A Guided Practice for Releasing Tension, Calming the Psyche, and Activating the Healing Energies Within.
By Roberto Assagioli
Course of Lectures on Psychosynthesis, Psychological Exercises and Training, March 1, 1964 Assagioli Archive, Florence
Original title: Esercizio di Rilassamento e di Autosuggestione Curative
Translated by Jan Kuniholm
Editorial Note
This text is a structured healing exercise by Roberto Assagioli, delivered as part of his 1964 Course of Lectures on Psychosynthesis. The abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sorensen, to support archival consistency. The original wording has not been altered.
Abstract
This psychosynthesis exercise by Roberto Assagioli guides the practitioner through a structured sequence of relaxation and healing autosuggestion across the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of the human being. It activates the latent healing energies within, inviting the practitioner to release tension, calm the psyche, and open to the regenerating influence of the spiritual Self.
Get into a comfortable position, preferably lying down.
Take a few deep, slow, regular breaths.
Say the following statements to yourself, or have others say them to you (you can also listen to them from a recording).
It is appropriate to repeat each statement several times.
Every muscle relaxes; every nerve is at rest.
All mental work stops; every emotion quiets down.
A great calm, a great peace pervades me; a growing sense of relief, of well-being.
In this calm, in this rest, the latent energies in me awaken and victoriously assert themselves.
Vital healing energies operate beneficially in me; they pervade every cell, every fiber of my body; they reactivate and harmonize every organic function.
Every organ resumes functioning well, normally, perfectly.
The healing psychic energies operate beneficially in me; they pervade the unconscious; they calm and harmonize it.
All agitation, depression and fear disappear, dissolving like mist in the sun.
In their place, CALM, SERENITY, CONFIDENCE, HOPE, HAPPINESS, and WILL victoriously assert themselves.
The healing spiritual energies operate powerfully in me; they transform and regenerate my whole being.
I open myself to their healing influence with confident faith, with complete surrender.
