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Imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
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You choose a sandtray with a colored sand: black, white, orange/red or garnet... |
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There may be sessions when you work in the sand alone through movement, shaping the sand with water, bringing in fire or light with lit candles...
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Or go to the shelves and select figures, paying attention to those which seem to hold a special affinity or attraction... |
| | Trust your intuitiveness to select any number of figures to bring into the tray…don’t think or analyze too much, as the role of a figure or meaning, what you need to do with the figure(s) and their interplay, how each relates to the other, often becomes clearer as you begin building. |  |
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Inner silence promotes clarity of mind, it makes us value the inner world, it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges. Deepak Chopra
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| | As therapist, I will begin taking notes about order and placement of the figures in the tray, noting how you name the images and when you verbally begin to tell the story of what is coming into the tray. I will offer direction about your getting to know these chosen ones, their meaning to you, evoked feelings, to build with and without words, to be with the stillness, taking notice of all that is showing up in the moment, patterns of thoughts, staying open to what path seems easier and what you may be resisting, avoiding, being distracted by... | |
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Who or what is absent in the story-telling...there will be times of gentle inquiry about your experience of discomfort, sadness, grief, the dark, the heavy, the aching and hurting heart, the angers, the desire to bolt, tears and what these states, characters and their interactions are informing you of.
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There will be time to process your actions in, and reactions to, the world.
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At the conclusion of the session, you will have the option of taking the notes and photos to continue journaling your experience in the sandtray and documenting new awarenesses and learnings that occur between scheduled sessions.
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life and in change, there is power. Alan Cohen
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