Exercising the Right Side of Your Brain, Part One
of Images and Symbols: The Glue of Habit, the Lubricant of Change
NOTE: Images and Symbols: The Glue
of Habit, The Lubricant of Change is a soon-to-be-published
manual for therapist, coaches, and their clients

Fifty Imagery Exercises and Other Techniques for
Therapists, Coaches, and Their Clients
BY ARLENE
HARDER, MA, MFT
Imagine you are sitting in a boat
tied to the shore of a small fog-shrouded lake. The water is so still
and calm that you, too, become still and calm. You become comfortably
silent as you wait for the fog to lift and reveal what has been there,
but was simply hidden.
Guided imagery is like that. It helps you step back
from the busyness of the day and become open to peace and harmony arising
from within. Remaining relaxed and yet alert, you are led to a place
where you can disconnect from the chattering of the mind, where you
can find the courage to forgive yourself and others, embrace qualities
of the human spirit, uncover symbols of strength and courage, create
harmony and wholeness in your life, and expand your mind by making
use of both sides of your brain.
With more than twenty years experience in working
with imagery and symbols, I have now created a manual of more than
fifty guided imagery exercises and other techniques for accessing hidden
resources that lie within each of us.
The book is written to help therapists and coaches
become more effective by giving them ready-made, easily modified exercises
that save them the time needed to create the exercises themselves.
It allows clients — and those who are considering becoming a
client of therapists, coaches, and other counselors — to experience
some of the ways they can draw upon the core strengths they carry but
may not have known how to access.
The manual is divided into four parts identified
on the right.
© Copyright 2008, Arlene
Harder, MA, MFT |