Our psyches operate by engaging with images.

ByKim Hermanson

Images are the psyche’s preferred way of operating.

Whether we’re aware of it or not, our brains don’t think without images. The original and basic unit of mental activity is the image.

Images are our native language.

Clients come to me feeling blocked or stuck, but when they connect with the images that lay underneath the stuckness, everything shifts.

An image will take you deeper than your ordinary thinking. It will take you to a quiet place where a different wisdom is present.

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