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These Activities Will Help You Hone Your Imagination!
Our imagination is something that many of us feel the need to ‘grow out of’ as we get older. The insinuation is that imagining is something that only children should be doing, and that as we acquire responsibilities, we need to come back to the ‘real world’. In fact though, imagination has a lot of […]
Enhance Your Creativity and Imagination by Removing This One Cognitive Bias
A cognitive bias is a ‘flaw’ in your thinking. This is any type of inaccuracy that our brains make on a large scale, due to the way they’ve evolved and the experiences that we’ve all gone through. Generally, this comes down to our brain’s preference for efficiency and the resulting attempts to take shortcuts. Different […]
How to Get Better at Visualization
Visualization is a Magical Key One key component of imagination is visualization. This is the ability to picture something in our mind and to actually see what it looks like. While you can certainly be creative without having great visualization skills, they also undoubtedly help when it comes to picturing people and places that don’t […]
The Neuroscience of Creativity and Invention
Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Creativity Creativity often seems like something mystical or magical. Sometimes, it can feel as though creativity doesn’t even come from us, but rather, that it descends upon us in a blinding flash of light or a lightning bolt. But creativity is far from magical. In fact, it can be boiled down […]
Injecting Imagination in Your Daily Life
Your Imagination Every Day The first thing that comes to mind when we think of imagination is its entertainment value. I think of things like daydreaming and fictional stories. It’s something that we separate from our daily work lives and tasks we have to do where we need complete focus. In other words, imagining is […]
Five Effective Ways to Get Inspiration
Lost for inspiration? Here are five techniques you can use to try and coax something new and exciting out of your brain! They won’t always work but try them out and you might just be surprised at how effective they can be. Go for a WalkWalks have always been inspiring for a number of reasons. […]
The Body-Mind-Spirit Connection and the Chakras
The understanding of the connection between body, mind and spirit has been known in the Far East for millennia, but has only recently come to the West. Traditional forms of medicine such as the Ayurvedic (EYE-your-VEE-dik) from India, Qigong (CHEE-gung) from China and Reiki (RAY-key) from Japan are all based on the connection between the […]
What Creative Visualization is Not
Living a full, productive, satisfying life is something that we all hope for. If we are parents, we hope our children will attain this as they grow. If we are getting older, and we look back on our lives, it is what we hope to see.
The Miracle of Creative Visualization
How do you intend to use creative visualization? A great majority of people utilize it to obtain material possessions. Of course, there’s not a thing wrong with this, but what you may not know is that creative visualization allows for the manifestation of much more than simple objects!
Meditating to Balance Your Chakras
We can used meditation or guided imagery to tune and balance our chakras, the energy centers of our body that store different kinds of powerful energy that can help us transform our lives. Picture the red root chakra at the bottom of your spine. Image it is a round red light twirling like a record […]