We readily consider ourselves creatures of habit. We sit at the same desk or lunch table. We follow the same morning routine. We follow the same bedtime ritual. However, we do not stop to consider our habitual mental thoughts. We apply our habits solely to the physical aspects of our lives and are oblivious to our repeated daily mental thoughts. It is the repeated mental thoughts that produce our daily physical habits, but we are unaware.
It is the patterned thinking that we need to break away from for the real change to occur. Our imaginations have been stymied as a result. Remember those 60,000 thoughts a day we had? Recall, 95% of what we think are yesterday’s thoughts? Your imagination produced those redundant thoughts. You struggle with fresh new ideas, concepts, inventions, or change because you are imagining the same things over and over.
These cyclical thought patterns grip us. For many of us, the last time we allowed our minds to have a truly fresh thought was during childhood. At some point during adolescent, our creativity was discouraged. We adopted the belief that imaginative thought belonged in the world of a child. Certainly our employers want imaginative employees. However, only along the lines of what they want you to create for them. While you might consider yourself a thinker, at work for example, you lack imagination in other areas where focus is lacking.
Without an exercised imagination, our thoughts stagnate into cyclical patterns. We are all capable of achieving much more than we currently do. It is only because we feel powerless and lacking that we pursue so little. When we connect to the real power source of our imagination, the lack and the feelings of powerlessness will subside.
You need to learn to use your minds potential by allowing your thoughts to trail pausing to concentrate not on your usual thoughts but thoughts that are atypical to you. Atypical does not mean undisciplined. Atypical means pushing your thoughts in directions you are not accustomed to.
Until diligence is employed your current thoughts will plague you. Change requires effort. As a child, you employed great effort learning to stand up and walk, hold your spoon to feed yourself, and tie your shoes. You concentrated heavily on these tasks until they were achieved. As an adult, you abandoned your diligent thinking in favor of more structured thoughts requiring much less mental effort. You checked your imaginative thinking in at the door of adulthood.
You did this at the same time that your limiting beliefs structured walls around you. As you were told to stop dreaming, or you’ll never be able to do that, or so few people ever become one of those, or why would you bother with such silly ideas you stopped building your aspirations within your mind. Beliefs formed that confined your thoughts to those that you think are appropriate within the belief.
You free your imagination by entertaining a multitude of thoughts just as you would exercise your leg through physical therapy after an injury. Allow time daily to explore fresh thoughts. Pick a quiet spot and a random topic and allow your thoughts to trail off. Do not allow your beliefs to give value to your thoughts.
Exercising your imagination will bring forth a heightened awareness of it. Frequent use will reward you with markedly fresh ideas. When you are presented with challenges, frequenting the realm of your imagination will help you solve your dilemmas. The key is the ability to summon up an endless supply of thoughts.
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