Shakti Gawain
American Writer
| Date of Birth | : | 30 Sep, 1948 |
| Date of Death | : | 11 Nov, 2018 |
| Place of Birth | : | United States |
| Profession | : | Writer |
| Nationality | : | American |
Shakti Gawain is an author and proponent of what she calls "personal development". Her books have sold over 10 million copies, according to her website. Gawain's best known book is "Creative Visualization". She has also written "Living in the Light", "Awakening", "Meditations", "The Path of Transformation", "The Four Levels of Healing", "Creating True Prosperity" and "Developing Intuition". She is the co-founder, with Marc Allen, of New World Library Publishing Company and founder of Nataraj Publishing, a division of New World Library.
Early Life and Education
Born Carol Louisa Gawain, she graduated from the University of California with a degree in fine arts and dance in the mid 1970s.
Career
Gawain is best known for her book Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Life (1978). The book focuses primarily on making changes to visual mental imagery, and attributes to it the capacity for hindering or facilitating an individual's potential, citing vivid anecdotal stories drawn from her experience and that of others to support her thesis.
The first line of the book reads "Creative Visualization is the technique of creating what you want in your life". The following paragraphs define imagination as the "creative energy of the universe", and introduces the book as a means by which to use the so-defined imagination to "create what you truly want — love, fulfillment, enjoyment, satisfying relationships, rewarding work, self-expression, health, beauty, prosperity, inner peace, and harmony."
The book has been a bestseller for nearly 40 years. Subsequent to the popularity of the book, the practice of creative visualization, remained a staple and stable feature within the New Age movement, self-help media, and popular psychology of the 1980s, 1990s, and first decade of the 21st century.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual sadness.
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
you create your opportunities by asking for them
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.
When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen.
