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YOU TOO CAN BE A PART OF THIS GROWING, CUTTING EDGE APPROACH TO MEDICAL AND THERAPEUTIC HEALING

For the first time in history, Western styled, allopathic medicine is embracing alternative healing methods such as yoga, meditation and guided imagery. In its September 1996 issue, LIFE MAGAZINE reports how major universities and hospital centers are combining imagery with traditional healing practices as a major tool in healing catastrophic illness, as well as in quicker recovery from surgical procedures.

Pioneers in this field such as Bernie Siegel, M.D. and Carl Simonton, M.D., both oncologists and best selling authors, have been successfully utilizing Guided Imagery for over 25 years in the treatment of cancer. Also, Dr. Herbert Benson, Harvard Medical School, has developed a technique called "remembered wellness," a process of "imagining" your body in perfect healing.

Psychologist Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D., refers to imagery as "the Midwife that helps birth the unconscious to the conscious mind."

The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons reports that "Guided Imagery, a low-tech relaxation technique, reduced pain and anxiety after colorectal surgery, helping people heal better and faster."

Cleveland researchers compared a group of people who received standard care with those who, for three days before surgery and six days after, listened to audiocassettes combining vocal instruction and soothing music. The Guided Imagery group described their pain as "half as severe, used one-third less pain medication and left the hospital sooner."

Carl Jung described imagery as "superior to dreams in defeating the unconscious and promoting maturation in analysis."

Hanscarl Leuner, M.D., calls imagery "a superior short-term therapy, bridging the gap between symptomatic therapies and the great psychoanalytic cure." Guided Imagery is a non-threatening relaxation process that enables the client to "bypass the censor we call the brain" and get immediately into accessing our feelings, hidden issues and distorted belief systems.

Once revealed and brought to light, many options are provided for new choices and behaviors, in addition to new ways of perceiving and changing. Imagery can be utilized in deep hypnotic trance or in a state of light relaxation.

You too can be a part of this growing, cutting edge approach to medical and therapeutic healing. You can be certified and trained in this process. This is an experiential, hands-on program where you can learn by experiencing imagery yourself and by processing with others, the various meanings and interpretations.

IntraPersonal Imagery tm  (IPI)

The Journey into Self

After years of teaching and doing Guided Imagery as a therapeutic tool for healing the body/mind, we have finally given identity and birth to a name that most fully defines the Leviton approach to imagery and what we wish to accomplish through this method.

DIAGNOSIS: IPI is a relaxation method that enables the client to obtain instant access to feelings and the unconscious, bypassing that censor we call the mind. Trauma and pain can be identified, truth revealed about the past, false belief systems clarified, all without judgment. Understanding the past for the purpose of clarification and healing -- there is no bad truth.

UNDERSTANDING CAUSE & EFFECT: Why me, why this, why now? What is the meaning of these various experiences of my life? What is the message or learning that I am to receive? Reconciling conflicts between the many subpersonalities or parts of me that I manage to externalize into outside relationships.

ACCEPTANCE & FORGIVENESS: Because there is no judgment, there can be an acceptance of reality, a "seeing" without distortion or denial, a forgiveness of self and others. Forgiveness does not imply condoning hurtful or unacceptable behavior; it is rather a releasing of the issue or trauma, choosing to not let it go on affecting one's life. To not forgive is to give total power over the rest of your life to the one who injured you.

HEALING: Of both the physical and the emotional -- changing perceptions and beliefs that have crippled us. The feeling good about self that sends forth a host of positive chemicals throughout the body that boost the immune system and enables a natural healing.

TRANSFORMATION: Enlightenment, empowerment, courage and strength by making contact with the spiritual dimensions of the true inner self and its connection with the GOD power of universal truth. Knowing that you and God are enough for any circumstance or situation.

This is a brief summary of IntraPersonal Imagery tm  and how we use it in therapy and teach it to others. 

There are two levels to this certification program.

Guided Imagery Therapist 131 hours

• 69 hours of personal training by Dr. Charles Leviton and Patti Leviton, MA
• 2 textbooks: The Conflict Between Us is the Conflict Within Me by Charles and Patti Leviton, and The Miracle of Words by Patti Leviton
• 500-page syllabus on Guided Imagery
• The above two textbooks and syllabus are a required purchase for participants in the certification program. Total cost is $100. Sold individually, syllabus is $75, The Conflict Between Us is the Conflict Within Me is $27 and The Miracle of Words is $20.
• 25 hours devoted to personal journaling of 13 experiential imageries
• 32 hours of take-home tests on the two texts
• 5 hours of creating three original imageries

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CERTIFIED AS A GUIDED IMAGERY THERAPIST OR SPECIALIST?

Certification means that a professional organization, such as Synergy Seminars, has registered with the state of California as a program that supplies training to qualify people to provide Guided Imagery to the general public. If you are already a licensed professional psychotherapist, this certifies additional training and experience in a specialty. Similar certification training in a specialty might include hypnosis, biofeedback, voice dialogue or NLP.

If you are not a licensed professional psychotherapist, there is no licensing law that applies to Guided Imagery. With this certification, you can present yourself to the public as a person trained in this modality to do counseling for relaxation, stress reduction, pain control, problem solving and habit control. You cannot hold yourself out to be a psychotherapist.

Level One will provide a basic theoretical background, as well as "hands on" personal experience in the uses of imagery by actively experiencing the process on a personal level. Group interaction, plus symbol interpretation and communication training will greatly add to your experience.

Level Two will provide advanced clinical hours and experiences to further enhance skills, induction techniques, and the use of rituals, music and color. Most people find the additional fringe benefits of personal therapeutic growth and understanding. The clearest and most significant pathway to helping others is your own personal quest for balance, maturity, self-love, and individual healing.

If you personally or your community can provide a local sponsoring group to guarantee 12 or more participants, we will bring this exciting Guided Imagery Certification program to you. Also, if you are the initiator in coordinating a program, you will receive the three-weekends free of charge.