Relax Anywhere with Guided Visualization

You can significantly reduce stress with an enormously powerful force: your imagination. It’s hard to will yourself into a relaxed state, but you can imagine relaxation spreading through your body, and you can visualize yourself in a safe and beautiful retreat. Let us guide you to your happy place and enjoy a little mental vacation anytime, anyplace. Read on, then listen to our guided visualization audio.

In order to overcome the feelings of stress or tension, you can refocus your mind on positive, healing images. Visualization is effective in treating many stress-related and physical illnesses, including headaches, muscle spasms, chronic pain, and general or situation-specific anxiety. Visualization is used to prepare patients for surgery, boost the effects of chemotherapy, increase focus in sports competitions, and enhance well-being.

Guidelines for effective visualization…

• Loosen your clothing, lie down in a quiet place, and softly close your eyes.

• Scan your body, seeking tension in specific muscles. Relax those muscles as much as you can.

• Form mental impressions. Involve all your senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. For instance, you can imagine yourself in the midst of a green forest with beautiful trees, vivid blue sky, and fluffy white clouds. Or it could be a pristine, quiet beach. Then add the sounds, wind in the trees, water running, birdcalls, and so on.

• Practice creating your visualization three times a day. Visualization practice is easiest when done in the morning and at night while you lie in bed. After some practice, you will be able to visualize and go to your “happy place” whenever you begin to feel anxious or tense.

Visualization can help you relax and can assist you in bringing focus and clarity to your life. When practiced on a regular basis, it will increase your sense of well-being.

What is your happy place you visualized? Let us know in the comments section below.