Have you ever wanted something or someone so badly that you found yourself relentlessly obsessing about the possibilities? I think at some point in all of our lives, at least to some extent, we've all experienced this kind of nagging desire. There's nothing worse than unrequited love, be it for that special person, maybe a pet you love dearly or anything else you desperately desire.

Let me ask you something else; have you ever used your imagination to attain that desire, even if only in your mind? The next best thing, at least temporarily, to having whatever it is you desire is visualization. Visualization is just a matter of closing your eyes, taking a few deep breaths to calm the very soul of your existence and then seeing, in your mind's eye, a picture of what it is you're longing for. If you can block out all invading thoughts and focus on visualizing thoroughly, it becomes so real that it's almost as though you already have what you want. It's an acquired gift but one that can accomplish some pretty amazing feats.

In the book, "How Destiny Manifested Her Fantasy" (http://www.outskirtspress.com/howdestinymanifestedherfantasy/), this theory is put into play as the main character, Destiny, substitutes visualization for what she really wants; to be with the man she has unnwittingly fallen in love with. What starts as a simple way of filling in the long gaps of time that she doesn't see him or hear from him, spins into a fantasy of epic proportions. Fantasy mingles with reality as her visualizations lead her first to realistic dreams and then ultimately to things in her daytime reality that magically correspond with what she visualizes each night.

Now, granted, this extremely metaphysical little story is fictional. Although it starts out as a real life experience that took place, at the author's place of work, it spins more and more into an unbelievable and unfathomable fantasy filled with angels and spirits, fairies and unicorns and a couple of very gifted psychics. The foundation, the very core of this book, however, is based on what unlimited possibilities exist if we can visualize and believe in what we can make happen. Is it fiction? Yes, it is but who is to say what we can or cannot manifest into our lives? Who's to say? The biggest block to manifesting, whatever it is that we want, is the thought that we can't do this, but can we? This book definitely gives pause for thought.