TGI Imagery Changes Memories

  6 Minute Read | Real-life example of the absolute power of TGI's ability to transform your life! A demonstration of how TGI SUCCESSFULLY CHANGES YOUR PAST!

The Power of Visualization with TGI: The Tale of Jim’s 15 Foot Wolf

The following account demonstrates the power of visualization. It’s a shocking story about weakness and strength and one of my favorites for its absolute healing transformation. MIRACLES HAPPEN!

Before moving onto the actual story, let's take a moment to understand why I have chosen visualization and the use of imagination for its efficacy for this client.

There are many healing modalities available for us to access for healing and regeneration. This one in particular, Transformational Guided Imagery (TGI), is my go-to modality for healing a myriad of maladies and emotional blockages, and getting us back on track in our life.

TGI is interchangeable as a complementary or stand-alone healing tool. In all cases, and especially difficult ones, TGI bypasses the left brain's logical attempt at control, and instead relies on the lucid right brain's limitless expansion for full head-to-heart healing. It will open up gateways of knowledge, truth, understanding and flow within you. It will empower you. It will pass ALL BOUNDARIES within and heal you. It is that part of TGI that confounds psychologists and psychotherapists. And science is just barely able to keep up.

The ability to bypass the egoistic control, even on a subconscious level, is why I chose to apply TGI to this client "Jim", who came to me with a specific set of long-standing emotional wounds and problems and required a special kind of handling. Thus, to demonstrate the effectiveness of these TGI sessions, I want to share one of the most amazing accounts of transformation I have ever experienced with a client, to date. After reading this, you will have an appreciation for imagery and visualization (TGI) too. 

The Tale of Jim’s 15 Foot Wolf

MY CLIENT "JIM" AND THE WOLF

JIM | Several years ago, I had a client, Jim, come to me referred by mutual friends, someone who knew him for 25-30 years. 

(Note: To honor and protect my client’s privacy, the name ‘Jim’ is a pseudonym.)

Jim was 55 years old when he came to me. He had been chronically depressed for 50 of those years – since he was five years old. A very tragic situation happened with when he was five years old that changed him into a massively depressed individual. He was on medications for most of his life, through college, graduate school, and was constantly hopping from one psychoanalyst to the next, to the next, to the next.

He came to me out of absolute desperation. He was extraordinarily miserable. Jim was the meekest man I had ever met. He hardly spoke; he was almost paralyzed walking around in his world. Everyone that knew him knew he was just terrified. He was a hermit; he could not sleep … almost nothing. He merely existed for most of his life.

We began working together through my transformational guided imagery sessions.

THE WOLF | I quickly learned that he was so severely depressed he would have random panic attacks due to his cruel and controlling mother’s terrorizing him so greatly, like in all of his previous psychotherapy sessions with others, his fear would paralyze him from the neck down and we would sit for sometimes 15-20 minutes until the attack subsided.

His mother emasculated him at the age of five and took him away from the one person that showed any compassion and love towards him, his nanny.

His mother came through in the following nightmare as a very large 15' snarling wolf.

If we were to place ten people in that same scenario, we are aware that each one would react differently. This happens to be Jim’s story of how he moved into a place of true power - from reacting to responding.

Because of the intensity level and delicacy of the healing that needed to take place with Jim, I was even more cautious about how we would progress through our sessions. Patience and careful listening paid off in dividends.

The Turning Point in Our Sessions

TRUST-BUILDING BETWEEN CLIENT AND PRACTITIONER LEADS TO SUCCESS

After a few months of sessions comprising of stop and start, slow moving, and days of temporary paralysis; on one particular day in one of our sessions, he shared a memory of a nightmare he had had in graduate school. This nightmare and the memory of it haunted him ever since, and for 30 years he remained an emotional and mental, even physical, hostage to it. He opened up to me and shared the story of the nightmare ...

Jim's 30 Year Nightmare

A 30 YEAR JOURNEY OF PAIN, ANGUISH AND ALL-CONSUMING TERROR

Jim was a little lumberjack who lived in a little village.

One day while out gathering wood in the forest, he heard the sound of men screaming from within the little town.

He dropped the sticks of wood and came running up into the town.

There was a type of longhouse, a main gathering place, in the town from where the screams were coming.

He ran right in through the front doors and saw the bodies of men lying in rows along the edge of the long house, terror in their eyes, frightened and paralyzed with fear.

They were staring at a 15-foot long 5-foot high female wolf, with bright yellow eyes and a snarling, snapping mouth of huge teeth.

The wolf had already killed a man and had another in her mouth, ready to shred him as well.

Jim was terrified but wanted to save the men and the village.

In her rage at being confronted, the wolf turned to face him, lunged and emasculated his male genitalia on the spot.

Jim awoke SCREAMING.

And continued screaming silently through the next 30 years until ...

Jim's  Shift in Quantum Awareness

COMING OUT OF AUTO-PILOT MODE | AWARE THAT HE NEEDS TO BE AWARE

Here is Jim, broken and depressed, who has told this story to countless therapists over many, many therapies – he is now 55 years old and this began at the age of five – and I am sitting there thinking, ‘Okay, this is my cue. Obviously something needs to be done about this once and for all so he can finally get on with his life.'

So I simply asked him, right when details were fresh in his mind, right after his recalling this horrible memory, this horrible nightmare that he has carried with him for over 30 years ...

“So, Jim," I continued, "what would you like to do?”

'What would I like to do?!?!', he thought.

Jim looked at me confounded. “What do you mean, what do I want to ... DO? I have been to countless therapists and not one of them has ever asked me this before.”  Jim was deeply mystified, confused, and even sounded slightly skeptical as to what I was asking; this was new territory for him.

Reassuringly I said, “Well… it’s all energy. It’s about weaving; it’s about interweaving. So Jim, what do you want to do now? If you could recreate this nightmare how would you do it?”

 THE LIGHT BULB AHA! MOMENT | This was the most important moment in all of our sessions together. This was the moment the light bulb went on in Jim's mind. Awareness began to flood in to his conscious awareness. Like the dawn of a new day, Jim began to understand, in this moment, that THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY. It took a while for him to understand and register what I was suggesting.

He finally got it and slowly, very very slowly, we began to reweave the story, this nightmare ...

THE HEROS JOURNEY: Jim's New Version of the Wolf Tale

THE REWEAVING OF A NIGHTMARE | CREATING A HOLOGRAPHIC OVERLAY ... EVEN THROUGH JIM'S CRIPPLED EMOTIONAL BODY, WE SEE A HERO'S JOURNEY!

Jim was once again gathering wood in the forest.

He hears the sounds of men screaming, drops the wood, comes rushing up from the forest into the village’s long house and flings open the big doors.

So far, no one is dead yet in this version.

The giant wolf is still massive and drooling and has one of the struggling men dangling from her massive mouth.

She sees Jim and spits him out; he is badly shaken but not hurt, and crawls to the side where the other men remain, lying prone and paralyzed.

During this whole process, Jim would also become paralyzed for several minutes to hours and I would have to wait. This entire process took a couple of hours to go through. I’m giving you a very short version of this process.

Back to the story.

Jim turned towards the she wolf and she turned towards him. Jim then produced a small sword named “Sting” (from the story about the Hobbits) and stood there wielding it before the wolf.

Jim was a little man so this sword was perfect size.

At this point, Jim and the wolf began to have a stare-off. He said (to me), “I didn’t harm her; I’m not harming her. I’m just showing her I’m wielding this sword in front of her and that I mean business.”

It was as if Jim wanted me to know he had no ill will against his mother, despite all she had done to him. He was acutely aware that this wolf represented his mother and he did not wish to harm her no matter how cruel she had been toward him. And at that moment I noticed Jim’s psyche was paying acute attention.

Jim continues to wield this little Sting at this massive wolf.

They continue to stare-off. (For several more minutes.)

After some time, and a couple of paralysis moments more, the wolf came around and … finally ... walked around him and left the long house to return to the forest.

THE MOMENT HIS PSYCHE TOOK OVER: 

The wolf left?!? This was a like a seismic shock to Jim. Jim was not expecting the Wolf to stand down ... at all. His Mother never did. She was always firm, fierce, cruel, calculating. And Jim felt trapped in the endless stare-fest. But, eventually, the Wolf (his Mother) did indeed leave. 

He was gobsmacked into further silence.

Jim then put "Sting" away.

I said, “Do you still want to carry on?”

THEN ... THIS HAPPENED ...

 IMPORTANT | Because he is giving me the play-by-play, I coach but not leading suggestions as to what to do because I knew that if I did, it would sabotage his own psyche’s need and more importantly, ability to, heal the situation without any assistance from me.

The Miracle Moment

THE RESULT OF A HOLOGRAPHIC OVERLAY ... THE DREAM MAKES ITSELF ANEW! IS JIM CREATING THE DREAM OR IS THE DREAM CREATING ITSELF FOR JIM?

HERE IS WHERE THE SESSION GETS EVEN MORE NEXT-LEVEL INTERESTING | The phenomena began when Jim’s subconscious took over and his psyche sprang to life in the moment. One tremendous moment!

For Jim, however, it was the most confusing moment.

I said, “Jim, so what’s happening now?”

Still with his eyes closed in inner meditation, he responds, saying, “Well, all the men ….” Then he stopped cold. (I thought something bad was happening based on his past traumas, like an inner saboteur.)

After a brief unexpected pause, he continued, with this dawning realizing look spreading across his face,

"Oh, my gosh!

All the men that were lying there,
they all got up and they’ve lifted me on their shoulders
and they’re marching me through the village
and they’re shouting
Hooray! Hooray!
He’s rescued us from the wolf!’”

The men lifted Jim high on top of their shoulders and marched him through the village triumphantly.

Jim’s face was lit up like a Christmas tree. His entire demeanor had shifted to elation and complete surprise.

I asked him, “How do you feel now?”

His response surprised me; from this meek little man who never swears or curses, he asks, “Permission to curse?” and I said, “Granted.”

He gave me a meek little thumbs up and said, “Fook'n A!” 

In one moment, Jim was transformed and truly happy for the first time in 50 years.

The Power of Holographic Overlays

HOW DID JIM GO FROM RECREATING THE NIGHTMARE INTO A POSITIVE DREAM TO THE NEW DREAM TAKING ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN?

Briefly, a Holographic Overlay is a term I coined for binding new memory on top of an old memory. When you change a thought to a love thought, your body structure shifts because you have created a holographic overlay, and therefore changed your biological chemical structure. As a result, your world cannot help but change its reflection — its mirror.

In Jim's reweaving of the nightmare, he created a new story line. The subconscious was not aware whether the new story was "real" or not. So, it considered it to be an actual event.

The Biochemical Switch

When his body tried to revisit the old story, the new transformed nightmare overrode it. This new version is a holographic overlay complete with all the emotions and feelings that the original nightmare contained only with this new version, all the biochemical reactions that were in the original were also transformed into hero-like biochemical reactions.

Jim's subconscious then took over, his psyche. His psyche needed to be left alone to do the work, which then created inner trust ... or, Happily Inner After.

In an expanded state of consciousness, the higher mind of the dream state is not only absolutely trustworthy but also makes the conscious mind trustworthy to respond appropriately to the dream state.

Therefore, changes occurring in the plot of the dream state produce subsequent changes for the better in the awake state. Transformation happens and then the magic and miracles follow suit.

 IMPORTANT | Our psyche knows best! When our psyche is left alone to do the inner work, we then learn inner trust.

Our psyche knows best!
When our psyche is left alone to do the inner work, we then learn inner trust. — Deidre Madsen

Afterwards

JIM'S FREEDOM AND LIBERATION FROM A LONG-STANDING PAIN-BODY

After that breakthrough session, Jim made a 180 degree turn. At first, he did not believe what had happened because he clung to the memory of the first part of the process, which was struggle and paralysis. It was not until the moment his psyche completely took over and healed the moment – where the men of the village lifted him up on their shoulder, marching him through the village shouting Hooray! Hooray! Jim’s own psyche was keenly aware and absolutely knew in advance that this moment was coming. Moreover, when that long awaited moment arrived, it took over and brought him to victory; it brought him success and released him from that dreadful nightmare.

Jim kept coming to me for further healing sessions for a few more months afterwards. He had studied professional photography - something he always loved – in his past so he began to provide this as a career profession. He got out and travelled. He bought himself a cell phone. He began to live in the 21st century for the first time in his life. Some of our mutual friends remarked, “We do not recognize Jim. This is amazing, who is this man? He looks amazing and is so alive. This is great. Whatever you’re doing for him, keep it up!” Jim started to live and he loved living.

Years have passed since working with Jim, and sadly Jim too has finally passed on; however, not without living fully first. Sharing his story is a legacy to his success, and Jim’s wonderful psyche that chose to heal and uplift. He lifted himself up by his bootstraps with his God-given abilities.

You can see by Jim’s Tale of the 15' Wolf just how amazing and powerfully effective our imaginations can be; they can actually HEAL US.

In Divine and Loving Service,

Deidre Madsen

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