Cure means the end of symptoms. The first step in the curing process is taken when you begin caring for yourself.

Imaginal meditation strongly emphasises that you help heal yourself, that you become your own healer to the extent that this is possible. The practice of mental imagery is meant to help you discover and use your own inherent resources, to give you the tools that allow you to help cure yourself and to augment what you are doing if you are under the guidance of your doctor.

When someone is being guided in imaginal meditations, the situation is not unlike a conversation carried on in the language of pictures. Patient and guide are engaged in an active collaboration in which each act of the patient's imaging necessitates  that the guide be equally active in “receiving” the images. 

With imaginal meditation, when our instruction ends, you turn from patient into self-healer. Like physical exercise, imaginal workouts are more effective when practiced regularly. Their benefits are both immediately rewarding and cumulative, bringing new balance into the disorder from which you have been suffering.

Body and mind are two aspects of the same human experience: the body is quantitative, the mind is qualitative. Thus, even if a clinician cannot locate a physical disturbance to explain your physical complaint, and says to you “It’s all in your mind”, there is still a physical event going on. If it is in your mind, it is in your body too. They are analogies of each other.