Welcome to Integrative Wisdom's guided imagery with a partner,
Sending and receiving healing energy.
This guided imagery is designed for two people to practice the art of both giving and receiving.
It is pretty typical that we are good at one more than the other.
This experience will allow you to practice being open to both.
In preparation you will want to find a partner,
One willing to share this sacred time with you,
Someone you trust.
Secondly,
Find a place you can do this without being disturbed.
And lastly,
Place a chair in the middle of a room with enough space around it to feel open and comfortable.
And now,
Choose which of you will be the first to give and which will be the first to receive.
The first to receive,
Please settle into the chair,
Finding that comfortable seated posture.
Feet flat on the ground,
Hands resting in your lap.
And in a moment you will prepare to close your eyes.
Your job is to do nothing other than simply breathe in and out gently.
You will allow your mind to switch off and to go into the vastness that is all around you.
You will simply observe any feelings or sensations of receiving.
When your time to receive has come to an end,
Your partner will gently shake you on your shoulders,
Quietly call your name and give you a little time to bring your awareness back into the room before you will quietly trade places.
And now,
Let us begin.
Receiver please close your eyes.
To one giving,
Please stand behind the receiver and gently close your eyes.
As you stand with feet and shoulders a width apart,
Your knees relaxed,
Not locked,
Place your hands on your heart and begin to breathe gently in and out.
Visualize a loved one standing in front of you.
Allow the feelings of love and tenderness to well up within your heart and chest area.
And now take your hands and place them gently upon the shoulders of the person seated in front of you.
Allow your hands to rest firmly but do not allow them to weigh upon your partner.
See that your fingers and thumb are all touching and that your hand is slightly cupped.
As your chest begins to swell with a sense of love for your beloved,
Allow those feelings to begin to cascade down the arms and into the palms of your hands.
Continue to visualize your loved one in front of you as loving energy flows out of your hands into the person receiving.
The receiver take a moment as you're breathing in and out to observe how it feels to be the recipient of this loving energy,
This unconditional love.
The person giving continue to send that gentle energy flowing from the chest area down through your arms,
Into your hands,
Into the shoulders of the receiver.
And at this moment,
Go ahead and begin to imagine that the energy is now going to be coming back to you.
And so this energy begins to flow back through your hands and your arms back into the center of your chest.
And as you feel the energy circulating within your heart,
Say goodbye to your loved one and send them on their way with loving thoughts until you meet again.
Now gently shake the shoulders of the receiver,
Call your name quietly and then go ahead and remove your hands from their shoulders.
Allow yourself to rub your hands together and just imagine that you shake them towards the ground away from the person seated in front of you,
Allowing any excess energy to go back into the earth.
Both receiver and giver open your eyes,
Take a moment to just simply look at each other and then change positions.
The receiver will now become the giver.
The giver will now be the receiver and so please find your way into the chair,
Sitting with upright posture,
Feet flat on the ground,
Hands resting in your lap.
And you can go ahead and gently close your eyes and begin to just breathe in and out,
Preparing now to do nothing but be open and receive.
And now the receiver turned giver,
Please go ahead and stand behind the chair.
Take a moment to close your eyes,
Recognize your feet flat on the ground about shoulder width apart,
Knees firm but not locked and place your hands in the center of your chest.
Sitting in and out,
Begin to imagine a loved one standing in front of you.
Begin to imagine those feelings of love building up within your chest,
In the center of your chest and in your heart area.
Allow yourself as your hands are placed on the shoulders that you begin to feel the energy that's welling up in your chest become flowing through your arms,
Down through your hands into the receiver.
Your hands are placed gently on the shoulders firmly but not heavily,
Fingers and thumb together,
Hands slightly cupped and you feel the energy flow as you imagine this loved one and the feelings that you hold for them cascading down into the receiver.
Breathing in,
Breathing out.
The receiver begins to take a moment to recognize what it is to be open to receiving,
Observing what it feels like to simply receive.
And now,
Giver,
Begin to imagine the energy is coming back to you now,
Coming through your arms back into the center of your chest,
Back into your heart.
And as you feel this energy circulating there,
Take a moment to say goodbye and thank you to your loved one.
Bring them on their way with loving thoughts until you meet again.
And now gently shake the shoulders of the receiver,
Calling their name quietly and gently as they prepare to bring their awareness back into the room.
You take your hands off of their shoulders and just simply rub your hands together and imagine flicking that energy into the ground,
Back into the earth,
Any excess energy being expelled.
And now with this giving and receiving of energy coming to a close,
I hope that you will take the next few minutes together to have a conversation,
Each of you having been the giver and each of you having been the receiver.
Take a moment to share with each other what this was like.
Allow yourselves to observe any emotions or thoughts or sensations.
Perhaps notice if one was easier for you than the other,
But also notice if you were able to do both.
And at this moment,
Simply share the time,
Perhaps say thank you before you move on with the rest of your day.
