About Integrated Imagery
“Integrated Imagery is a transpersonal psychotherapeutic technique that makes use of hypnosis and other modalities to enable clients to access the many dimensions of the unconscious mind. The objective of Integrated Imagery is to uncover and process the antecedents of the negative and positive karmic patterns or complexes. These antecedents are the prior experiences at the root of both the disruptive and enlivening aspects of one’s current life experience.”—John Amoroso
What I’ve found makes John Amoroso’s approach to using Integrated Imagery different from others is that he focuses on the Positive more than the Negative. In all of my reading about Past Life Regression Therapy and hypnotherapy, the client usually arrives with a problem, and through the uncovering of repetitive patterns and lives with themes of persecution, the negative charge is dissipated. While this is useful and can be life changing, Amoroso suggests that it is time for a new paradigm. In this new age, it is time to release our focus on the negative and turn our attention towards the positive themes in our lives.
In using Integrated Imagery in the creative process for artists and for those wishing to live more creative lives, we are able to awaken the subconscious to the miracle of creation. I feel that we all have at some level an innate need to create. Whether we are painters, writers, sculptures, entrepreneurs, architects, or teachers—whatever our medium, there is an urge to create. Integrated Imagery Therapy can be used effectively to identify and dissolve creative blocks, finally freeing us to take risks that fear has made impossible in the past. Integrated Imagery Therapy can be used to inspire specific projects. I have used this technique to write two novels, arriving in my conscious mind pre-plotted, theme intact and emotion spilling out the sides. Others have been inspired to write songs and poems, paint a series of landscapes, etc. Integrated Imagery Therapy can be used to better understand the origins of our creative gifts. Why does it seem there are artists who never needed to spend as much time learning basic skills? Some artists seem to leap beyond in their work to a place where what they create is truly inspired. Chances are they have had lifetimes of practicing and perfecting their craft.
In my practice I’ve been able to help artists and creative people of all types awaken to a deeper level of understanding of their creative natures, enriching their lives as creative beings. Even if you do not have a specific project in mind and you are not sure what your artistic medium might be, Integrated Imagery can be the spark that lights the fire in your soul, allowing you to become a aware of the nature of your own creative impulses and gifts.
