Creative Visualization February 7, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [Books], Consciousness, Creativity, Gratitude, Goals, Psychology, Purpose, Relationships, Beliefs, Vision, Abilities , 3 comments
Shakti Gawain’s Creative Visualization is more than the title indicates. In fact, how to visualize something in order to create what you desire is very briefly explained. The biggest portion delves into the different kinds of things you can accomplish or have in your life, what inner beliefs may be rooted in you that block you from using your creative power of the law of attraction, and also how to reach a meditative state that serves as the best way to have creative visualization work for you.
My own interpretation and what I thought of the book is that it’s 50 % about creative visualization and another 50 % of personal psychology and life lessons that help you to lead a more fulfilled life. To understand the power of intention-manifestation and have it work well, you need to first work on your inner beliefs of what you rightfully deserve, why your natural state is that of joy, prosperity and self-worth, and what the power of your own mind really includes and controls.
The richness found in the book is the many methods that aid and complete the art of successful creative visualization. Among them are meditation, using several senses to visualize, affirmations, the link to spirituality, acceptance, healing, energy flow and centers, sanctuary, invocations, writing a notebook, clearing, goal-setting, idealizing, treasure maps and creative visualization within relationships and groups.
I found it very interesting how much in common there is to this book and what I have been writing about in this blog. There’s the question of what you want, do or are, how the beliefs about yourself are more important than what others think of you, why prosperity is your birthright and how to use a positive attitude to get what you want in life instead of perpetuating what you don’t like about yourself and your circumstances.
Creative visualization has been in the bookstores for quite some time already and I can see that it has had quite an impact in the teachings of many great personal development coaches of today. My copy is a 25th anniversary edition and it also includes some examples of what kind of results the technique has manifested. This book is a worthwhile read and daily reference to visualization to anyone who isn’t yet totally satisfied with how their life has turned out or who don’t enjoy every minute of it.
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Urge to Glurge February 5, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [Articles], Communication, Entertainment, Beliefs, Vision , 2 comments
The term glurge was coined in 1998 by contributor Pat Chapin at Snopes.com and has divided people’s opinions towards both sides of the love/hate spectrum. Here are a couple of definitions:
Glurge: n. & v.
- The sending of inspirational (often supposedly ‘true’) tales that conceal much darker meanings than the uplifting moral lessons they purport to offer, and that undermine their messages by fabricating and distorting historical fact in the guise of offering a ‘true story’.
- A neologism describing a certain kind of melodramatic, saccharine story. The defining characteristic of glurge is that, while its purpose is to make the reader happy (and possibly teach a moral lesson), the feel-good aspect is so overdone that some readers are likely to be nauseated rather than inspired. It often has a religious theme and is most commonly circulated via e-mail in the form of a chain letter.
Here are a few sources if you’re interested in the genre:
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/
http://glurge.com/
http://www.wolaver.org/Humor/glurge.htm
And these links lead to anti-glurge sites and opinions:
http://www.antwon.com/other/glurge-scam1.html
http://www.gregvail.com/sys-tmpl/glurgehoax/
Glurge may be found in e-mails or SMS messages sometimes telling you that bad things will happen to you if you don’t forward the story to a given amount of your contacts. Then again, snopes has done a good job in referencing the most common glurge stories and it goes to show that some tales do stand at a sufficient level of veracity. The question is then how sugar-coated the writing ought to be to make the best impact.
While I do believe in tales serving a good purpose as well, I got saturated by glurge after a day and haven’t thought much of it until I decided to write this entry. I would therefore classify my thoughts on the matter as quite indifferent. To each his own. But attempting to evoke guilt for not passing it forward is just annoying. So what are your opinions about the issue? Does glurge inspire you and keep you hungry or is it a disgusting phenomenon that is rooted in deluded and wishful thinking? How about 9/11 glurge?
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