The emotional landscape - an emotional/spiritual exercise.

There’s a concept I’d like to describe, and I pull it from shamanism, but, it seems to me that it’s something that might be the basis of things like art therapy, where creating art can help people get in touch with their feelings, and sometimes the thoughts and reasons for unpleasant emotions.

When I enter the spirit world, I start with a fixed set of images, to help ground me, into saying “I’m not in ordinary reality any longer.” Well, that’s what I’m suggesting to you.

In this exercise, use a starting image of an “emotional landscape” where you can imagine yourself in any form you like – as a person, as a tree, as a flowering plant, as a spirit of the forest, or the earth, or the water; or anything you like, but, obviously, it’s best if it’s something that belongs in a “landscape.”

( when you enter the emotional landscape... )