Guided Imagery

Guided Imagery is a form of focused relaxation used to create harmony between the mind and body and promote physical healing. Sessions help release brain chemicals that act as your body's natural brain tranquilizers, lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and anxiety levels.  Debbie Duggan, L.C.S.W., provides Guided Imagery for Foundation scholarship recipients.

Guided Imagery helps patients connect with the deeper awareness of themselves at a cognitive and somatic level. The guide's role in this process is not to provide images for the patient, but to facilitate an enhanced awareness of the unconscious imagery the patient already has, and to help the patient through this process. Guided Imagery not only facilitates both psychological and physiologic change, but also empowers patients as they learn to use this process.

Visualization and other relaxation methods may produce significant benefits, often by helping to ease pain and lift depression. Because imagery comes from within the patient iit encourages patients to work with creative responses to their situation, thereby accessing their own strength and resources.