Whether you believe you have a creative imagination or not, you have the ability to be just as creative as anyone else. The difference between your creativity and the perceived creativity of another is the repetitive use of the imagination.
See your imagination like a muscle that you must exercise in order to get the juicy ideas. The more you practice using your imagination, the easier, clearer and more creative your imagination becomes.
So we develop our imaginations by using it more!
Every morning I complete something called a “Gratitude Diary” which I use to write down a list of everything I am grateful for that day. This simple process has helped to increase my imagination tenfold because I set myself a task of completing an entire page before I go onto other things.
When I review what I’ve written in my gratitude diary there is often a clear progressive thought pattern emerging. It’s like the first item links to the second item, and the second item links to the third, and so on.
If I was to ask you to think of a candle and tell me other thoughts that you have around a candle, you may answer by saying wax, flame, flickering, white, etc. Your imagination works from the food (thoughts) that you feed it.
Abraham Hicks has told us that if we focus on a thought for as little as 17 seconds, the Law of Attraction will bring you another similar thought that you did not have access to previously. This is exactly what happens every morning when I complete my gratitude diary. I start off and focus for a few seconds until another thought ‘pops’ into my mind!
Anyway, I use a very simple technique to focus my imagination and to acquire new ideas that I would like to share with you. Let’s say I’m searching for an idea of a new article to write about, first I grab a sheet of paper and write my point of attention in the middle. So in this example, I would write “Law of Attraction Article” (point of attention) in the middle of that piece of paper. I then focus on that subject and begin to write words around the point of attention that I currently have access to in my head.
In this example I may begin to write things like… gratitude, energy, the secret, etc.
Within just few short seconds of doing this and holding my attention on this subject, new ideas spring into my mind as if by magic. These are the new similar thoughts that the Law of Attraction has yielded to me. Although those ideas were already in my mind somewhere, I didn’t have access to them until I began to focus!
This is an extremely powerful and quick method to gain new ideas and insights with very little effort at all. Why not give it a try yourself!
I’ve prepared a hand out that you can use to develop your imagination in the same way as I have documented here. Just click on the link below to view the PDF document.
cynthia, August 22, 2007: