Use your progressive relaxation and breathing to facilitate this process. Some people concentrate on total-body healing and visualize a color or sound that represents healing as it moves slowly through their entire body, cell by cell. Some people combine these techniques and images. Use visualization to create a meditative, self-hypnotic state focused on healing. Practice this daily, as often as possible throughout the day.
Visualization is also helpful as a form of distraction from pain.
Use your imagery to pull yourself away from your body to a scene or favorite experience. Finally, you may find this technique helpful to facilitate sleep. Bring yourself into a very relaxed state, feel drowsiness come into your body, and allow yourself to fall asleep. The prospect of prolonged recovering from an injury can be daunting for anyone. The success you experience will be anchored in developing both your physical and psychological capacities to their fullest.