At The Water's Edge
Creative Visualization
I think I first discovered Creative Visualization through Jose Silva's book: The Mind Control Method which was about 24 years ago and then Shakti Gawain's book: Creative Visualization not long after.
I can't say I've had any success with it over that time (I haven't been practising vigorously hard it has to be said.) However recently, with my writing this section of the website my interest in it has been piqued and it has to be said there have been some things that have happened recently which could be just coincidences but were definitely thought about or visualized before hand.
One of the things that Creative Visualization did help me with all those years ago is meditation. Again this is something that I haven't practiced vigorously but the Silva Mind Control Method offers a very simple method of counting backwards from 100 repeatedly (for you mathematical pedants out there stop at 0 and go back to a 100!) and that at times has felt like it has put me "back in touch" with myself. I suspect I don't need to meditate as much as I think part of my writing fulfills the same purpose.
In a way Creative Visualization shouldn't be such a big leap. For example, when we sing I think we "hear"the notes in our head before we actually sing them. As someone who doesn't have a natural talent in this regard and had to be taught to listen and then imagine the note, it kind of makes sense. I know one is related to the body and the other to some thing else but there seems to be a bit of a connection there. At the very least, that the way we imagine a note, is how we first imagine something happening in Creative Visualization.
(Apologies to my English readers - as an Englishman I should be using the English spelling of Visualization with an "s" but since it's predominately an American method, most spell it with a "z".)
