Don’t Control Your Thoughts

Ok, so I know I am now doing a complete volte-face and contradicting what I said yesterday about controlling your thoughts but I’m allowed to do that because it’s my Blog.

Whereas I do believe you need to be aware of what you are thinking especially all that nasty insidious stuff that can make you feel miserable and drag you down I also think that you need to let your thoughts run sometimes.

If you have ever had the fun of working with a group of creative people you will know what I mean when I say they can be unpredictable at best and close to sheer lunacy at worst. There are no bad ideas in that kind of environment, just ideas that haven’t yet been fine-tuned or have not found their niche in life. You never hear people shouted down for something that seems on the surface preposterous because they know that computers were once ridiculous as were MRI’s and mass produced motor cars and not forgetting that nobody would ever pay $4 for a cup of coffee or want to hang a TV on their wall, right?

Creativity is to some extent a gift but it can also be worked at. If you have been brought up in an atmosphere where unusual opinions were frowned on or even worse, ridiculed, then you may well have ‘learned’ to bottle up your cretivite juices.

Well how about uncorking them again?

Wouldn’t it be great to have a stream of ideas flowing through your consciousness just ready to be plucked from their relative obscurity and used to make your life better?

If you would like to do that, here is the key.

If you are a regular reader it may be time to get ready to roll your eyes as for the gazzilionth time as I bang on about a form of meditation.

So here’s the deal. Grab yourself 30 minutes and prepare to relax, if you can’t manage 30 minutes, 20 will do and if you can’t spare 20 minutes what the heck are you doing reading this Blog?

I’m not going to tell you how to relax as there are a number of different ways and what ever is best for you is best for you. I like progressive relaxation, which involves relaxing the muscles groups in turn starting at either the top and working down or at the bottom and working up and going through the entire body.

When you are completely chilled to the bone simply let your mind wander. Observe your thoughts but do not judge them. It may help to keep a journal handy so when that earth-shattering idea makes it’s way into your mind and then you see it heading for the exit again you can write it down before you forget it. You can always relax again but c’mon how many brilliant ideas do you want from each session you’re getting this for free you know?

That is about as complicated as any of this gets, don’t force anything, simply lie there and see what happens when you let your creative unconscious have a bit more freedom to run riot. And yes, you can do the same thing nodding off at night as long as you keep the journal handy. I cannot tell you how many ideas that I have had that I just knew were going to make me a million bucks last thing at night only to find that they had snook off into the nether reaches of my mind by the morning never to be heard of again. I’m sure I invented flip flops, and the internal combustion engine as well as discovering superstring theory and that was just one Saturday night a few years ago after a few beers so heaven knows what else I have done and forgotten about.

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