Day 5 - Releasing negative emotions
Moving To A New Perspective
You’ve come so far. Congratulations! Now is the time to complete our journey of emotional transformation.
Yesterday, you created a new, re-visioned image of your emotion. It’s no longer negative, and it carries positive content and symbolism.
The final step in the process is the visualization, in which you will engage with a new positive image you created.
I suggest you repeat this visualization at least once daily for twenty-one days to experience positive change on all levels.
You can use your brain as a simulator to help you achieve a desired goal or outcome.
The key to lasting transformation is imprinting new symbolic messaging onto your subconscious mind. The image you created yesterday serves to deliver this new positive message.
You will notice improvement after completing this course, and you can stop there, but for the change to truly take place, I strongly recommend you repeat the final re-visioning meditation for three weeks. Now, onto instructions for today.
Follow these six steps to transform the image associations
1. Reflect back on your images
If you have created two separate images, place the new artwork next to the original image, or if you decided to paint over your original image, display only this one.
Take a few deep breaths and take in both pieces' content and allow them to communicate intuitively with you.
2. Ask yourself those important questions
Read those questions and journal your answers in your notebook.
As you look at both drawings - the original image and the transformed image - what can you sense is the difference between those two pictures?
How do you feel about the second drawing?
How does the transformed image represent a new way of perceiving and experiencing your painful emotion?
Look at colors, images, and shapes you drew and write a sentence or two about metaphoric and symbolic significance of each one,
If this new drawing could speak, what would it say to you about life lessons this emotion was trying to teach you?
3. Perform Image Replacement Visualization
Remember, the unconscious part of your brain responds to images you serve it, and repetition ensures the transformation takes hold. All you need to do is spend a few minutes each day performing the image replacement visualization for the next twenty-one days.
Before you start, take a few deep breaths and reflect on your image(s). Now, start listening to this final guided meditation.
4. Engage with Re-visioned Drawing on a regular basis
Your new positive image is a replacement for your old painful feelings. Keep your artwork visible so you can look at it frequently. Or take a picture of it and put it on your phone or desktop as a wallpaper. Even if you just glance at it in passing, you will keep absorbing its symbolic content, reinforcing the desired change.
5. Keep at it
If you can do the image replacement visualization on a regular basis and view your finished artwork at least a few times a day, you will see the results. Your old pattern of reacting to your painful emotions or just being sabotaged by them will be gone or at least significantly minimized, and you will experience a sense of freedom and relief.
You've done it! If you have any questions or just want to share outcomes of your journey feel free to contact me. I would love to hear from you.