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An Easy
Approach to Breakthrough Thinking
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Just
like exercising to condition your muscles, your mind also works best if
it is challenged frequently with creative thinking exercises.
From my personal experience, the first hours of the morning seem to be
a golden time for ideas and insights. Many times, inspirations have
come to me while I'm in the shower. And it has been so for many of
history's greatest thinkers.
In the early morning hours, our minds are largely uncluttered, free of
many problems and concerns -- making our conscious minds especially
receptive to hunches, insights and ideas that percolate up from the
subconscious.
So how can you develop a daily exercise program to strengthen your
brain's creative faculties? Here's a simple method that only requires
four simple things: an hour alone with a good cup of coffee or tea, a
pad of paper, a pencil or pen, and an open mind.
Try this simple brainstorming
technique, and see what results you get.
1. Pick a Problem or Opportunity
You're going to want to give your powerful subconscious mind
something
to chew on just before you go to sleep. Just before sleep spend a
half-hour or so contemplating a current problem, challenge or
opportunity. Then when you lay down to sleep, just forget about it.
Your subconscious mind operates 24/7 - and is the source of almost all
of your truly creative "ah-ha" ideas. Once you have posed the problem
and gone to sleep, your subconscious mind will go to work sorting
through all of the knowledge and insights you've collected over your
life looking for insights and answers.
2. Carve Out a Creative Time Space
The next morning get up one hour before anyone else. Sit down
in a
comfortable chair with a cup of coffee or tea, a pad of paper, and your
favorite pen or pencil.
3. Do a "Brain Dump"
Just relax and let your ideas begin to flow. Write down
everything down
that occurs to you - no matter how "impossible" or unusual these ideas
seem. Your immediate job is to let your brain do an "idea dump" and to
capture it on paper for later evaluation.
The reason this method works so well is that your subconscious mind is
actually a giant storehouse of thoughts and ideas - all floating around
just below your conscious awareness. All of your "hunches" or
"intuitions" bubble up directly from the vast resource of your
subconscious mind.
4. Analyze Your Material
The last thing to do is playfully analyze your materials.
Look for
unique combinations or unusual insights. And most of all, look for how
it all ties together into a single answer. Nine times out of ten you're
going to get a creative new insight.
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article © 2004 All Rights Reserved - provided courtesy
of author -
Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler, Pioneer brain/mind researcher -
see her site: Quantum-Self
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