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by Lisa Shaw

A pioneer in the self-help movement, Shakti Gawain taught us to harness the power of creative visualization in her seminal books, Creative Visualization and Living in the Light. Once we can calm ourselves down through breath, we can enter the realm of the imagination and use our capacities to visualize for healing and well-being, not just for ourselves, but for others as well.

We all know that a thought form has vitality and power. When we feed that thought, we change our physical reality for the better — or for the worse. Therefore, we can train ourselves to modify and reverse negative thinking and obsessing, while redirecting ourselves toward success and wholeness. However, this is not a simple, quick process as Gawain tells us, “The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere ‘positive thinking.’ It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.” We cannot simply will something away or invite something into our lives in a cursory manner.

Take fear for example. It’s said that when we emphasize our fear, the inordinate amount of attention we devote to it will not eliminate them, but result in their expansion. It’s like rolling a small ball of snow. By giving it our time and attention, the fist-sized snowball accumulates more snow as we roll it along. By the end of the path, it becomes a boulder; a huge obstacle and threat that may, in fact, reverse course and roll us over. If we could have eliminated the ball in the first place, all that time and effort could have been redirected to positive outcomes. We have all succumbed to this anxiety at one time or another. Now is a good time to remind ourselves again to reclaim our thoughts using visualization.