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Purpose : This
exercise can be used to get your client in touch with his Higher Self, or some other ideal
model to use to help integrate his personality or achieve a desire behaviour. Instructions to Guide : Take some
time to put your client in a quiet, relaxed state. Then have him begin visualising himself
walking down a corridor of a museum, slowly approaching a statue that is emerging in the
distance.
"As you are approaching this statue, you are beginning to see its form emerge, and
you realize this is your Higher Self ! (If it is another ideal model you want him to
identify with, such as your Playful Self or your Responsible Self, Substitute here).
Beware of what this Higher Self looks like, its stance ... the expression on its face ...
its attire ... let yourself experience its essence for a moment ....discover how you feel
in its presence. Now, just allow yourself to be there in the presence of this statue for a
moment and experience a relationship. Now slowly move toward this glorious statue,
allowing yourself to come closer and closer, staying in touch with how you feel ... and
merge with this Self, come down off your pedestal and move around as this self ... just do
this for awhile now ... discover how it feet, moving its arms, breathing its breath ...
just being this Self.
"Now imagine you as your Higher Self are returning back to your pedestal to take your
stance once again, and slowly experience yourself as you are now stepping out of its form
and stand in front of it once again. Your Higher Self is now giving you a gift to use
whenver you need it for strength, courage or loving action. See the gift being handed to
you, accept it ... and in your own thank you Higher Self for this wondrous gift and take a
few moments in silence to assimilate this experience (long pause).
"Now slowly return to the room here with me by experiencing yourself sitting in the
chair, becoming aware of your body ... now, slowly open your eyes when you feel
ready".
Processing : Take a few
minutes to process this experience with you client. Make sure you ask question about the
main points you have covered in this imagery. The main purpose is to be sure your client
emerge with a clear picture of this Self, in detail, the essence of this Self, and a clear
understanding of what the gift means for him in his everyday life.
Source : Jacquelyn Small, op. cit., pp.
253-254.
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