Creative Visualization Personal Use Ebook

Table of Contents

Introduction 4
The Basics of Creative Visualization 6
What is Creative Visualization? 6
Why is Creative Visualization Important? 8
How Can Creative Visualization Help Me? 9
Takeaways for This Section 10
Using Creative Visualization 12
Some Preliminary Considerations 12
Be Aware of What You Desire 12
Choose What to Visualize 13
Prepare Your Own Road 14
The Process of Creative Visualization 15
Relaxation 15
The Creative Visualization Process 16
Takeaways for This Section 18
Advanced Visualization Techniques 20
A Glass of Water 20
Is What You Want Really What You Believe You Need? 20
It Is Polite to Say Thank You 20
Takeaways for This Section 21
Creative Visualization in Action 22
Conclusion 24

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Introduction

The term “creative visualization” may be one that you’re familiar with. In the past several years, creative visualization has been talked about in several best-selling books and has been promoted by several high profile celebrities. For a while there was a lot of media buzz around this “new” technique. People clamored to find out what it was all about. Yet, what was lost in the hoopla was the fact that creative visualization is neither new nor is it really a technique. Instead, creative visualization is a process or way of living your inner life, similar to meditation. Additionally, creative visualization has been around for a very long time.

Mankind has known howto develop an active and productive style of thinking for millennia. Artists, in all media, have long “visualized” different ways of looking at the reality of the world. Their translations of these visions have resulted in music, dance, poetry and more. In fact, the very idea of creative visualization is based on the concept of imagining something different, something that you want or desire. You are then better able to make that desire or need a reality precisely because of the visualization process. In other words, when you think hard enough about a goal, you create ways to actualize that goal. With creative visualization thinking leads to working and forward movement.

All of this means that creative visualization is a potent tool for self-development. When used properly, it can actually change your ingrained modes of behavior, leading you to greater happiness, contentment and fulfillment. Do these changes also mean increased levels of productivity and success? The answer is an emphatic “yes”! With creative visualization you can minimize or eliminate troublesome behaviors and develop and maximize positive behaviors.

The purpose of this book is to allow you to become a more focused and powerful thinker. If you think about it, we all spend a certain amount of time daydreaming and wishing for change. These mental processes are unfocused and relatively impotent. Yet, they are the first common steps on the road to being able to harness your ability to acutely visualize where you want to go and then get there.

Don’t think that all this talk about power and focus means much time and energy needs to be spent perfecting the process. Far from it! Creative visualization is actually quite easy to learn how to do properly. It will quickly and effortlessly become a natural part of your day to day life, bringing you simple happiness with every thought. Like anything worth doing, creative visualization is a process which gets better and provides more satisfaction the more it is used. Practice does indeed make perfect when it comes to creative visualization.