April 1, 2010 on 10:00 am
From the desk of the Spiritual Explorer
Shakti Gawain
It feels as if Shakti Gawain has been around forever. Shakti Gawain burst upon the scene in the 80’s with her now well-known book Creative Visualization. Creative Visualization was all about empowering persons to utilize their innate and inborn abilities to create what they truly wanted in this world. No longer was one to think of themselves as just standing by as destiny rolled out their lives. Shakti Gawain encouraged you to think that you had the power to manifest in life whatever you wished.
The thoughts were revolutionary and heralded a new age that was called the New Age movement. Shakti Gawain was truly considered the shakti and prime mover of the New Age. Her books, all ten of them, talked about channeling energies in a good direction, strengthening self-esteem, experiencing deep relaxation through methods of breathing and yoga postures and improving good health. Oprah Winfrey herself said, “I do believe, and I have seen in my own life that Creative Visualization works.” The New Age Journal said of Shakti Gawain: “She provides us with the means to be our own instruments in dramatically and positively changing our lives.” Shakti Gawain is truly a pioneer of self-realization and self-empowerment.
One of Shakti Gawain’s real contributions was to awaken people to their intuition. She stated, “Intuition is a birthright, but many have lost touch with it. If embraced and followed, intuition can be an accurate force that permeates all facets of life.” Repeatedly throughout Shakti Gawain’s books and especially in her book, Developing Intuition, she teaches readers how to tap into their inner knowledge and use it to enhance their lives and attain their goals.
Developing Intuition was Shakti Gawain’s definitive guide to intuitive awakening, and now at Ma’s India we are proud to have Shakti’s Developing Intuition Deck containing 52 daily life inspiration cards. Shakti Gawain’s deck comes in a box with a prop-up frame for easy display of the card you are using for ongoing contemplation. Culled from her book Deveoping Intuition, these cards contain intuitive meditations for each day or week. These intutition cards provide a simple method to access and develop your intutition in daily life.
As one other great sage has said, “Intuition is nothing less than the voice of God or Spirit speaking to you.”
What a great gift Shakti Gawain has given to the New Age movement!