Creative Visualization for Beginners (Llewellyn's For Beginners, 20) - Softcover

Webster, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738708070 ISBN 13: 9780738708072

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 2006

Synopsis

You have the ability to visualize success and manifest each one of your hopes and dreams. A natural capacity of the human mind, creative visualization helps millions of people achieve their goals.

Creative visualization will empower you to make positive, lasting changes in your own life. Award-winning author Richard Webster presents an effective system for making your dreams come true, including methods for handling difficulties along the way. Try a variety of simple activities and easy-to-follow techniques to:

• Improve your health
• Build rewarding relationships
• Advance your career and earn more money
• Supercharge your creativity
• Nurture and restore your soul

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About the Author

Richard Webster (New Zealand) is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books. Richard has appeared on several radio and television programs in the US and abroad, including guest spots on WMAQ-TV (Chicago), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), and KSTW-TV (Seattle). He travels regularly, lecturing and conducting workshops on a variety of metaphysical subjects. His titles include Pendulum Magic for Beginners, Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians, Palm Reading for Beginners, and Llewellyn's Complete Book of Divination. Learn more at www.Psychic.co.nz.

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Chapter one

what is creative visualization?

"The mind is everything; what you think, you become." -Buddha

"When I was very young," said Arnold Schwarzenegger, "I visualized myself being and having what it was I wanted. Mentally I never had any doubts about it. The mind is really so incredible. Before I won my first Mr. Universe title, I walked around the tournament like I owned it. The title was already mine. I had won it so many times in my mind that there was no doubt I would win it. Then when I moved on to the movies, the same thing. I visualized myself being a famous actor and earning big money. I could feel and taste success. I just knew it would all happen."

Creative visualization is the art of creating pictures in your mind to obtain whatever it is that you desire. Some people, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, use it instinctively, but most people need to learn how to do it. It is arguably the most useful skill you could ever master, as it can totally transform your life. You can use creative visualization to change your circumstances, progress in your career, improve your health, eliminate negative habits, and even attract love, money, and any other goal. Amazingly, there is nothing strange or remarkable about this incredible creative power that we all possess. Everyone who has achieved great success in life has used this power consciously or unconsciously.

Walt Disney is an example of someone who believed in creative visualization and used it to create his entertainment empire. He called the process "imagineering." When you visit Disneyland or Disney World you are seeing examples of "the dream that you wish will come true." Many years ago, I heard a story that I like to think is true. Apparently, years after Disneyland and Disney World were completed, someone said to Mike Vance, the Creative Director of Walt Disney Studios, "Isn't it a shame that Walt Disney didn't live long enough to see this?" Apparently, Mike Vance replied, "But he did see it. That's why it's here." Walt Disney may well have been the world's greatest creative visualizer.

No matter what your present situation may be, you are using your creative mind to attract to you whatever it is you think about all the time. If you think you're unlucky or unfortunate, for instance, your subconscious mind will make this a reality. Most people use this ability unknowingly, and are not aware that they can deliberately use creative visualization to transform their lives. It's sad that most people use the incredible potential of creative visualization for negative purposes, when, with just a little effort, they could use it to achieve positive and productive goals.

Years ago, I met a man who told me how unlucky he was. He recounted a sad story of all the terrible things that had happened to him. He looked at me in amazement when I said that I believe we create our own luck in life.

"Do you think I'd deliberately inflict all this pain and suffering on myself?" he demanded.

Of course, he hadn't done it deliberately. He was simply unaware that his negative thoughts had created all the misfortune he had experienced.

Fortunately, many people are the complete opposite. They consider themselves fortunate, talented, or blessed in other ways, and as a result, these qualities are manifested in their lives.

You have probably heard the story of the half-filled glass of water. Positive people tend to think that the glass is half-full, while negative people consider it half-empty. Both points of view are correct. All the same, which group of people do you think live happier, richer lives?

I'm sure that many people are born with a predisposition toward positivity or negativity. However, this can be changed. If you tend to look on the gloomy or negative side of every situation, you can use creative visualization to change your approach to life. Even if you have become negative as a result of events that have occurred in the past, you can use creative visualization to turn your life around and become more positive. It is important that you do this. When you think in a negative manner, you act in the same way. Your body language, voice, and general approach will reveal your negativity to others. And, not surprisingly, you will attract more negativity.

Thousands of years ago, Aristotle taught that imagery was an essential part of thought, and that we simply can't think without pictures. He believed that motivation came about when someone either saw (or sensed) something, or imagined it, by creating or remembering the image in his or her mind. Over the centuries, different thinkers, such as Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes, expressed similar views. However, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this view came under attack, as people were considered to be nothing more than "conscious automatons." As a result, psychologists virtually ignored visualization until Robert Holt wrote a paper called "Imagery: The Return of the Ostracized" in 1964.

Your thoughts create your reality. By changing your thoughts, and focusing on what you want in your life, you have the power to create the life you have always dreamed about. You possess a magnificent, creative imagination. Absolutely everything begins in the mind. Every time you think a thought, you are creating energy. If someone calls you a dreamer, you should take it as a compliment, as nothing will happen until after someone has imagined it in his or her mind. Daydreaming is valuable, as it allows you to think about what you most desire in your life.

With creative visualization, you use your imagination to create a clear impression of whatever...(Continues)

Edition details

• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738708070
• ISBN 13: 9780738708072
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264