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BOOST CREATIVITY WITH VISUALIZATION
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Divergent Thought and Creativity
Achieving Creative Flow Boost and Reignite Creativity
Creativity and Visualization
The Neuroscience of Creativity
INHALE POSSIBILITY > EXHALE CREATIVITY
Creative visualization is the cognitive process of purposefully generating visual mental imagery. The purpose is for simulating or recreating visual perception in order to transform those images, modifying your thoughts, emotions or feelings, and experience a beneficial boost to your creativity resulting in bigger and better ideas.
For you to benefit from this process of creative visualization, you must be capable of or susceptible to absorption, which is an "openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences”.
Creative visualization involves your passive, "daydreaming" imaginative ability and also active visualization, where you direct what you are imagining. The passive is great for curiosity, wandering, exploring, or playing. The active form is for when you have already gotten a hold a of a dream, idea or goal and you want to develop, rehearse and realize.
If you have a vision for your project, spend time imagining the specifics of what you want to create and then practice it in your mind repeatedly until you can experience the feeling of it happening now. Strive to involve all your senses in the imagining. This develops capacity, skill and focus. The repetition will trigger your RAS Reticular Activation System which is a powerful prioritizing process in our brain. Once activated, you will begin to notice opportunities and resources that will help lead you to implementation of your vision.
Anyone can develop or reconnect to their ability to imagine, the basis for creative visualization. Here is another strategy, if you can't seem to conjure an image in your mind let yourself begin with a smaller idea. Then gradually expand from there, incorporating other sense experiences and images from memories. You will be able to add the imaginary, made up part, a piece at a time.
HOW TO DO IT
Start to visualize, imagine, feel or picture what you want.
Creative visualization is the cognitive process of purposefully generating visual mental imagery. The purpose is for simulating or recreating visual perception in order to transform those images, modifying your thoughts, emotions or feelings, and experience a beneficial boost to your creativity resulting in bigger and better ideas.
For you to benefit from this process of creative visualization, you must be capable of or susceptible to absorption, which is an "openness to absorbing and self-altering experiences”.
Creative visualization involves your passive, "daydreaming" imaginative ability and also active visualization, where you direct what you are imagining. The passive is great for curiosity, wandering, exploring, or playing. The active form is for when you have already gotten a hold a of a dream, idea or goal and you want to develop, rehearse and realize.
If you have a vision for your project, spend time imagining the specifics of what you want to create and then practice it in your mind repeatedly until you can experience the feeling of it happening now. Strive to involve all your senses in the imagining. This develops capacity, skill and focus. The repetition will trigger your RAS Reticular Activation System which is a powerful prioritizing process in our brain. Once activated, you will begin to notice opportunities and resources that will help lead you to implementation of your vision.
Anyone can develop or reconnect to their ability to imagine, the basis for creative visualization. Here is another strategy, if you can't seem to conjure an image in your mind let yourself begin with a smaller idea. Then gradually expand from there, incorporating other sense experiences and images from memories. You will be able to add the imaginary, made up part, a piece at a time.
HOW TO DO IT
- Get in the right mindset. Creative Visualization is best used when you are truly relaxed and feel positive but it can also be used to help you relax and feel positive.
- Begin by creating a nice environment: perhaps putting on some uplifting music (without vocals, since they can distract the mind), or maybe doing some light stretching or taking a bath or shower first.
- Next try meditating or relaxing for a couple minutes.
- Breathe consciously and perhaps a little more deeply than normal.
Start to visualize, imagine, feel or picture what you want.
- We are all different, so some of us will find it easier to start with feeling and some of us will find it easier to start by picturing. However you begin, continue until you can see and feel to some degree what you want happening the way you want it to happen.
- It is important not to try to control the visualization too much - in fact you might find that it interacts with you, and each time you do it, it gets better or easier to picture more or a better outcome or flow of events.
- Try to focus on visualizing what you are doing especially, since that is truly what we have the most control over.
- Do this daily or nightly for a good amount of time.Try to continue practicing creative visualization regularly to get the most out of it
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