Creative Visualization Archives

Night Magic: Create Solutions in Your Dreams

Have you ever heard the saying: “Sleep on it and you’ll feel better in the morning”? Well it’s true– a good night sleep full of restorative dreams makes everything seem easier to deal with… It’s also an opportunity to tap into your intuition to solve problems and arrive at creative solutions. You may even receive additional information you don’t have access to as easily in waking life. In this video, I share 3 Steps for using what I call Night Magic, or Dreamwork to receive inspiration and answers to assist you with whatever your heart is working through…

By Christine Mattschei| June 27th, 2013|Categories: Random Inspiration|Tags: Creative Visualization, creativity, dreaming, Dreams, dreamwork, Intuition, night magic, solutions, solving problems|9 Comments

What are the Exact Steps for Visualizing Healing and Change?

Okay, so you know the basics of creative visualization are getting into a relaxed state and then visualizing what you would like to happen. If you'd like more information about the basic steps, you can start by reading a four part series I wrote about detailed visualization here or sign up for my newsletter to get my free ebook (where I explain more) if you haven't yet. But once you get started, a whole bunch of other questions come up. Like what exactly should you visualize for the best effect? And how long or how often should you practice visualization for? Does spending more time at it indefinitely increase the effect, or is there a tipping point? These are some questions I received from a reader recently, and I'd like to address them in today's post here.

By Christine Mattschei| March 26th, 2012|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Meditation, Random Inspiration|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualiation, healing, law of attraction, Steps for Visualization|21 Comments

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part IV: 5 Tips for Effective Visualization

For the past month, I've been examining the question: ~How detailed do your visualizations need to be in order to be effective?~ My own personal experiences taught me that it doesn't really matter--both detailed and general approaches work! But very detailed visualizations can get sticky if they involve circumstances outside of the Self. I found this sentiment echoed by other people who shared their knowledge about visualization and manifesting. Taking all of it together, it seemed that general might be the way to go. Being general allows more possibilities to complete your end result and keeps you from getting too attached to the details. But the research I found on visualization surprised me--it seems to be more in favor of making visualizations detailed and specific. Strange! Of course, the research I found was limited to visualizations that involve only the Self, such as visualizing a specific healing process, improving physical performance, or changing personal habits (like becoming more extroverted). So taking all of this together, what is the best approach?

By Christine Mattschei| October 31st, 2011|Categories: Manifesting|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualization|1 Comment

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part III: How Visualization Works

One of the side effects of going to school for psychology is that I'll probably always want to do a literature search to answer any lingering questions I have about behavior even if I don't have to hand in a term paper and no one is going to be checking my references. :) But the main reason for it is--wouldn't it be amazing to have actual evidence that there are techniques that really work for manifesting? Sometimes we have a hard time developing habits for things that we already know will work (like exercise)--but with something like manifesting it can be even harder, because it's somewhat ephemeral, and we're not even really sure what *it* is, even if we know it's a process. So that's what this post is all about. After sharing what my personal experiences have taught me and those of others, I want to share with you what the research shows.

By Christine Mattschei| October 25th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting|Tags: Creative Visualization, Visualization Research, Visualization Studies|4 Comments

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part II: What I’ve Learned From Others

Shakti Gawain: Getting Clear The first book I ever read on manifesting and visualization was Shakti Gawain's "Creative Visualization." It's still my favorite book on the topic, and one of the most influential books I've ever read. I've read the book again and again many different times, and the overall feeling that I come away with is that a preference in approach regarding how detailed a visualization or a specific desire should be is not given. There is definitely a warning not to force anything and not to be too attached to the outcome. If anything, my impression is that the more detailed and specific you are, the better. I did find one statement while I was flipping through it again where Shakti says that once she has a very clear, strong intention to create a particular thing, it manifests almost immediately (often within hours or days of getting clear about it) with very little effort involved. She goes on to say this is the case after a great deal of time and energy processing before the clarity needed to be worked through is achieved.

By Christine Mattschei| October 18th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualization|7 Comments

How Detailed Does Your Visualization Need to Be? Part I

When I first started experimenting with manifesting and visualizations, I wanted very specific things. This is normal--most of us come to this practice because we want specific things rather than general ones. In my case, I wanted a specific relationship I was in to deepen and be full of peace rather than full of drama and uncertainty. While you can never change another person's mind or behavior, it is definitely possible to affect others by changing yourself and engaging God/The Universe to shift the energy you're in and help out.

By Christine Mattschei| October 11th, 2011|Categories: Law of Attraction, Manifesting, Synchronicity|Tags: Creative Visualization, Detailed Visualization|5 Comments