A Secret of Manifestation?

Stepping out of our ordinary reality--as we do, for example, by traveling in a foreign country--enables us to escape our self-established mental limitations. That's an important ability. When we are able to admit to ourselves, first of all, that we have blindspots, we have made a beginning in opening up to a different view of things. Although it doesn't automatically remove the obstacles and solve problems, this does give us at least a hint of possibility that we can perhaps have access to something new in our lives--that we move beyond the limitations spontaneously. It occurs to me that a secret of manifestation is to be in an open and uncommitted mindset for a period of time long enough that it allows something to emerge from new perceptions and information that arise in consciousness. Sages surely have recognized this for millennia, but every person nonetheless must learn it for himself or herself. Stepping out of our habitual path and behvior patterns by choice or by necessity gives us a chance to experieice this phenomenon and then we know that we can create it also. We go from spontaneity to being in charge of spontaneity. More on this later. It's a simple musing. I guess I am on a search now for something that can lead me to a richer creative process. I want to establish a deeper layer in my work.