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Summary: You must already be successful!
Review: I read this 17 years ago and found it interesting, though it really didn't help me much. Several of my friends have also read it and it seems to have worked miracles for them. I agree with a previous reviewer who said that this book will work for a certain strata of society (mainly overly educated upper middle class liberals)! Everyone I know who has experienced success thru reading this book was already living an extremely comfortable life. This book simply helped them succeed further in new areas.
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Summary: This book is EXCELLENT
Review: I used this book for different areas of my life. Everything that I believed in my to be -- was! I changed my thoughts. I began to view myself differently--more postively and things in my life began to change. Instead of attracting the same type of negative energy I began to attract postive people, places, experiences, and events all because I changed my mind and began to experience love and loving for the first time in my life. Love is Good for me!This book is excellent I recommend it for people everywhere!
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Summary: I'm Finally Convinced
Review: Well, well, well, when I practiced these techniques three years ago, I gave them my best shot but didn't really think that anything would come of it. I was in a dead end office job and secretly dreamed of being an actor. I drew a treasure map as the book specified and put it away - in the picture was me with two very well known actresses. Three years later - I've been in two films this year, with both of those actresses!!! I'm still in shock!!! Thanks to Shakti
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Summary: Useful and practical
Review: A lot many books on the subject of "consciousness" describe theory. Although it is good to know theory for the obvious reasons, unless one knows the practical aspect of application of theory, a theory is only a theory. It is here that Shakti Gawain's book Creative Visualization scores a point. The book is full of useful and practical tips, exercises and techniques devoid of voluminous theory on creative visualisation. If one does follow these techniques with the devotion which they deserve, one is sure to benifit immensely from them. I suggest everyone interested in self improvement read this book.
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Summary: Creative Visualization
Review: I have read a lot of self-help books and this one is the best I have read. This book takes you through techniques of relaxation and visualization successfully. I am now practicing visualization because of this book, and I can tell you that within a few weeks after I started I have been seeing solid results. I now practices the techniques everyday. It makes you welcome each and everyday of your life.
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Summary: Creative Fizzle-ization. . .
Review: ...actually. . . I'm heartened by the fact that so many of our reviewers were so successful with Shakti's method. I, however, was not so lucky. Shakti Gawain's method as outlined in her book, CREATIVE VISUALIZATION, which I owned and studied every day, was actually the beginning of a major downward trend for me. One really needs expert guidance in life, and one doesn't always find it from sources like Gawain. Suffice it to say that the disasters I experienced after working with Shakti's "techniques" are taking me a long time to recover from. Today, I am actually on medication. Coupled with the added "benefit" of some pretty misguided so-called "therapy," you can visualize and actualize 'til the cows come home, and still wind up in hell. A market is a market, and commercialization is commercialization. Books like these are wriiten and designed to succeed and to sell to a certain market. Success for the reader is occassionally secondary, hoiwever sincere the writer's original intentions may have been. These techniques also work best for a certain kind of pre-orientated mind-set. In other words, it is best to pre-arrange your mind with a sea of books and tapes like these, before beginning these techniques. I thought I was liberal, open-minded, and imaginative enough. I was certainly creative and artistic enough. But an "alternative awareness" isn't all one needs to succeed with techniques like these. It's probably best to be in a non-manipulative, supportive environment while rebuilding one's life employing these techniques. Self-honesty, too, is of the utmost. And expert guidance from wise souls who know, love, and appreciate you has a value beyond words. I had previously purchased another of Shakti's books ("Reunion",) and even owned and worked with her Creative Visualizatuion Workbook of the time (20 years ago.) All to know avail. When disaster struck, due to the odd combination of people in my life, who I thought I could handle thanks to false confidence instilled by bad therapy and wayward "visualization," it was no use. Perhaps I can use the techniques better now. The sadness of these books is, they seem more geared to "help" a sort of upper-middle-class, trust-fund liberal market than anyone else. Perhaps the reader might have a little more luck with a book like, say, THE GAME OF LIFE by Florence Scovel Shinn (check reviews.)
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Summary: Get a life...the one you really want
Review: I first read this book in 1990. It changed my life. Since then, I've given it to at least ten other people along with the workbook. Although I still have my raggedy, dog eared, coffee stained, back cover missing, first copy, I've purchased back up copies for myself. I have re-read some sections many times. I stumbled upon my treasure map and workbook in the basement several years after the first reading. To my amazement, I had accomplished the majority of the goals I'd set. Most of the ones I had not met had lost their appeal by then, or were no longer relevant. Since practicing Shakti's visualization methods for the last 12 years, I increased my salary three-fold, well into six figures in the last nine years, we're practically debt-free, I've lost weight, and my relationship with my husband has completely and positively altered. I was laid off in a downsizing recently, and you know what, based on what I know to be true, "This or something better for the higher good of all" is in store for me. I see it as an opportunity for more growth! This book is not rocket science. Its simplicity is beautiful, but like most transformational work, it only works if you work it Rock on Shakti!!
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Summary: So light, so fluffy....
Review: ...it's almost not even a book! It's "reddi-whip!" If you want whipped cream in a can for the mind this is your book. If you want to get what you want start with "The Powermind System" -- it's a compendium of some of the best and most utilized self-help techniques. This Shakti Gawain is for lightweights only.
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Summary: A classic of the genre
Review: This has become quite a classic, judging by the great number of other books that refer to it or list it in their bibliographies. It explains what creative visualization is, how it works and provides easy techniques to apply it successfully. In addition, it provides useful information on meditation, evocation, treasure maps plus the proper use of affirmation - many good examples of affirmations are provided. There's a bibliography of books, tapes and music and the text is enhanced by black and white illustrations and inspiring mandala symbols. A very practical and useful guide to self-realisation and a handy reference work.
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Summary: Life changing!
Review: This book comes across as being a little out there, but when a friend gave it to me, I read it and it literally changed my life!
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