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Easy Lessons to Boost Your Creative Imagination

31 January 2008 2 Comments

Isaac Newton : “If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”

Creative imagination is much more than just your imagination. To be capable to actively envisage things, to see and hear things in one’s mind, is an essential ability. Creative imagination, then, has to include the ability not just to envisage things, but also to envisage original things. It is seeing things that others do not see and coming up with new ideas and things.

How can improve this creative imagination?

Start by exercising your basic imagination. This can be as simple as thinking in pictures more, or listening to music in your mind. Start playing little movies in your mind, until you can watch them on command. It is a easy process, but for those of us that cannot easily do it naturally, it can take a lot of practice.

The next step to developing more creative imagination is to get extra creative in your thinking and imagining. This can be as easy as paying attention to your creativity, because our subconscious minds give us more of what we pay attention to. When you ignore creative aspects of your life, you are telling your subconscious they are unimportant, but if you notice when you are creative, your subconscious mind will start feeding you more creative ideas.

Permit your ideas run wild. Does a flying bed seem silly? It could lead to the concept of a helium mattress. When you get off it in the morning, it floats out of the way, up to the ceiling. Perfect for small apartments. Do not repress your creativity. Relax, and let ideas come. You can always discard them later.

Start thinking about writing a story, think of a plot, think up characters for the story, take notes and expand the story over a period. Refine and change the story if you want to. Take your time, new ideas will pop out of your subconscious as you think about it. It is your creation you can do anything you want with it, use you imagination.

Develop your interests and natural talents and gifts – follow these talents – be curious, learn as much as you can about subjects you are interested in and then improvise, develop, expand them. Follow different off beat paths.

Make upon the ideas of other people – improve and refine their ideas. It is the fundamental reason for human progress. It created the Mind of mankind (the vast network of human minds that continually spread ideas across time and place).