Guided imagery is a process of deeply relaxing and imagining, with guidance, various scenarios, conversations, and experiences. For example, imagining talking to your "inner guide" can be helpful in finding answers to questions that are difficult in consciousness. It is often helpful to "talk to your symptom" and experience it as a being rather than just a nagging pain, for example, that you try your hardest to ignore. Most of the time, our symptoms are just ourselves trying to get our own attention. If we listen to what they tell us, acknowledge, and engage them, they usually subside or disappear.
Guided imagery can be used for almost any symptom. I have seen guided imagery help a woman lose 50 pounds without changing her diet. It has rid people of yeast infections, heartburn, headaches, breast lumps, depression, and more. The most impressive healing experience I have personally had with guided imagery was a significant permanent decrease in ovulatory cramping I used to have every month.
