Increasing Creativity
As you ponder your vision for your life and determine the best course to achieve it, you will need some creative ways of thinking and facing challenges that will arise. The most innovative people out there will encourage you to think outside your box and to consider even the wildest of ideas.
One way to do this is to carry out “Spontaneous Extrapolation.” This can be done by writing down EVERY idea, insight and awareness that occurs to you about the situation you’re facing. Do NOT evaluate your ideas or insights – just write them down. Do NOT consider something “ too silly” or “too dumb” to write down – just write it down! Don’t look for the right answer, a result or a completion.
Assess your ideas later, but not when you’re writing them down. Consider these ideas much like a newborn baby. You must cradle that baby and hold it lovingly and help it grow to a responsible adult. The same goes for your new ideas. You might find that one idea you would consider to be the “silliest” turns out to be your key for unlocking the door you’re facing.
The key to “Spontaneous Extrapolation” is to stop trying to create a predictable result in your life, instead be open and willing to have something that is so far beyond anything you have ever imagined. Anything that you ever thought was possible. You have to walk outside the universe to have a life that encompasses everything and everyone. Every choice has to be not about a conclusion. A choice is just a choice. You must stop trying to look for the rightness of the choice. If you have no point of view or conclusion or judgment you could choose to do anything.
Conclusion and judgment create limitation instead of possibility. Please recognize that when you make a conclusion or judgment nothing that does not match that can come into your awareness or reality or life. It’s not an expansive place from which to function, but it is a choice you can make if you want. Another way to increase your creativity is to be willing to receive everything without judgment. When you are willing to receive everything without having a point of view about it you will have awareness that gives you access to receiving every piece of information you need about everything. And you will find new ways of looking at things and thinking about situations, as well.
Increasing creativity is the willingness to be aware of everything without having to categorize it, structure it, give it form or significance. Power of awareness is the power to receive everything without judgment. Awareness is the source for the possibility to create from and to have things to manifest in your life with ease. And if you are willing to be aware, then you have no desire or fixed point of view from where any of it can come and you open up to the infinite possibilities of everything being there for you.
Remember the guy who came up with the idea for Post-It Notes? The adhesive was discovered long before they found a use for it—and the person who said, “Let’s make some note pads that are small and can be easily removed,” was laughed at. But now—do you even see ONE office without Post-Its around? I have at least 6 pads of Post-Its in my desk drawer alone. There’s one in the kitchen, and one in the car.
To increase creativity you have got to get to the point where everything is about the choices you make. It’s never refusing something and expecting it to come in a different package. It’s the willingness to see it as it is and receive it totally and then move with it.
You may find, as I do, that when I’m working on an activity that I truly love, I free up a portion of my brain that allows me to function from strategic awareness. When that happens, I typically find insight and new possibility to my dilemma. What if we chose to function from strategic awareness at all times?
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