This is a wonderful visualization exercise for creating a safe, protected space where you can tune into the creative, cosmic light that exists within you. It is particularly powerful because it uses the spectrum of the rainbow which, of course, is the basis of white light. Attuned as it is with the divine white light, it creates a wall of protection that the harsh inner voice of criticism cannot penetrate.

I have been using it in combination with the “Inspiration” exercise for many years. These two exercises have been the key to the ten books and countless articles I’ve had published.

1. Sit in a comfortable position with your spine straight – cross-legged if you can – and begin imagining your body to be a shining, perfectly transparent container.

2. As you inhale deeply see the glass begin to fill with a shimmering red light, starting at the base of the spine and radiating upwards and outwards until your limbs, your body,

and your head are filled with this glowing light.

3. Exhale. As you inhale, focus again on the base of your spine and see the red light turning gradually from red to red-orange to orange. Visualize the shimmering orange light begin

to radiate upwards and outwards until your body is filled with this rich orange light.

4. Next, visualize the color yellow. It is as if you are breathing in the color – as it flows in the orange fades and turns into the pure, brilliant yellow light of the sun.

5. Next comes a radiant green which will flood in and replace the yellow.

6. Next you will breathe in the color blue, then purple, and then violet.

7. Finally, see the sparkling violet fade back into the white light. See your entire self filled with pure, glimmering, sparkling, radiant white light. Sit for a moment in this light inhaling slowly and deeply.

8. Begin to focus your thought on the light around your heart, see it increase in intensity and then begin to move down your arm, out your pen, and onto the paper – or into whatever expression of creativity you desire…

If You Are New to Creative Visualization or Meditation

There is no great secret to creative visualization. It is simply “seeing” in the same way you see when you day dream or imagine anything. Sometimes it is called seeing on the “screen of the mind” or seeing with the “mind’s eye”.

That said, because different senses are dominant in different people, not everyone actually “visualizes” when they do creative visualization exercises. You may simply get a sense of the way a particular color makes you feel or – if you happen to be very musical and not at all visual, for instance – you might want to imagine the seven notes of the musical scale along with the colors.

Sometimes even very visual people only see a flash of color in the beginning. If a color isn’t coming through clearly it sometimes helps to just imagine something like an apple or an orange…

One trick learned when I was having trouble visualizing early on was to say to myself. “I will NOT imagine an apple right not. I will NOT see its its shiny red skin!” The image of a bright red apple would then immediately flash before my mind’s eye.