In this guided‑imagery sample from Dr. Emmett Miller’s “Freeing Yourself From Fear” program, the narrator invites the listener to settle into a comfortable chair and recall a past situation where deep relaxation could have been useful. The listener visualizes the scene, identifies a point in the narrative to apply a relaxation technique, and mentally rehearses the steps of tensing and releasing the body. While maintaining this relaxed state, the listener rewrites their internal script, imagining a more confident, focused response and a satisfying outcome. The exercise ends with a brief promotional cue directing the audience to the full program at shopdrmiller.com.
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Feel your body resting comfortably in this chair in your screening room. And as you look up at the screen now, feeling relaxed and comfortable, let yourself begin to recall a time in the past when you could have effectively used the deep relaxation technique you have learned. And as you replay this scene for yourself, rewrite it. Picture yourself taking 10 or 20 minutes at one or more times before or during this series of events and decide where you could most effectively use this process. Picture yourself using it slowly Begin to let the beginning of this movie come into focus. When you reach the part of this movie in which it's time to use deep relaxation, see just where you're going to choose to sit or lie down and to be consciously aware of the steps of the relaxation process as you go through them. Imagine yourself beginning by focusing on that point in the distance and following all the way through the tensing and relaxation of your body. Then, as you see yourself finishing this process of relaxation, rewrite your script for the way that you handle this scene, and see that because of your relaxation, your concentration, and the inner confidence that you have, you are able to handle this scene much more appropriately. As it ends, you feel much more satisfied with your feelings and with your behavior. Let the scene come in clearly now. Start it from the beginning, and during the next minute, go all the way through it, rewriting your script, remembering you can use—
This has been a sample of Dr. Emmett Miller's guided imagery program for Freeing Yourself from Fear. Find it at shopdrmiller.com.
