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"Creative imagination" techniques are some of the least well known for setting life goals. However the truth is that techniques are some of the most effective for opening a dialogue between the Logical and Creative minds.

The 'Creative Mind' is where all our inner desires and genuine aspirations in life come from. The planning mind or 'Logical Mind' on the other hand is a rationalization of life goals based on what we believe we:

• Should do
• Must do
• Can or can't do

The work that I've undertaken with the creative mind has caused me to have a think about who said: we have to plan and strategize goals using just the logical mind. To suggest quite the opposite: Each of us has the power to be able to use all of our mental resources to transfer inner aspirations into tangible, achievable and realistic life goals.

Behind each aspect of our imagination lies a deeper insight into who we are and how we desire to express our inner being to others.

In our world it's common to dismiss imagined qualities as fantasies and distorted perspectives on the world. Therefore we might take our 'should' and 'shouldn't' mindset along for the ride. This is the case a lot of the time when aiming to translate imagined outcomes into tangible goals.

This is where it is easiest to lose track of the process and become fed up with the results — because we are attempting to frame the logical mind around the creative mind to set goals in alignment with the inner self. In truth this is not the best technique to go about it.

Creative Imagination Exercise

Instead I recommend letting the imagination go where it wants to go without attempting to understand or rationalise it. Your imagination being as unrestricted as possible when thinking about the future will produce some interesting results.

Imagine Your Ideal Future Environment 2 Years from Now:

• Imagine that income is not a factor
• Imagine that time isn't a factor
• Imagine that people who could be present are not factors
• Imagine that this ideal future is unrestricted in all possibilities

The goal of this exercise is to produce a mental image or a mental movie clipbold without reference to the present limitations of the world.

Letting the creative mind explored these unrestricted possibilities sets our mental energies into action. However if after 10 minutes of creative imagining we don't go to the next step it's not uncommon to become frustrated with the process and to begin labelling it as pipedream and nothing more.

Translating Creative Power Into Proactive Behaviour

Instead at this point it's important to recognize that the creative mind is over 100 times more powerful than our logical mind — but planning and organisation are not faculties that are within its reach.  However each image that we imagine in our minds has great meaning behind it. No imagined thing is ever just a superficial thought-form — all imagination arises from a deeper place within and is connected to something genuine and meaningful.

The one question to ask at this point is "what's driving this ideal future image?" Consider what's behind it, where did it come from? How does it feel to be looking at it.

Extract the core feelings and personal reactions from the imagined future state and translating the outcome into tangible goals begins to look a lot easier. It's not uncommon to begin reacting or judging the creative mind for fuelling illusions. But that's not what it's doing after all. Rather our creative mind speaks to us all the time in a language that few people are able to hear.

Once we become attuned to listening to it each of the qualities that imagination offers can be seen with the actual meaning that lies behind them.

There are several boxes we keep un-opened in our lives. These are things that we want to be true but are afraid to leap into just in case we're proven wrong.

Most of us know in our heart of heart's what it is we want out of life – our dreams and core goals. However most of also distort how clear the path to those goals is. It's easier to put them in a box.

If there's a 'closed box' about something in our lives then that thing becomes 'off limits' to us. Or so it seems.

Or so it seems.

I'm going to make this post a little abstract because sometimes we need to let go of our certainties to get to the core truth of things. That sounds a bit ironic. Doesn't it? Let me have a go at explaining what I mean.

I'm going to allude to something called "Schroeder's Cat" – a philosophical puzzle that states we cannot know something in fact without opening the door and seeing it for ourselves.

Schroeder's Cat is an age-old philosophical puzzle most well defined as:

Schroeder's Cat

If You Take Schroeder's cat and place that cat in a solid box (our senses cannot penetrate this box) – and we ask the question "is the cat alive? Does it exist inside the box?" The answer is: it is neither alive nor is it dead.

In fact the cat does not exist at all – until the box is opened and we can have a human experience of its state. If this is true – what have we misunderstood? The answer is: Because 'alive' and 'exist' are defined as human experiences and these states cannot be separated from the human experience of them.

from inexpressible.com

Most of us have dead cats and living cats in our experience: things we believe won't work out and things we believe are absolute — without an ounce of firshand experience to be sure of either.

Leave Your Illusions at The Door

Stop wondering what's inside the box, and open it.

Some of us spend our entire life on one path with our passion and true dreams in a box we hold on our backs along the road — opening it just as we get to the end.

Sometimes the fear that what's inside the box has real promise is frightening enough to compel us to keep it closed until we're old enough to know "that ship has sailed" for good.

The bottom line: It's not worth it. If You Have unopened boxes, unexplored dreams and aspirations, or un-achieved goals then attend to them Now rather than later (because the secret is that 'later' is signpost to a place that doesn't exist).

There is said to be a secret underground organization that can predict how someone will act in advance. This organization uses the data from millions of street and network cameras in countries around the world to map and predict human behaviour.

Is this true? Does such an organization exist? For this topic it's not important – what is important is the following question:

If Someone Has a Recording Of 60-80 Hours or More of Your Behaviours (E.g. Driving … walking into shops … etc. the common places that are videotaped) Then How Much Could That Person Predict Your Future Behaviour?

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Each of us takes on two different lives. The first, our current life that we see as being realistic and a part of our core-being, and the second, a part of us that imagines and dreams for something that seems outside of the possibilities we have in front of us.

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