Then you imagine the opposite. One client actually saw that she had turned blue. When she imagined the opposite, she spontaneously saw herself turn a glowing pink. She immediately felt happier, healthier, “in the pink.”

Choose three to five thoughts to practice with. They don’t have to be about asthma. They can be anything that the Committee sends your way. If you do this consistently, you soon will be able to identify your recurring thought patterns and Undo them. If you find yourself rebelling against this exercise, not wanting to bother to write things down, and doubting that something so simple can produce results, guess who’s talking! We suggest that you practice this exercise for at least a week and see what happens before you allow the Judge to veto it or the Skeptic to sow the seeds of doubt.

By practicing these acts of self-remembering, you restore yourself to life. Think of them as imaginal habit breakers that for an instant allow you to leave behind your difficulty and take a leap into freedom. Don’t worry about whether your choice of an opposite is far-fetched or impossible. In the world of imagination, anything is possible. And once you get a taste of making the impossible become possible there, you can change your belief and do it here as well. Even when asthma isn’t directly mentioned, its underlying mental, emotional, social, and moral issues are all addressed — grief, anger, perfectionism, power, isolation, self-worth, enslavement, freedom, love, loss, and truth.

IMAGINATION: THE ULTIMATE UNDOER

Imagery is a powerful mind technology for Undoing. The exercises in this chapter are effective for Undoing beliefs, for removing symptoms, and for healing relationships. They help you live an asthma-free life. The next story reveals how closely the heart and the lungs are linked.

Getting to the Heart of Things: A Journey via Imagination

Dr. Martin Rossman had been using imagery successfully with a twenty-four-year-old man with a long history of asthma when suddenly the asthma symptoms returned. Dr. Rossman suggested to his client that he imagine going inside his chest to see what was going on. Once inside, the client reported there was an agitated dwarf guarding the territory leading to his heart. When anyone came too close, the dwarf blocked the entrance, which initially appeared as a tunnel. Not coincidentally, the tunnel looked like a bronchial tube, which closed down when the dwarf sounded the warning of a possible invasion.