Healing Visualization

Healing Visualization is an impressive technique used in Holistic Fertility ®. It is the application of the doctrine by Dr. Gerald Epstein, a pioneer of this technique and based on his clinical experience and years of practice as a physician-psychiatrist. There are relevant scientific journals of natural science that deal with visualization research exclusively, such as the Journal of Mental Visualization- Marquette University and the Imagination, Cognition and Personality Journal-Yale University.

Healing Visualization and Infertility

Healing Visualization is a beneficial technique whereby you actively participate in addressing your infertility. It is a process whereby the mind thinks in images. Rather than simply reacting to different stimuli, you create them, much as when you set yourself a goal. In this case the goal is defined: to have a baby. Through particular visualization exercises all your mental focus is on this goal and helps in realizing it. Thus, you go from creating images to creating reality!

Traditional medicine is reluctant to accept ‘mind over matter’ and that the mind can bring about changes in the body. In fact, it persistently supports the opposite, namely, that the physical can affect the mental. in effect, it systematically uses this ‘dogma’ to prescribe antidepressants and anaesthesias. If, however, it is evident that the body affects the mind, it is not unreasonable to expect that the use of our mental capacities, such as visualisation and willpower, can affect the body.

During my years of experience, I have repeatedly witnessed the effect of ‘mind over matter’, such as in the power of visualization to bring about positive changes in the body and achieve each patient’s desired result.

The Holistic Fertility® method applies visualization in three stages: Initially, the objective is set i.e. the mental establishment of the request and image of having a baby. Subsequently, through specific exercises, there is the cleansing process on both the mental and physical level. Finally, there is the application of a unique visualization aimed at achieving fertility and activating the genital system.

Historical data on Healing Visualization

The medicinal use of visualization was part of many cultures around the world for centuries (in Tibet, India, Africa and among the Eskimos and the American Indians). In the Western world, as medical practice evolved from its ancient roots in Egypt and afterwards in Biblical times, visualization was a prescribed technique and very often the basic treatment for physical ailments until approximately 1650, when physical science and modern medical thinking began to prevail.

In more recent times, there was a continued trend in using visualization. It was practiced mainly in France, Germany and Italy by independent physicians, the most famous being Carl Jung. These scientists, trained as pathologists and psychologists, used visualization to mostly treat emotional conditions. The techniques they developed went under various names: Directed Waking Dream (Robert Desoille), Active Imagination (Carl Jung), Guided Affective Imagery (Hanscarl Leuner), Psychosynthesis (Roberto Assagioli). Their work paved the way for the use of visualization in treating physical ailments.