It’s important when doing guided imagery or visualization to take breaks and observe yourself.
Watch how things are unfolding for you, in your life and in your feeling of well-being. Is your guided imagery working for you?
Like with many things it is easy to get lost in chasing some goal and lose sight of how you are feeling, whether you are getting what you want, and what you might be doing right or wrong.
Focus is essential for short times. Like anything, too much of any one act will cause problems.
Guided imagery is a form of focus, however unlike most other activities it should also be relaxing.
The cycle of focusing and then relaxing is an important one to learn. I advise that if you have to choose between focus and relaxing you choose relaxing.
Short periods of focus, concentration, or imagination and creativity are best offset with generous amounts of relaxation and contemplation of results.
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