Creative Visualization for Beginners (For Beginners (Llewellyn's)) by Webster, Richard (2006) Paperback

by Richard Webster

Simple Techniques for
Making Your Dreams Come True

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

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality

Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

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Richard Webster is an author, ghostwriter, mentalist, hypnotist and magician.

Reviews

[Diana Alksne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Please, don't pay for 270 pages when all of those can be summed up into "Thoughts come true". These books are so harmful to a person with little common sense that I feel obliged to beg you NOT to buy and encourage such wishful thinking, and very boringly written at that.
It goes like this:
"You can use creative visualization when playing basketball. Just visualize this, this and this... (and it goes on for a full page).
Next page:
"You can also use it for golf. Tiger Woods used to visualize... etc." For another page. And then all sorts of sports imaginable. Yes, we get it - you get paid for the number of words! You won't get paid as much for "Thoughts come true". I also had to be paid for words when translating it, but I did not get the full some, and I really think it's karma. I felt such pangs of conscience while translating this utter BS that I thought - surely it was an evil thing to stupidify people with such ungrounded ideas. And so the universe responded - you did an evil thing by translating it and you shall not be rewarded.
I'm not bitter for not getting paid, I'm really angry people get away with writing shit.

[Heidi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this to be quite similar to Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization. Webster included a lot more potential uses of the process.

[Mike Weis · Rating 5 out of 5]

step by step instructions

This book is so clear, with many down to earth examples of a process that can seem totally out of this world, but it has given me the confidence to try creative visualization in a way that I never have before.

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of an introduction. Definitely requires supplemental reading.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not what I was hoping for.
Don’t believe in many of these thoughts on visualization
Need Jesus everyday.

[Robin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers a good overview of creative visualization but also gets into some esoteric elements that reflect the author’s interests and background. Richard Webster has written beginners’ books about numerology, palm reading, amulets, spirit guides, and other such topics. I enjoyed the practical aspects of the book, which were simple and straightforward, but was less interested in such topics as meeting my guardian angel and building a secret room for myself with my imagination. Still, the visualization method described is easier to understand and put to use than any other I’ve read, and I have read many.

After some preliminary chapters on beliefs, relaxation, and desire, Webster gives us the chapter “Creative Visualization 101.” He describes a simple and concise method for beginning creative visualization, then talks about potential difficulties. A chapter on affirmations as an enhancement for visualization follows. Most of the rest of the book gives examples and case histories of how others have used creative visualization, for example to improve health, self esteem, creativity, relationships, and career. My favorite chapter, “When It Doesn’t Work,” follows. Like a troubleshooting guide for his visualization method, it simply states common problems that get in the way of manifesting what is visualized.

This book is well worth a look if you’re interested in an understandable method to try creative visualization. It is very easy to read. Just skip over the more esoteric stuff if it doesn’t appeal to you.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

a colorful and nicely illustrated book on how to find your inner potential.

[K.D. Bissonette · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting....

[Jazz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Waste of a good tree.

[D.S. Newman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recommend this to anyone interested in thinking outside the box.

[Ayodele]

I'm definitely looking forward to using some of these amazing techniques :)

[Heather]

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