Special Place Guided Imagery

Special Place Guided Imagery helps reduce treatment-related anxiety, nausea, fatigue, and depression while increasing comfort, confidence, calm, and self-awareness. This guided practice uses all the senses to support healing and emotional steadiness.

Benefits

• Reduced side effects related to cancer treatment:
• anxiety, nausea, fatigue, depression
• Increased comfort
• Improved self-confidence, self-esteem, sense of control
• Increased calm, steadiness
• Greater self-awareness

Guided Imagery

• Imagery focuses and directs the imagination to
• help influence the body’s healing
• Imagery uses all of the senses
• Vision, sound, touch, smell, taste

Warm Up

• Close your eyes
• Imagine yourself in your kitchen
• Notice what you see, smell, touch, taste, and hear