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
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.
What we create within is mirrored outside of us.
The clearer and stronger your intention, the more quickly and easily your creative visualization will work.
We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
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.
To get in touch with different aspects of your self-image, begin to ask yourself “How do I feel about myself right now?
The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.
Divine light and divine love are flowing through me and radiating from me to everything around me.
