Where do Creative Thoughts and Ideas Come From?

Now we’re thinking. It’s easy to describe our in-the-box thoughts because when we want to analyze or judge our Ideas we’re very comfortable ‘holding’ those thoughts in our conscious minds and mentally working through:

❔ Do I like it? Answer yes or no
❔ Will we do it? Answer yes or no

But most of us have experienced the blinding rush of a fresh thought or Idea quite literally ‘popping’ into our minds. It didn’t herald itself that it was on the way, we didn’t diarise it, we weren’t necessarily ready for it but there you go - a fresh thoughtful Idea makes itself known. And it usually does it in such a way as to ‘crowd out’ all others; creative thoughts are often very powerful. They must be like boss-thoughts or something in that they periodically beat all others!

We notice these creative thoughts mentally - but they are different to the everyday noise and mental chatter in that they often manifest through our senses:

☁️ Its as if sometimes we hear them
☁️ It’s as if sometimes we see them in our mind's eye
☁️ It’s as if sometimes we feel them as a physical sensation on our skin, in our guts, or as energy moving within and various combinations thereof.

Therefore there must be some kind of place away from the usual mental monkey chatter everyday thinking, that operates like a creative reservoir for new thoughts and Ideas...

🧶 That can take new bits of information
🧶 Add to what we know already
🧶 And create fresh ‘new’ thoughts and ideas

This ‘place’ must be able to bundle up all of this into brand-new original leaps of thought and make itself known to us in ways we notice.

If all this happens to us at those random, spontaneous moments when we have experienced brilliant new Ideas (and I know you have), then perhaps we can understand it more deeply so that we can use it to help develop our capacity for this to happen more often.

Or indeed plan for it to knowingly happen when we need it.

The cool thing is we can.

It’s called the 4 Brain States. 

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