Audacious Creativity Technique #3: Living from the Future
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Want to wake up in the morning ready to create? Practice visualization before bed at night. Before sleeping, spend five minutes imaginatively living through the specific experience of seeing your highest priority creative goal as "mission accomplished." Repeat the same procedure night after night, and watch the scene evolve.
The human brain thinks in pictures, while the human memory is intimately linked to emotions. If you can combine the excitement of success with the mental picture of a future accomplishment, that picture becomes a real memory to you. And anything you can remember, you can study and repeat. The brain perceives a real event, a movie of an event, and a visualization of an event as being one and the same. Thus, you can build confidence just as easily by imagining success as through actual success.
If you practice this technique every night for about a month, you'll notice that the scene you create becomes extremely detailed and vivid. Not only the pictures related to the scene, but also the sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations connected with having reached your intended goal will become realer. Purposefully link the sensory aspects of the scene to your emotions and you'll reinforce the benefits. The neural networks you establish will be highly motivating, and useful, to your writing process.
From that ideal future scene, you can imagine backwards. Ask yourself--or even another character in the scene--how did I get here? Let answers come to you, and be receptive to them. Your brain is very active on an unconscious level--perhaps more so than you are aware. By giving it an opportunity to communicate with you in any style it likes it will begin to send messages floating up into your conscious awareness. From then on, your job is to interpret the "advice" and choose a course of action.
By doing this simple practice daily, you are instructing your mind that you find your creative project and everything related to it to be worthy of attention. Your brain will begin to bring you support from everything it perceives in the world. And, if you take action based on the advice you get, you'll be surprised at how quickly you create.
Want to wake up in the morning ready to create? Practice visualization before bed at night. Before sleeping, spend five minutes imaginatively living through the specific experience of seeing your highest priority creative goal as "mission accomplished." Repeat the same procedure night after night, and watch the scene evolve.
The human brain thinks in pictures, while the human memory is intimately linked to emotions. If you can combine the excitement of success with the mental picture of a future accomplishment, that picture becomes a real memory to you. And anything you can remember, you can study and repeat. The brain perceives a real event, a movie of an event, and a visualization of an event as being one and the same. Thus, you can build confidence just as easily by imagining success as through actual success.
If you practice this technique every night for about a month, you'll notice that the scene you create becomes extremely detailed and vivid. Not only the pictures related to the scene, but also the sounds, smells, tastes, and sensations connected with having reached your intended goal will become realer. Purposefully link the sensory aspects of the scene to your emotions and you'll reinforce the benefits. The neural networks you establish will be highly motivating, and useful, to your writing process.
From that ideal future scene, you can imagine backwards. Ask yourself--or even another character in the scene--how did I get here? Let answers come to you, and be receptive to them. Your brain is very active on an unconscious level--perhaps more so than you are aware. By giving it an opportunity to communicate with you in any style it likes it will begin to send messages floating up into your conscious awareness. From then on, your job is to interpret the "advice" and choose a course of action.
By doing this simple practice daily, you are instructing your mind that you find your creative project and everything related to it to be worthy of attention. Your brain will begin to bring you support from everything it perceives in the world. And, if you take action based on the advice you get, you'll be surprised at how quickly you create.
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