There’s Nothing You Can not Do If You Find Your ‘Hidden Self’

Creative Visualization

Written by Shakti Gawain, Translated by Park, Yoon-Jung, 216 Pages, 6,900 Won, Published by Do Sol

There is a saying that ‘everything is up to how you make your min.’ It means that you should think that ‘you can overcome’ any difficult situations. However, it is not easy to carry out. Human beings are giving up too many things in their reality and worrying about their unclear future. Thus, ‘to control your mind’ can affect your life immensely.

Creative Visualization is a meditating essay book to show you the way to use 100% of your hidden abilities in human mind. It is recording a selling of over 3 million copies since the first edition in 1978 in the US. A famous talk show host Oprah Winfrey introduced it as the ‘book that awakened my life anew.

This book was translated in 25 countries world wide, and more than 100,000 copies were sold in Korea since February 2000. The author, who was mentally treated for 10 years, organized his thoughts about how to solve the internal fears, anxieties, and conflicts based on his experience when he was 30. Unlike the other meditating books that were known as ideal and difficult, it conveys the easy way to control your mind with principles of psychology and meditation. This book advises you to △imagine the things you want, △relax your body and mind, and △keep practicing to talk to yourself the words that encourage your self.

The publisher said, “It seems that the ‘visualization,’ which is a way to make dreams come true with sound imagination, helped the readers to find the ‘hidden self’ by leading them to the world of positivism,” and “it is one of the reasons for success to changed the original name that was ‘Creative Visualization’ to the easier one.”

Every problem is starting within me. If you need a change, you must have a thought that ‘I can do it.’ The author emphasizes, “If you have a definite and sincere hope, you can have what you want.”

Tae-Hun Hwang beetlez@donga.com