Fount of all Creativity
Whether it’s as a writer, a painter, an inventor, a computer programmer, an artisan or a file clerk, one is amazed when one takes time to focus and allow the subconscious mind, the creative mind instead of the intellect to take first position.
When I do write and allow the focus, a state of trance akin to hypnosis and resembling being in the zone, an unseen hand and mind do the writing. When this happens the writing flows. As a hypnotherapist I recognize this as emanating from the subconscious (referred to as the unconscious by psychiatrists). It is the mind that Einstein referred to as the brilliant mind, gently chastising, a bit obliquely, that we think too much of the intellect, which is a mere compendium of learned facts and data usually acquired second-hand and often referred to as education.
Recent research and study at the University of British Columbia is now coming around to the idea that daydreaming is a good thing, that despite the bad rap daydreaming usually gets, letting the mind wander [elementary school teachers to the contrary opinion] activates the brain’s “executive network” usually reserved for high level thinking and solving complex problems.
Daydreaming nurtures our creativity - hotwires our imagination; the result is often magic in the form of books, inventions etc. I wonder how much daydreaming J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series did before she created her characters. Perhaps we can get a clue In her address to a Harvard graduating class a few years ago. In the stunning speech she crowned and elevated imagination as the zenith of man’s activities, calling it a “wondrous ability to envision that which is not and the fount of all invention and innovation.”
Pretty good, huh. Best thing about it is we all have an imagination. So go for your zenith, why don’t you.
So go ahead daydream, turn such dross into spun gold. Your future awaits you as your own personal alchemist.