Yollana Shore, a therapist adept at this work, employs many therapeutic techniques in her guided imagery scripts. In crafting these scripts, she pays careful attention to language. For example, in setting a scene, she might say, ‘I wonder what would happen if you were to find yourself waking up in the year 2012?’ The phrase ‘I wonder what would happen if’ will often allow the participant to picture the proposed scenario without feeling overly controlled or directed. When asking participants to do something actively within the scene (to hear, see, feel, walk forward, and so on), Yollana might say something like, ‘Just allow yourself to look closely at the kinds of people who are here with you in the park’. In contrast to direct commands such as ‘Now, walk up the stairs’ or ‘I want you to listen to the sounds on the street...’, the phrase, ‘Just allow yourself’, used liberally in a script, permits participants to feel guided without feeling controlled.