What Exactly is Creative Visualization?

Creative Visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life. There is nothing at all new, strange or unusual about Creative Visualization. You are already using it every day, every minute in fact.

It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe, which you use constantly, whether or not you are aware of it. In the past, many of us have used our power of Creative Visualization in a relatively unconscious way. Because of our own deep-seated, negative concepts about life, we have automatically and unconsciously expected and imagined lack, limitation, difficulties and problems to be our lot in life. To one degree or another, that is what we have created for ourselves.

In Creative Visualization you use your imagination to create a clear image, idea or feeling of something you wish to manifest. Then you continue to focus on the idea, feeling or picture regularly, giving it positive energy until it becomes objective reality... in other words, until you actually achieve what you have been imagining.

To use Creative Visualization it is not necessary to believe in any metaphysical or spiritual ideas, though you must be willing to entertain certain concepts as being possible. It is not necessary to "have faith" in any power outside yourself.

The only thing necessary is that you have the desire to change or improve something in your life, and an open enough mind to try something new in a positive spirit.

 Creative Visualization �?A CASE STUDY

A great deal of impressive research has been conducted on the effects of Creative Visualization over the years. Here's just one example: Dr. Charles Garfield, Ph.D., a former NASA researcher and leading authority in sports psychology, examined the effect of mental and Creative Visualization training on four groups of world-class athletes just prior to the 1980 Lake Placid, New York Olympics. The four groups of elite athletes were divided as follows:

What the researchers found was that Group 4 �?the group with the most mental training �?had shown significantly greater improvement than Group 3.

Likewise, Group 3 showed more improvement than Group 2, and Group 2 showed more improvement than Group 1.

The results were astonishing! Who would expect that athletes training mentally would be able to advance further than their counterparts who were training physically?

Garfield explained, "During mental rehearsal, athletes create mental images of the exact movements they want to emulate in their sport. Use of this skill substantially increases the effectiveness of goal-setting, which up until then had been little more than a dull listing procedure."

If Creative Visualization could have such an astounding impact on the performance of world-class athletes, imagine what it can do for you!

Click Here to view Dr. Charles Garfield's findings.
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Your Life is Your Work of Art

Creative Visualization is magic in the truest and highest meaning of the word. It involves understanding and aligning yourself with the natural principles that govern the workings of our universe, and learning to use these principles in the most conscious and creative way.

If you had never seen a gorgeous flower or a spectacular sunset before and someone described one to you, you might consider it to be a miraculous thing (which it truly is!). Once you saw a few yourself and began to learn something about the natural laws involved, you would begin to understand how they are formed and it would seem natural to you and not particularly mysterious.

The same is true of the process of Creative Visualization. What at first might seem amazing or impossible to the very limited type of education our rational minds have received becomes perfectly understandable once we learn and practice with the underlying concepts involved.

Once you do so, it may seem that you are creating miracles in your life, and you are!

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