Guided imagery
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Guided imagery (also known as guided affective imagery, or katathym-imaginative psychotherapy) is a mind-body intervention by which a trained practitioner or teacher helps a participant or patient to evoke and generate mental images[1] that simulate or recreate the sensory perception[2][3] of sights,[4][5] sounds,[6] tastes,[7] smells,[8] movements,[9] and images associated with touch, such as texture, temperature, and pressure,[10] as well as imaginative or mental content that the participant or patient experiences as defying conventional sensory categories,[11] and that may precipitate strong emotions or feelings[12][13][14] in the absence of the stimuli to which correlating sensory receptors are receptive.[15][16]
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The practitioner or teacher may facilitate this process in person to an individual or a group or you may do it with a virtual group. Alternatively, the participant or patient may follow guidance provided by a sound recording, video, or audiovisual media comprising spoken instruction that may be accompanied by music or sound.[17]