Secrets of Creative Thinking

Our purpose is to find the quickest and most efficient techniques for producing happy, peaceful, joyous, healthy and prospering ideas by learning how to tap into this infinite resource of our right brain hemisphere. The key to this is a technique called creative visualization which if you practice daily for at least 21 days, you will see a marked difference in your creative ability. For fifteen minutes before you go to bed and fifteen minutes after you wake in the morning, I want you to prop yourself up in the bed. Turn off the TV, radio and disconnected the telephone. Make it clear to your family that you are not to be disturbed during these most important 15 minutes.

Count backwards slowly from 25 to 1, relaxing your entire body. With each retrogressive count, you will relax more and more and more. You are to now visualize yourself in your office or some other room familiar to you, and imagine that you are standing in front of and talking with a famous expert on your subject be he or she living or dead, real or imaginary like the character you might have read in a book.

For example, if you are an artist and you have a problem coming up with newer and more creative ideas, you would, say, imagine yourself standing in the room with Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. If you are in need of money-making ideas that would serve you to prosper more in your present circumstance. You could see yourself in the company of three billionaires, like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey and Bob Johnson. If you are having relationship or marital problems, you could see yourself in the room with, Dr. David Viscott, Dale Carnegie and Dr. Laura Schlessinger. You get the idea. (contd. below)

Just make sure that you choose three experts that you admire and would choose to be in the room in real life were that possible.

Whomever you choose to be your imaginary “mental couselor”, mentally see yourself greeting him or her, and see him or her responding in turn. This is the technique: Let us say that you have a new business idea that you are trying to develop, and you would like to know of the best way to go about and get started to license and franchise it. You would simple pose a question like, “Mr. Gates, what in your opinion, is the first thing that I should do in my present situation to get started licensing my idea?” Pay attention here for this is key. The first thought that pops into your mind is your imaginary counselor’s answer. Have a Mead® mini legal pad in your hand along with a pencil as you will write what comes to you–with your eyes closed–with the idea and answer is still fresh in your mind.

(With practice, you can write pretty decently on a small note pad; it make look a little scratchy, but you usually will be able to make it out.)

In the beginning, it will feel as though you are “making these answers up”. This is the right feeling. Three things you will find as you practice this technique:

1) These imaginary answers will come faster and better each time.

2) Ideas will pop into your head when you least expect it all throughout the day.
(So always keep a note pad and pen handy.)

3) When you practice this visualization just before you go to sleep, you will
increasingly have and remember dreams that will give you rich and creative
ideas. Be not surprised when you awake at 4:00 a.m. with your head pregnant
with really great and creative ideas ready for execution.

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