List Books » Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life
Authors: Shakti Gawain
ISBN-13: 9781577312291, ISBN-10: 1577312295
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New World Library
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition
Creative visualization is the art of using mental imagery and affirmation to produce positive change in your life. Successfully used in the fields of health, business, the creative arts, and sports, it can have an impact in every area of your life. This pioneering bestseller and perennial favorite helped launch a new movement in personal growth.
Now incorporating the Creative Visualization Meditations CD a series of guided meditations created and narrated by Shakti and a ribbon marker, this elegant keepsake edition is a treasure for any seeker’s library.
This classic guide is filled with meditations, exercises, and techniques that can help you to change negative habit patterns, improve self-esteem, reach career goals, increase prosperity, develop creativity, increase vitality, improve your health, experience deep relaxation, and much more. This book can help you to increase your personal mastery of life.
Gawain's self-help title has sold more than three million copies in English and another three million in the more than 30 languages into which it has been translated. According to the publisher, this revised anniversary edition contains additional "meditations, exercises, and techniques that can become part of your everyday routine." The author asserts that people can achieve an ideal existence simply through mental visualization. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
Publisher's Preface | ix | |
Introduction to the Revised Edition | xii | |
A Letter to My Readers | xv | |
Part 1 | Basics of Creative Visualization | 1 |
What Is Creative Visualization? | 3 | |
How Creative Visualization Works | 8 | |
A Simple Exercise in Creative Visualization | 13 | |
It's Important to Relax | 16 | |
How to Visualize | 18 | |
Four Basic Steps for Effective Creative Visualization | 22 | |
Creative Visualization Works Only for Good | 25 | |
Affirmations | 27 | |
A Spiritual "Paradox" | 35 | |
Part 2 | Using Creative Visualization | 41 |
Making Creative Visualization Part of Your Life | 43 | |
Being, Doing, and Having | 47 | |
Three Necessary Elements | 49 | |
Contacting Your Higher Self | 51 | |
Going with the Flow | 55 | |
Prosperity | 59 | |
Accepting Your Good | 65 | |
Outflowing | 71 | |
Healing | 76 | |
Part 3 | Meditations and Affirmations | 85 |
Grounding Yourself and Running Energy | 87 | |
Opening the Energy Centers | 89 | |
Creating Your Sanctuary | 92 | |
Meeting Your Guide | 94 | |
Pink Bubble Technique | 98 | |
Healing Meditations | 100 | |
Invocations | 107 | |
Ways to Use Affirmations | 110 | |
Part 4 | Special Techniques | 117 |
A Creative Visualization Notebook | 119 | |
Clearing | 123 | |
Writing Affirmations | 133 | |
Setting Goals | 136 | |
Ideal Scene | 145 | |
Treasure Maps | 147 | |
Health and Beauty | 152 | |
Creative Visualization in Groups | 157 | |
Creative Visualization in Relationships | 159 | |
Part 5 | Living Creatively | 165 |
Creative Consciousness | 167 | |
Discovering Our Higher Purpose | 168 | |
Your Life Is Your Work of Art | 170 | |
Acknowledgments | 171 | |
Recommended Resources | 172 | |
About the Author | 175 |