Use Your Imagination

Use Your Imagination

Before Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps races competitively, he visualizes himself winning the race and adapting to different competitive circumstances during the race. Inventor Thomas Edison, who created the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and many other electrical innovations, used to sit in his chair and daydream for several hours a day.  He used his ability to inquire and to imagine without restrictions.  World renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung pretended to live with centaurs, gods and goddesses and enjoyed dialogueing with them. He wrote over forty books on psychology which are still widely read. These are a few ways in which we can use our imagination to stimulate new ideas, insights and inventions.

            In The Purple Bowtie, when main character Lisa Robertson meditates, she discovers that she can extract words and images from her dreams, such as beautiful nature landscapes, music, song lyrics and poems.  When she suddenly falls down the rabbit hole into an altered state of consciousness, she explores new, vibrant corridors of her imagination.  Suddenly, she is capable of writing in many styles, with words flowing automatically, opening a new age of creativity and inspiration. It is as if her imagination is a radio receiver that picks up different creative signals or channels. Lisa wants to be able to transmit as well.  She works with energy states and the third eye to see if she can communicate the images in her head to animals and dolphins. She begins to see that the study of telepathy could be a catalyst to unite all of us as artists and creatives. As we discover and explore our innate, imaginative and telepathic abilities, we create a new world of imagination through brain-to-brain communication. 

            Give permission to your creativity. Don’t deny it. How do you use your imagination? Do you have a passion, like a sport or an activity that inspires you?  Do you daydream? Do you have fantasies, romantic or otherwise?  Do images or ideas pop into your head as insights? Do you like to act or paint, write songs or song lyrics and poetry? Actively visualize yourself accomplishing great things?

In the weeks and months to come, I would like to open a dialogue about inspiration, creative visualization, insight, invention, daydreaming, fantasy and utopian visions.  Along with celebrating all creative people including artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, sports stars and engineers who use their imagination in extraordinary ways, we’ll be talking about ways to tap into and spark our creativity. What if we all could become creative geniuses? Imagine!

 Let me know how you tap into your imagination. Tweet me at@purplebowtie1 or send me a post a Facebook.