Guided Imagery

Created From an article in Vision Magazine by Jesse Wolfe Hardinn
The Burden Basket is a metaphor for the psychological and emotional load we inevitably carry…for what we commit to, or hold ourselves responsible for, for what we accumulate in our lives, from belongings to beliefs. It is vital that we periodically and/or ritually clean out the basket. Empty everything out, turn your basket upside down, then sense, discern, and choose, what to organize and retain, and what to let go. All that you are attached to, feel obligated to or committed to…both healthy and unhealthy, are in this basket.
It is time to empty out the good with the bad…to empty not partially and preferentially but totally, so that anything in there when we put the basket back on will be a relationship, pattern or promise that we have consciously and willingly chosen to bear.
Allow an image to form, of a gently sloping path leading up the side of a mountain. When you are ready, begin walking up the path, and as you walk, a shallow cave appears. Imagine yourself going into the cave and sitting down next to a mirror-like, shallow pool of water. You realize that you are carrying a basket on your back and, you decide, whenever you’re ready, to take this basket off and empty the entire contents onto the floor of the cave. As you look at every item, determine what is precious, meaningful and useful, as well as all that weighs on you, if only for a pivotal period.
Just as there is an option to hang onto everything no matter how much it weighs you down there is also an option, when repacking, to keep it light.
Carefully pick up what is essential and empowering, and, one by one, put them back in the basket. You decide what is best to enable you to move forward with significance, intention and result, towards opportunity, new experience, new revelation, and new depths of understanding.
You might have a tendency to look at your reflection in the pool noticing how you have changed.
And when you are ready…thank the images for sharing this journey with you.
Count them out then discuss what they released and what they kept. This gives clients insight and you more information for additional sessions.